If it’s true, it’s not just the right wing that will be angry. People already feel Facebook is manipulative and unethical; this is just more fuel for the fire.
Kudos to Gizmodo for giving this issue a serious examination. I admit that I would have predicted a Gawker site to participate in the very same hide-newsworthy-conservative-subjects editorializing that apparently Facebook did. Thanks for proving me wrong.
That is some seriously creepy looking shit right there.
Never trust the monkey. They’re always in on it.
Hey! I don’t have kids.
I AM, in fact, an irritable dad with a law degree, Samer. How did you DO that?
The super tucano would probably work. But you cannot discount the A-10s psychological impact on the enemy or the morale for the...not enemy. You can’t do that from 20k feet with bombs or from miles away with a missile.
That may explain why the effort in AFG was so shitty.
A plane relying purely on AGM’s and guided bombs will never be as good or better than the A10 in a CAS role, a plane not designed to operate at low speeds will never be as good or better in a CAS role, a plane where the pilot can’t turn his head because of the bulky helmet will never be as good or better than the A10…
I concur with Steve on the spectacle of a GAU-8 firing on a tank. I got to watch an afternoon of live-fire on an M-60 Patton at the 188th Fighter Wing’s range in Fort Smith, Ark. From my spot up in the range control tower, the overlapping sonic booms of the 30mm shell, the report of the cannon itself and the sound of…
I was reading an article today about a quick launch exercise of 6 F35s at Mountain Home AFB. Essentially it was to simulate a group of aircraft on alert taking off in a hurry to interdict something.
True, but that loiter time once on station...? Different story.
Fact: CAS is a time intensive endeavor. In order to put in the ToT, loiter time is IMPORTANT. F-35 has loiter minimal ability to loiter, as it can not carry the necessary fuel.
A long time ago, when I was a young, impressionable armor crewman, I saw one of these (at either Grafenwöhr or Hohenfels) on a live fire exercise. It seemed to come out of nowhere and made two quick passes on the target - which looked like a BTR-80 - and just chewed it to pieces. Perforated it like a giant soda can…
If the mission is to blast apart jihadis in some shitty desert, there are cheaper & equally effective ways of doing so.
Good. It’s one of the best military aircraft ever produced, and everything a military aircraft should be: rugged and highly mission-capable. We should have built even more.
What’s up with the guys rushing in trying to get in front of it? Did they think they could stop it with their bare hands? Or they wanted to get in on some of that sweet, sweet settlement money?