Why do boomers love this piece of shit so much? I'm glad Iran shot it out of the sky.
>>532352734it is kinda cool, but they usually send them in with little support, sometimes 2 of them, in 2026 they can get shot down easily
The >BRRRRRRŔRRRRRRRRRT meme. And boomers have never seen an actual war against an actual opponent so they think it's actually a decent plane
>>532352734>here is what the American regime wants you to think>why is it true>discuss>American on his usual VPN farmWhat are Eglin shills sliding, another pair of downed American terrorist aircraft?
>>532352734>Muh 30mm depleted uranium bulletsThe fan club of this plane is reddit
>>532352947Isn't it just that it's the last of the>real gun"ships"that actually played an important role (in it's day)So nostalgia for the battle field that was, against unmanned drone fights and humans mainly just being collateral greasy stains in the war effort.
Solely because they build the plane around the gun not the gun around the plane
>>532353020No just the target and a 100+ meter radius around it
>>532352734It's one use would've been strafing Soviet armoured columns trying to break through geographical chokepoints into Western Europe.It's a useless relic of the past, just like the boomers.
>>532353080In its day it never fought an actual war against an actual opponent.
>>532353185Inhalation Risk: The real danger occurs when the round hits a target and creates a cloud of fine DU dust. If inhaled or ingested, this dust is chemically toxic and can pose serious health risks, including potential kidney damage and increased cancer risk.Contamination: In regions like Iraq where DU was used extensively, there are reports of soil and groundwater contamination, though the U.S. government maintains there is no conclusive evidence linking it to specific health syndromes.The aircraft only faces potential contamination during firing: Gun Gas: When the GAU-8 cannon fires, it produces high-pressure gas and small amounts of metal particulates. While the A-10 is designed to vent these gases away from the cockpit, trace amounts of dust could theoretically settle on the airframe.
>>532352734It's a symbol of aerial supremacy from an age decades gone, in a time when you could drop napalm and cannon shells on backward peasants on the opposite side of the world with little to no danger of effective retaliation. It and the AC-130 gunship are quickly slipping out of effective usage and Iran will be their last gasp.Russia experienced something very similar in Ukraine with its Hind gunships. The proliferation of AA missile systems, even man portable Stingers, meant they were no longer viable as quick and dirty CAS. Ironically field artillery survived while gunships died.
>>532353269fuck off with the AI shitIf I want that i'd just google it myself
>>532353269so no worse than American food
>>532353230Subduing inferiors is still a thing.Even if it isn't a fair fight. In fact, not being a fair fight is what showed it as relevant still, back when.Same as using pic related against feather-niggers innit?
>>532353377Yea, pretty much.>>532353356Malding?
>>532353080I think it's really just boomer wunderwaffe
my personal theory is that it reminds them of Star (Onions) Wars flying vehicles
>>532352734Because its a plane that is only useful to mow down civilians in a land that you already occupy and control.It is a sitting duck that can be easily shot down, yet it is mowing down children and the occupied people can't do anything about it.... as they are civilians and not military.Its a power move.They want to see blood and death.
>>532352734I'm still hoping Trump will use them on No Kings and ICE protestors.
The thing was good in its time and designed to shred Soviet tanks and it would have easily done that, but tank wars are over.
>>532353080I can't think of a single time it was actually used in a battle as support or any important role.Their typical usecase was:>our MRAP got IEDed on that street in that village>send in the A-10 to mow down random civilians of that village as punishment
>>532352734Ok when used against a peasantry of rice farmers or goat herders in primitive backwaters.When up against a militarily powerful country like Iran who are more than capable of shooting you down, not so good.
>>532353399Sure. But when the people you believe are feather niggers start weilding artillery for the first time don't be surprised if you start losing equipment
>>532352734that plane terrorized Afghan villages. boomer are evil motherfuckers
>>532353337The whole concept of having something slowly fly circles in the sky to gun down things on the ground got BTFO.The same thing is happening with Reaper drones and with Byaktars (think about how much those got hyped in 2022, just to vanish from the battlefield immediately).
>>532352734White people love it because they are violent lunatics
>>532352734It's awesome and it's cool, no denying that.>inefficient use of an assetThat'll put anything in a bad spot. Nothing can do everything.Anyway, it's been weird seeing the US employ so many "strategies" that put troops in danger needlessly.
>>532353901This
>>532353716The A-10 was introduced 1972.At that time the Soviets had more than enough air defense to shoot those things out of the sky.It was never a useful platform. It was always a slow and sitting duck.It is specifically designed to mow down civilians in an already subdued country.The whole purpose of it is evil. So boomers love it.
>>532352734one of the worst planes ever. su-25 is 100 times better.
>>532354044Give me one scenario at any point in time of its existence, in which the A-10 would have been military significant.
