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A-10 Thunderbolt II, aka the Warthog, aka a tanker's worst nightmare.Alliance Airshow, 2007.
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That gatling gun will straight up Swiss cheese almost any tank in existence! Itβs the most glorious gun in this or any reality!
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That gatling gun will eat you up! I love the A-10 Thunderbolt.
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Beautiful/badass warplane which deserves a happy spot in my 's
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That plane sure is a fancy attachment to that GAU-8 gatling gun...
Taliban, say your prayers!
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funny thing about that Gatling gun is the kickback.....most, if not all of the pilots have to push the nose back down again during the initial firing because the sheer recoil forces the nose up!
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That doesn't surprise me. All of that recoil has to go somewhere.
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heh, yeah and seeing as the gun is just under the nose.....
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Could you imagine being the pilot and feeling the entire plane shake with the gun? I'll bet if that gun were fired for long enough, it would push the plane backwards.
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nah it would just cause the plane to do a upwards flip if the pilot doesn't push the nose down and keeps it steady during firing...if they didn't there would be a lot of planes flipping about in the air and potentially crashing because of how low they have to be to the ground when firing that massive gun!
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That would be something to see, an A-10 doing a back flip because of the recoil from the gun.
I can hear it now: "BrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRrrrrt."
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heh yeah....i heard that they are slowly replacing the A-10's with another plane.
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If we did replace them, the day will come when we wish we hadn't, then the decommissioned planes will have to be reactivated.
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yeah but "mothballed" tanks, ships AND planes take ages to get reactivated as the parts they originally used are often is short supply.
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True, but the people who were against retiring such planes, tanks, and or ships will get the chance to say "I told you so".
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yep! im one of those types of people when i hear they are retiring something, only to bring it back out of necessity....i just say "i told you we'd need it still!" heck i think my grandfather said that when they were thinking of retiring something when he did his 4 year mandatory army service, only for them to cancel the order 2 weeks later and keep the thing they were gonna phase out. he did say to me though when he was here this year for his yearly holiday that and i quote "the time i spent in the army was the WORST 4 years of my life and i wouldn't wish it upon ANYONE" when he heard my brother was thinking of joining the AUS navy as a cook.
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I suppose its human nature, to want to replace the old with the new. But sometimes the old ways or old technologies are the best ones. Simpler, more reliable, cheaper, more effective, more durable, the list can go on.
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yeah we all want the new age tech these days but not me, i STILL have my old PC from the 90's and it runs better than the one im currently using! plus its the only PC i have that still has the old OLD windows install!
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Isn't that odd how sometimes older technology works better than the newer versions? Back in the old days, things were built to last. Nowadays things are cheaply manufactured and if they break, so what? The idea isn't to fix what is broken, its to go and buy a replacement.
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yep, trust the old stuff to work better than the newer stuff!
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Yes, but try telling your superiors that their idea to replace the old, seemingly outmoded and clunky is wrong. If you had to chose between a newer electronic watch for example, that had faults, and an older mechanical one that was known to be reliable and accurate, I'm willing to bet most would chose the newer one.
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oh if there is enough praise towards older tech in the military for say its ease of use and reliability the higher ups usually take that into account before deciding on what to do.
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I guess, but what do I know?Β
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it seems that the higher ups like the fancy new things....i read a news report that said the AUS defense force bought a whole fleet of the new fighter jets before they had even been through testing and when they got them they found that the jets had a major problem, the electronics i think it was and they can't back out of the contract of buying the allotted amount they asked for so they are having to spend even more money getting them fixed! sure its a next-gen fighter but it wasn't even tested for faults before they offered it for sale!
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Well, I suppose that's their own darn fault. They made a hasty decision that could've been avoided had they been patient and waited for test results.
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this is the AUS military we're talking about....we get most, if not ALL of our gear from the USA! our tank crews are driving the M1 Abrams tank for instance, but when you live on the largest island in the world there is little to no point developing new tanks due to the logistics involved of getting them where they are needed so we just buy them lol. we spend more money on ocean/coastal defense than we do on troops and the airforce! and here's a little something for ya, the ONLY tank that AUS ever built and then didn't end up using was the Sentinel tank due to a feared Japanese invasion during WWII. the only reason we never used them was because by the time the tank was finished and 25 had actually been produced we were already outfitted with the Matilda's and the M3 Grant tanks.Β
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I didn't know beforehand. But I suppose it would make sense to buy equipment from another country if that option is less expensive than the development and fielding of your own.
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yeah and with the distances between the military bases in AUS being massive, getting the new gear to them, even if they are bought from other countries still takes a lot of time to get there...and you are right in saying that it's cheaper to buy existing equipment than developing gear that would really have only one good use in our type of climate AKA hot as hell days lol!
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Funny, my parents recently went to Australia. Melbourne, the Remarkable Rocks, and the Great Barrier Reef to name a few.
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yeah its a beautiful place if you look past all the dangerous animals we have here.....
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or this one, the Irukandji jellyfish....still a box jellyfish but its a tiny bugger and is the most deadly one in the world!
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The size of a match head, and yet its lethal? The world is full of strange creatures.
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yep, that it is! another thing to point out about that jellyfish is that it has stingers on it's bell as well and we have no idea why it has them there....but beaches are often closed down as soon as one is spotted or someone gets stung, hell some are closed for months as we can get huge blooms of these tiny buggers but it's a good thing down where i live, southern area of Western AUS we haven't gotten any a the beaches...we just have to contend with sharks biting surfers.
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If not jellyfish, sharks.
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yep! and spiders, snakes and a whole range of other things that can either kill/hurt you!
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We live in a hazardous world.
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i think AUS has got to be one of the deadliest places on earth from just the animals alone!
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The African continent and South America have their fair share of deadly animals, too.
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this one rocks....let him fly and warthog'll show...
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Favorite plane right there!
"Tank? What tank?"
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GAU 8- 30 mm, depleted uranium shells. FTW.
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Tank eater indeed! Great shot. 
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Fuckin A', that baby goes hard in the paint.
All Hail The Mighty A-10! And an excellent photograph of it at that, well done.
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Nice shot. It definitely can take care of business.
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Such an awesome ship..always a personal fave
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my what a big... piece you have... sorry, that plane even looks nasty, I'm going to say a fuller (love my english) pic would've done him more justice?
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Or our best friend, depending on who he's coming at.
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