• @Magos_Galactose
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    171 year ago

    They also hype up the capability of things like A-10 so much that they have to atribute every single air-to-ground tank kill to A-10 during the war. It’s not until decades after the SECOND war, during the Afghan campaign, that it’s revealed how inflated those number were.

    (what is it with all fascists regimes that they have tendencies to overinflate military equipments performance.)

    • @redtea
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      91 year ago

      They look in the mirror and see what we see of them: a paper tiger. They just won’t admit it to the general population.

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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      51 year ago

      Ah the good old “superior german steel” myth forever alive and even mutating.

      • @Shrike502
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        61 year ago

        B-but muh brrrt! Muh plane-built-around-the-gun!

      • @Magos_Galactose
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        41 year ago

        It’s even worst when you look at their friendly fire rate. A-10 has such terrible situation awareness that it’s easy for the pilot to misidentify friendly targets as hostile. Combining with the fact A-10 pilot have far less brutal qualification criteria than fighter pilots and…well, you can see where this is going.

        Not to mention, as quoted from a US army personal from Afghanistan, “The A-10 usually took their sweet time getting anywhere. When we call for air support, we usually have a reason to require them as son as possible, so speed is a real issue for CAS aircraft.”

        • @Franfran2424
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          31 year ago

          “You say friendly fire, I call this a 25 killstreak”