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| Author: | mattlott [ 07 Apr 2003, 10:53 ] |
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I was watching fox news last night when they started drooling over the hogs flying over he city to provide support. What they failed mention was that if saddam still had air defence they would have not been there. I am proud to pay taxes so you guys can do your jobs. I just never thought I would see a picture of a hog flying over down town bagdad--in daylight. |
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| Author: | buzz2182 [ 07 Apr 2003, 12:00 ] |
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I share your drool my friend... I recently met a USMC SSgt. at the gym who fought in Al Khafji back in 1991... some he related an experience where two a-10s strafed an entire Iraqi armored column and then blasted the stragglers with AGM-65s... drool drool... I want to fly A-10s someday, so yeah  more power to yah bro.
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| Author: | mattlott [ 07 Apr 2003, 14:34 ] |
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from MSNBC another gerneration is falling in love with the hog, it seems the media just drools over the hog. It seems that they just like the attitude and practicality of the hog. Article 1 http://www.msnbc.com/news/871968.asp “SO LONG as it can see an armored vehicle, it can destroy it,” said weapons expert William Martel of the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Officially called the Thunderbolt II, the first production A-10 flew in October 1975. Most recently it proved its worth during military operations at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, known for harsh and inhospitable conditions. The twin-engine aircraft is specially designed for close air support of ground forces, can engage in combat over a large area and carry large cargo loads. Its 30mm gatling gun can fire 3,900 rounds a minute and can defeat a variety of ground targets, including tanks. All of the A-10’s glass is bulletproof and titanium armor protects both the pilot and critical areas of the flight control system. In the Gulf War, A-10s flew 8,100 sorties and were seldom grounded due to maintenance problems or poor flying conditions. A 1999 upgrade to the fleet provided the aircraft with a Global Positioning System. The A-10 is designed to survive even the most disastrous damage and finish its mission by landing anywhere, even on improvised airstrips. Its simple design and rugged air frame allow it to operate out of primative desert air strips. article 2 http://www.msnbc.com/news/896770.asp?0cv=CB10#BODY IRAQI SOLDIERS garrisoning this part of the capital suddenly found themselves on the front lines. From our position, we could see several Bradley armored personnel carriers engaging troops on the river bank. In all, more than 70 M1 Abrams tanks and 60 Bradley fighting vehicles took part in the lightning thrust by the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, supported by A-10 Warthog tank buster jets and pilotless drones providing air cover against mostly disorganized resistance. The Americans who advanced along the river directed heavy machine gun fire at Iraqi emplacements across the Tigris. As the gunfire set a fuel store ablaze, several Iraqi soldiers jumped into the water to save themselves. The last man barely made it. In the skies above Baghdad, A-10 jets provided cover for the Americans on the ground. The Iraqis did manage to fire on the invaders and we saw them hit the Bradleys, but as far as we could tell the ammunition bounced off. Monday’s incursion was much broader than the raid American forces mounted on Saturday. On Monday, there was the sound of fighting from the east, south and west, and we can truly say that we were watching the battle for the center of Iraqi capital unfold. AT THE PALACE U.S. Army columns moved northeast to the heart of Baghdad and the newest and main presidential palace, located on the Tigris, which divides the capital. The gold- and blue-domed palace, which is near Saddam’s destroyed Baath Party headquarters, apparently was mainly a residential site rather than an administrative office. Soldiers from the American 3rd Infantry had little difficulty in taking the place over and inspecting its luxurious interior. Some of the U.S. troops felt confident enough to rest. Others used the toilets, rifled through documents in the bombed-out compound and helped themselves to ashtrays, pillows, gold-painted Arab glassware and other souvenirs. Back at the river bank, their colleagues were emerging from their Bradleys. They, too, appeared surprisingly relaxed. The Iraqis, on the other hand, were fleeing — at least one of them still in his underwear. Not all of the Iraqi soldiers got away. A few were taken prisoner. Minutes later, the Iraqi information minister, Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf, appeared at our hotel to try to paint a very different picture. But his words flew in the face of what everyone had seen. “We besieged them and killed most of them, and I think we will finish them soon,” Al-Sahhaf said. “We will slaughter all of these invaders and their tombs will be here in Iraq.” |
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| Author: | sgtgoose1 [ 07 Apr 2003, 17:14 ] |
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<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> SOMEBODY NAIL THAT SUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRESS TO TEST |
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