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US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt In Estonia: Amid Russian Hostility, Aircraft Arrive In The Baltics
International Business Times ^ | 09/22/15 | Christopher Harress

Posted on 09/22/2015 2:11:02 PM PDT by Enlightened1

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A-10C Thunderbolt II
1 posted on 09/22/2015 2:11:02 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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I thought this plane has outlived it's usefulness. </sarc>
2 posted on 09/22/2015 2:16:06 PM PDT by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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That plane is a flying Tank.


3 posted on 09/22/2015 2:17:38 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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10 min clip, Estonian film, “1944”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBDuO2zq1Zc

Awesome..!


4 posted on 09/22/2015 2:25:06 PM PDT by gaijin
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Yet very manuverable


5 posted on 09/22/2015 2:25:25 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Gamecock

Go Ugly Early.


6 posted on 09/22/2015 2:26:32 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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You forgot the sarcasm off...

Then again compared to a Tank yes. These planes are very slow.


7 posted on 09/22/2015 2:26:46 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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8 posted on 09/22/2015 2:27:46 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Which is why 11Bs like it!


9 posted on 09/22/2015 2:28:13 PM PDT by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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Yes I did...


10 posted on 09/22/2015 2:28:32 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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11 posted on 09/22/2015 2:30:10 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Here’s the thing about sending a message using the military. It must have credibility. When Reagan and Nixon threatened action, they put all the logistics and funding into place. When North Koreans shot a couple of US officers across the DMZ Nixon said he’d blow them back to the stone age. He ordered the entire Pacific fleet with logistics into a ready state and started deploying bombers with fuel and bombs. The North backed down instantly. When they similarly tested Obama he sent a letter. Obama’s red lines in the sand would have been effective if he’d moved the millions of dollars worth of equipment and thousands of personnel necessary into ready positions, but he didn’t so the red line had no credibility.

The Russian will know if this is a real threat based on the movement of logistics. My guess is it isn’t real. It’s more posturing. The only person fooled is Obama.


12 posted on 09/22/2015 2:37:27 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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“Slow” allows a tight turn and a pass strafing the ground again, several times, before the ammunition is spent. Not only the nose cannon, but various air-to-surface missiles, and cluster bomb loads, make this one of the most effective ground-support aircraft of the last fifty years.

And it still can take HUGE punishment and cripple home. The pilot flies another day.


13 posted on 09/22/2015 2:56:28 PM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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WTH are they doing in Estonian? They never will be used! They should have been in Syria months ago instilling fear into and killing ISIS terrorists!


14 posted on 09/22/2015 2:58:00 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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"WTH are they doing in Estonian? They never will be used! They should have been in Syria months ago instilling fear into and killing ISIS terrorists!"

It seems to me that Obama and his Democrats are determined to get the United States involved in some conflict with Russia.

15 posted on 09/22/2015 3:22:56 PM PDT by StormEye
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I concur.


16 posted on 09/22/2015 3:24:01 PM PDT by BBell
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WTH are they doing in Estonian? They never will be used! They should have been in Syria months ago instilling fear into and killing ISIS terrorists!

Exactly! Besides, the A-10 is cool, but not super useful without air superiority, which would be sorely lacking during the first phase of a shootout with the rooskies.

17 posted on 09/22/2015 3:27:15 PM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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One of the most amazing warplanes I’ve ever seen, without doubt.


18 posted on 09/22/2015 3:35:24 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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The article says A-10s are in Estonia temporarily for a joint drill not permanently.


19 posted on 09/23/2015 12:46:00 AM PDT by Krosan
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Great movie and with only $2M budget it beats the Hollywood ones even in action scenes, let alone the story.


20 posted on 09/23/2015 3:46:50 AM PDT by Krosan
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