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Ridiculous. The Ukraine war is the best kind of fighting for the USA, with America supplying the kit to kill Russians but at no risk to themselves. If only South Vietnam could have made like Ukraine and held its own with American kit but without American lives.Russia warns US that Ukraine will be its ‘second Vietnam’
‘We can’t let Putin win,’ Biden said on Wednesday.www.politico.eu
Or perhaps a second Afghanistan multiplied many times for Russia
That's a heck of a long flight, presumably via Singapore. I'd need a pee bag.You don't need to give them to the UAF for that to happen. The USAF sends aircraft around the world for airshow appearances. USAF F-22 at Avalon in Australia in March.
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That's a heck of a long flight, presumably via Singapore. I'd need a pee bag.
I'm sure the Russians would be able.to down an A-10 at some point, but after how many tanks, AFVs and personnel were annihilated first?
Sounds like an unnecessary risk of lives. Better to use a fleet of anti-tank drones to destroy those tanks and keep the newly NATO-trained, rare and expensive Ukrainian pilots for the F-16s where they stand the best chance of survival.I'm sure the Russians would be able.to down an A-10 at some point, but after how many tanks, AFVs and personnel were annihilated first?
AgreedThe guy in this video raises a worthy point. Aircraft flown at tree top height in the CAS and interdiction role are vulnerable to SAMS. The A-10 is no exception, and it is worth stating that despite all its advances, it is not infallible. That at least one example will get shot down over Ukraine if it were introduced for use by the UAF is a given. Since the Great War, conflicts have demonstrated the vulnerability of low-flying combat aircraft, including Vietnam, experience from which gave birth to the specification the A-10 was built to in the first place. Cemeteries in the Normandie countryside are littered with Hawker Typhoon pilot graves. The RAF lost hundreds of them in 1944. During the Falklands War, the RAF's Harrier GR.3 close support squadron suffered a forty percent loss rate. Every single Harrier GR.3 that was not lost in combat received damage from small arms fire.
It is for this reason that the USAF is changing its approach to CAS, preferring remote aircraft at high altitude delivering precision munitions and/or using cheaper, less sophisticated manned and unmanned platforms, as opposed to the A-10. On the other hand, this might be interpreted as a viable means of getting rid of the A-10 from USAF service, something some are saying should happen (you decide, I have no skin in the game).
Bearing this in mind, ask yourselves this. What would the propaganda value of a shot-down A-10 be to the Russians and what impact would that have in the USA? Imagine a crashed airframe with Russian troops swarming all over it and waving their Kalashnikovs in the air, claiming they are "A-10 Slayers". That would not be a good look at all and would definitely play into the hands of those who do wish to rid the USAF of the type. Do you think that it is worth giving A-10s to Ukraine at the risk of this happening?
The A-10 is a cool-a$$ aircraft but it is not totally immune to being shot down.
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My prediction: He's gonna 'win'. Any takers?.... ;-PI am so surprised...
Vladimir Putin tells Russian soldiers he will run for president at election
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told soldiers who had fought in the Ukraine war that he would run for president again in the 2024 election.www.abc.net.au