Posted on 03/23/2017 10:41:07 AM PDT by w1n1
If youre a grunt and seeing an A-10 Warthog flying over your head its a pretty awesome feeling. When a grunt is in trouble, then it is a bless full sight.
In this sighting its a nice day in whatever Star Wars desert town basically in the middle of nowhere that these grunts had to patrol. This day no guns blazing, no bombs going off and this day things were chill.
If that wasn't enough, these grunts got treated to not one, but two Sic A-10 flybys. One went right up to them, banking very low over their position. The other was from further in the distance but did a nice dip before pulling out. Would have been nice to see some chaff flares deploying as the Warthogs do their pull out. Ok, we'll settle for the bad ass A-10 show here!
Got your back
No lift in that attitude, nothing but thrust keeping you alive. That close to the ground, oh man....!
I mentioned it to a senior friend who I play volleyball with and who happens to be retired from the base and he said they were likely arriving home from an overseas deployment......
Definitely nothing pretty about them, they kind of reminded me of slow, low flying pelicans..........LOL!
THAT’s no plane. The pilot is riding a live round, sitting on a shell, steering a propelled bullet! Wonderful!
Mountain Home AFB in Idaho had the EF-111 variants for several years. Back in the late '80s, I was driving to Bend, OR from Idaho to visit my grandmother. Mountain Home AFB in Idaho had the EF-111 variants.
Well, I was driving along at a fair clip in the middle of nowhere on Highway 20, when my radar detector went nuts. I could see for miles ahead, and there was nowhere for a cop to hide. I thought the detector was broken, then the sky got dark, then light real fast, then I heard the noise. Holy moly! That was a hoot. There were two of them and they had to be below 300'. They were definitely following the terrain. I about loaded my shorts when the noise followed the shadow. I was certainly happy they were ours.
could be- I think itm ight be- is that hte one that can be so high up it can’t be seen and still reign down hell on the enemy?
CAS, but can be a high-flyer. A real game-changer...
It shouldn't be btt, it should be BRRRRRRRRRRRT! :-)
lol
You do know that all A-10s have always had a virtually bulletproof titanium "bathtub" surrounding them?
Their greatest threat is ground fire. Google "A-10, barely making it back."
And many of those awesome pilots were (are) awesomely attractive chicks, if you'll pardon the expression.
I saw them attack some old tanks on a hill about three hundred yards out at A.P. Hill Army base. We heard some airplanes at some distance then silence and then BRAATTTT. Two of them and then they were gone.
Something you would never forget.
TRUE!
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