A-10 is curious plane, USAFboos consider it to be 8th wonder of the world, but in reality it’s a shitty plane that even the USAF themselves have not much illusion about, and know it’s mostly good for murdering people who aren’t armed in anything better than machine guns.
Which is exactly what piqued my interest. Normally I scoff at people cheering for bloodshed and destruction, but bursting the bubble of the “brrrt” myth might make me jolly for a few seconds
I once saw a video of ukranian pilots training to pilot A-10s (literally by playing DCS World, a russian flightsim) where they said that the US had promised them the A-10s. I don’t know if it is true though.
On the one hand, it would be funny in a schadenfreude way to see those fuckin meme planes get rekt and their myth exterminated.
On the other hand, it will only prolong the slaughter, will cost lives and the poor performance will be blamed on ukranian pilots to maintain the facade. So hopefully the A-10s don’t get supplied
Have they ever promised A-10s? I only recall F-15s
A-10 is curious plane, USAFboos consider it to be 8th wonder of the world, but in reality it’s a shitty plane that even the USAF themselves have not much illusion about, and know it’s mostly good for murdering people who aren’t armed in anything better than machine guns.
That is the target demographic of most US military operations, so it does make sense.
Which is exactly what piqued my interest. Normally I scoff at people cheering for bloodshed and destruction, but bursting the bubble of the “brrrt” myth might make me jolly for a few seconds
The A-10 and SU-24 are incredible and hard hitting planes that can take a beating and annihilate anything on the ground.
That is if you have total air superiority. If the enemy has ANY multirole or interceptor in the air, your CAS is toast.
Also you better pray your enemy doesn’t have any modern MANPADS
I once saw a video of ukranian pilots training to pilot A-10s (literally by playing DCS World, a russian flightsim) where they said that the US had promised them the A-10s. I don’t know if it is true though.
On the one hand, it would be funny in a schadenfreude way to see those fuckin meme planes get rekt and their myth exterminated.
On the other hand, it will only prolong the slaughter, will cost lives and the poor performance will be blamed on ukranian pilots to maintain the facade. So hopefully the A-10s don’t get supplied
This was more than a year ago, so I think that those planes won’t be supplied.