>>532353967>The whole concept of having something slowly fly circles in the sky to gun down things on the ground got BTFO.As it should, and frankly I hope drone warfare follows. I fucking despise drones and everything they represent. They should be treated the same as nerve gas and biological weapons.
>>532354190True. It's a very good thing that this concept is gone.And i also think FPV drones will follow.It shouldn't be too hard to develop stuff that downs those little things. They get counteracted by simple cope cages already and have a hard time against EW, so it could be happening soon.All those evil concepts need to go.In a perfect world, where both sides of a conflict are honorable, they would agree not to use them, similar to how Hitler stopped the chemical weapon spam from WW1 to occur in WW2.But we are dealing with satanists here...
>>532352734I thought is was a ground support aircraft, only used for close air support?
>>532353337>in a time when you could drop napalm and cannon shells on backward peasants on the opposite side of the worldUSA lost over 10000 aircraft in Vietnam. I don't think that time ever existed.
>>532352734BRRRRRRRRRT
>>532354044>Anyway, it's been weird seeing the US employ so many "strategies" that put troops in danger needlessly.Our military doctrine is woefully outdated now as the technology gap closes between the first, second, and third worlds. We've run out of easy targets, and countries like Iran are growing more technologically sophisticated by the year. They have also been paying attention and taking notes while we stomp around the middle east struggling to root out insurgencies. Meanwhile the US has been stagnating, allowing its military industrial complex and become a bloated mockery of inefficiencies.>>532354434>But we are dealing with satanists here...Which is why it'll only truly change once they destroy themselves in their hubris. I have a sneaking suspicion that's happening as we speak.>>532354599I'd expect the majority of those were helicopters. Our air cavalry tactics were comically dangerous as the helicopter was just seeing its first use in war. Flying down into valleys with a dozen open doored helicopters, sometimes even bereft of door gunners or any weapons at all. Nobody does that shit anymore and for good reason.
because its never been used against a country that had MANPADS, so boomers think its an invincible super weapon that's gonna mow down entire columns of enemy units. in reality this thing wouldn't last five minutes in ukraine. ridiculously easy to shoot down. which is precisely what happened in iran as soon as it encounter the first mudshit with a MANPAD.
>>532352734Because it looks cool af with a shark mouth at the front and does BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRBut seriously, it's completely obsolete and a relic from an old era when US had complete tech dominance over everyone and US fighting other countries was like fighting nignogs with spears. Nowadays any shitass country can afford to buy russian/chinese radar/infrared mobile anit-aircraft missiles, and this plane is just asking for getting shot with how low, loud and massive radar signature it has. I'm surprised mutts even thought of using it against anyone in 2026, maybe maga retards still think that Murica #1 and nobody can touch them in 2026.
>>532354775looks like a lucky shot with some ancient soviet RPG can take that thing down
>>532354434FPV drones will get replaced by AI drones.Impossible to jam because they'll need no external signals.They will be able to land in an area and wait for weeks or months listening for audio signatures from vehicles.And once activated they can fly to the target in seconds.
>>532353741bro you were 5 during the iraq war. stop larping.
>>532352947>meme. And boomers have never seen an actual war against an actual opponent so they think it's actually a decent planethis
>>532352734It has a boomer feeling and design.
>>532354477That is exactly what it's designed to do, yes.The idea is: plane protects troops and troops protect plane.But Trump is retarded and thinks he can use them without the boots on the ground taking care of enemy air defenses.
>>532352734It's like a 1950's depiction of what a future combat plane would look, as opposed to the reality of unmanned drones intercepting targets from 30 miles.
>>532352734I'd like to have one to clear the highways in this shithole.
This thing would have been ideal during thr BLM riots
>>532352971You forgot to mention that is "was contructed around the GAU-8 cannon", dude. Always mention that. (Eventhough the prototype had a 20mm Vulcan)
>>532352971fpbp
>>532352734A-10 is completely represents baby boomers. The idea of this invincible, analog, vietnam era, attack gunship. But really it's obsolete, slow, and was designed and built by a company on Long Island that no longer exists because of deindustrialization.
>>532353230This. Much like the american F14s they saw very little action since vietnam was over by the time the two of them came out and by the gulf we had F15s and F16s.
>>532352734FUCK YOU. THIS IS A GEN X PLANE IF THERE EVER WAS ONE! IT DOESNT BOMB YOU FROM 6 MILES UP IT GETS IN YOUR FACE AND TELLS YOU TO FUCK OFF AND DIE! BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>532352734it's the biggest gun currently flying. you wouldn't get it, you're not american
>>532352734muh SOVIET TANK KILLA MAGIC BATHTUB BRRRRRAP propaganda
>>532358146Lol ok retard. It's ok retard. Keep beliebing retard shit about the cuck 10 herphog. Fact of the matter is, Iran is ass fucking America's outdated and shit military. And no amount of endless drivel spewing from your herpes infested mouth will change that simple and defining factIran wins, jewSA loses. LOL
>>532352734> Why do boomers love this piece of shit so much?Because the sound it makes is the same BRRRAAAP as their obese braphog makes when it braps, making it relatable
>>532358240What’s your KD? I’ll wait…
>>532352734The A10 wouldn't be a bad aircraft if the design changed. Remove the entire Vulcan assembly, replace it with an AEW pod, load the hardpoints up with APKWS II, and use it to knock drones out of the sky from high altitude.
>>532355971What do you think about this one?
>>532352734Why they still use this old piece of junk?I remember it was already useless and slow in air combat, and is almost 30 years ago game
>>532358770Obsolete 50 years ago.
>>532359096So…a boomer plane?
>>532359294We stopped flying them, these had tail and side gunners.
>>532352734It's actually a pretty good plane. It's the antithesis to modern wonder weapons, it's cheap, effective and reliable.
>>532353967>slowly fly circles in the sky to gun down things on the groundI'm just waiting for Trump to be stupid enough to put an AC-130 into Iranian airspace.
>>532352734It looks cool and sounds cool and it has a massive gun, what's not to like? Are you gay?
>>532352734I was on vacation in Northern Michigan on a river in a tube (really fuckin chill desu), and a few of these flew over on descent. The noise is something I can't describe. It was pretty cool. Psychologically, it buck broke some Iraqi PMFs into crying (not that I agree we should be strafing them). Given the ungodly amounts we spend on other gay shit, this seems like something we can afford to let continue.
>>532352734Pumbaa nooooooo...
>>532355190zog loyalists will never be patriots, boomer, and the rapture isn't going to save you
>>532353967>The same thing is happening with Reaper drones and with Byaktars (think about how much those got hyped in 2022, just to vanish from the battlefield immediately).They CAN work, but in areas with less dense AA coverage, you can't just bomb a country's capital with impunity, even Yemenis have anti air there.During the meme Kursk fuckaroo Russians successfully used comparable Orion heavy drones a lot because Ukrainian forces didn't have short range AA coverage there and were trying to ferry heavy equipment across the border
>>532352734Does the UK manufacture any better?
>>532352947As if Europeans have. They're afraid even to join your efforts with your full support let alone kicking us from the former Ukraine in 3 days.
>>532354044It's honestly trash against an enemy that has even modern Manpads.A10 is only good against AK-peasants and columns of unprotected vehicles.
>>532360862you don't decide anything and never will.
>>532361503k but your service to and for israel does not make you a patriot, glad we agree
>>532361218idk, soviet equivalent su-25 is still heavily used in onkraine.
>>532354434>>532355106somebody needs to invent EMPs already
>>532355106That is just a mine.Mines that wait in a distance and spring up and fire at vehicles on a road nearby already exist.And it may be easier to build an AI that automatically downs them than it is to build an AI that works within a single drone to control it.Remember that the controlling AI, if you want it to be autonomous, must run by that shitty chip that is inside the drone.The FPV age might be only temporary.Even right now, FPVs are mostly limited to finishing off stray infantry.Hohol FPV videos are felt 90% drone drops on single lonely guys, who might even be POWs or deserters.
>>532353269Oh so gulf war syndrome was our own satanic jew bullets the entire time. Knowing more about reality and the universes sense or humor this makes perfect sense. There has to be some creator force because the world is too funny to be on accident. Meme Magic.
>>532352734it's really good at turning arabs into aerosol.they should load those things up with DU rounds to provide the middleeasterners of abrahamic derivation with long term health benefits.
>>532354434>He thinks the cops cages did anythingFuture archaeologists will come to what will appear from space as just a giant ball of twine. They'll assume we set some kind of ai 3d printer to make fiber optic instead of paper clips.
>>53235273445 y/o and the planes of yesteryear were infinity more aesthetic than the bland computer designed clone-a-jet nonsense flying around today>Buccaneer>Vulcan>Tornado>Harrier>Phantom>F14>A10These are prime airframes, designed and built by men who chain smoked and beat their wives, for air and air to ground combat of another age. They were built to fly in their thousands at the end of Ages, when civilisations threw everything at each other for total destruction and death. Now polyqueer two-spirit beardless boys use computers to design planes so expensive a country might afford two, designed only to operate against mediaeval peasants armed with spears and bananas. Sad
>>532361641That plane can fly much faster and doesn't operate around using a close-range meme-gun.
>>532362687>doesn't operate around using a close-range meme-gun.it does and has similar gun/cannon.
>>532354068The idea was that heavy artillery and SEAD missiles would suppress Soviet air defense and the Soviet armor would outrun their air cover, then the A-10s and Apaches could all fire 600 hellfire ATGMs linked to the same network and an entire division’s worth of Soviet armor would be lost.This was all developed with the intention to use it in the Fulda gap of Germany.The Soviets having mechanized and armored divisions in abundance were imagined to be swift and decisive like the German Panzer divisions.The A-10 was thought up by planners going off of World War II.It makes sense when you look at it this way.America is like in Civilization or Age of Empires where you put your resources into military instead of progressing the tech tree.We have all the military upgrades and a huge military force, but we are still in the “WWII Age” as opposed to the post-cold war/drone age.Our military “style” or doctrine is all about taking what Germany did in 1940 and making it bigger and better. We haven’t actually innovated.In our defense, neither did anyone else, until Ukraine.
>>532362687>doesn't operate around using a close-range meme-gun.Mutt education
>>532362434Manned weapons in general are going out of style.Countries are so big and industry so strong they can throw ballistic weapons at each other perpetually.You don’t need me on the ground anymore.>only boots can control landWell not exactly. But no one is ready to go there.How did the mongols rule such a vast empire when their army was at most 80,000 men?They made the cost of defying them unplayable.You defied the Khan, your whole village, kingdom, race, kaput.And people lived in both fear and prosperity under the mongols.Despite them not having “boots on the ground” so to speak.
I'm from 1994 and always liked how different the A-10 looks.There's nothing quite like it.It's a slow lumbering piece of shit with weak engines and no mobility. The Lincoln Continental of the sky.The only performant element it has is the gun, and that's been outdated since 1980.Not to disrespect the ordnance at all, please DoW do develop a platform for the big brrrrt, but the A-10 itself is a fucking atrocious platform.It's one of those vehicles that requires air superiority in order to function, and other younger airframes do the CAS job better while also being able to establish said superiority.That's why A-10s are adored by boomers.A-10s ARE boomers.The younger planes do all the heavy lifting so the boomer can roll in with its mobility scooter and spend millions of credit rating on cheap plastic objects we don't need.
>>532363451>Manned weapons in general are going out of style.What are small drones?>How did the mongols ruleBy rule you mean "We'll come collect taxes sometimes". Look at your police, equipped with weapons most armies don't have. Are they not boots on the ground?
>>532363488Excellent take. Screenshotting this.
>>532352734because it is still god-tier in it's close air support role and has a fucking huge payload. also BRRRRRRRRRT
>>532362771A10 is built to loiter and Su25 is fast enough for hit and run. A10 is really fucking slow.Can't loiter if the enemy has dispersed manpads.
I don't understand why you retards think military equipment is invulnerable, it never was, never has been, and never will be.
>>532352734It’s an inferior version of the su25let them
>>532361207Nobody in the west wants to die for our economic zones after kikes killed all sense of nationality. The only reason why we were so gung ho about ukraine was they were doing the dying
>>532362148Peak unhinged /k/nigger derangement on full display
>>532354068>The whole purpose of it is evil. So boomers love it.I wanted to argue with you but I couldn’t debate this point. ChatGPT Haaaaalp!
>>532352734>Why do boomers love this piece of shit so much?it's literally a 30mm cancer spreading gatling gun with wings>answer is obvious
>>532352734Its not as overpriced garbage as the f35
literally everything is vulnerable when you have retards like Pete Hegseth and Trump running things. all equipment still needs competent leadership and commanders to put it to use.
>>532364821A-10’s have had some glorious battles. In iraq war there was a damaged A-10 that shot down a fighter jet in a dog fight bro. In open war desert tank or armored division level columns they would reaped havoc and did. But yeah Trump just likes the Brrrrrt meme from old Qtard threads. What is scary here is China purposely gave Iran manpads with dud warheads at first to warn Americans they could and would be able to target any 4th gen fighters we have with a shoulder fired missile.Now they are giving Iran manpads with actual payloads becoz our hubris and failure to realize this fact is now losing us planes. >muh temuShoulder fired missiles that can chase down F15’s, 16’s and 18’s is a game changer.
>>532360937>They CAN work, but in areas with less dense AA coverage, you can't just bomb a country's capital with impunity, even Yemenis have anti air there.first time since Vietnam USA is against somewhat competent and modern adversary >instantly...Too OP pls nerf>>532359786>I'm just waiting for Trump to be stupid enough to put an AC-130 into Iranian airspace.its a crew who accept death sentence like that so you could say>they voted for it
for me, it's militarized cropdusters
>>532352734Troops on the ground loved them because when you are taking heat there is NOTHING like the sound of a Warthog unloading depleted uranium rounds into your enemies. There is literally no better option for chewing through armor and bodies. Pilots love the thing because it can take serious damage and still get your ass home. Iran dropping one deserves respect.
