14 Oct 2007 Wardak AFG HAWG 05 A-10 Gun Camera Footage 

Which minute mark? Thanks 👍

@@theprodigal7143 5:50

U can hear my voice at 2:18

What's even better is you stop hearing the firefight over the radio

they are fighting against a bunch of caveman and goat farmers dude, and still somehow lost

Reminds me of the Star Wars movies. “Good shot, red leader”

they are fighting against a bunch of caveman and goat farmers dude

​@@xxdaggerxx5 and what are you doing?

@@jayday187 not fighting goat farmers?

​@@xxdaggerxx5 goat farmers with ak, pkms, rpgs, and mortars.

Да, да, зато убило других людей, живущих на своей земле и которые не звали чужаков себе домой.

@@chumanyou1820 КОГДА КТО-ТО ПЫТАЕТСЯ ПРИЧИНИТЬ БОЛЬ ВАМ ИЛИ ТЕМ, КОГО ВЫ ЛЮБИТЕ... ВЫ УБИВАЕТЕ ИХ. ЭТО ОЧЕНЬ ПРОСТО. ВЫ УБИВАЕТЕ НЕ ПОТОМУ, ЧТО НЕНАВИДИТЕ... ВЫ УБИВАЕТЕ, ПОТОМУ ЧТО ЛЮБИТЕ. ХРН УКРАИНЕЦ СНОСИТ НОГИ РОССИЙСКОМУ ЗАХВАТЧИКУ... ЭТО ПОТОМУ, ЧТО ОН ЛЮБИТ СВОЮ СЕМЬЮ И СТРАНУ.

@@jastrapper190 это войны капиталистов, так что пролетарии страдают. Не стоит верить официальной пропаганде.

@@chumanyou1820 Взорванных российских вертолетов и танков в Афганистане больше, чем всего, что оставили американцы. Забавно, как ракеты "Стингер" выебали Советы из Афганистана, а теперь NLAW выебали их в Украине.

@@jastrapper190 Long Live Ukraine! Slava Ukraina!

The A-10 is a great CAS platform. The trigger has 2 stages. First stage basically puts the plane on autopilot to freeze at its aimpoint (kinda sorta, more or less) and the second stage actually fires the gun, and the plane automatically adjusts down to compensate for recoil. ,.

@@RADIOACTIVEBUNY yup, I know all that man. This pilot still demonstrates some surgical gunnery skills in this video though even with all that considered.

​@@RADIOACTIVEBUNY that's amazing

PAC system really helps out. When the first stage of the trigger is pulled it activates "PAC" which takes control of the aircraft and holds the pipper (aimpoint) dead on target and compensates for recoil, then when its let go, it releases control and lets the plane free-fly again making hitting targets and not friendlies much easier.

@@monika-Chr right, as I said in the reply to the other comment, I know that. What I'm saying is that even WITH that consideration this dude's skill is pretty impressive.

Yeah, and then seeing how FRIGGING close the pip was to the convoy when he cut loose, holey moley, the impacts on the 2nd pas where, what, maybe 50m off the road?

When u hear the danger close call we attempted to pull our turret gunners down, the hit was close enough that the slag from the cannon was hitting out vehicles. The only way I can describe the sound is wet bubble wrap being popped kinda like a wet repeated slap and then tinsel tinks hitting the right side of our vehicles

that is fuckin awesome man. im so proud of you

@phan117 all though I'm medical... and my profile pick is my graduation class from Fort Sam Houston...

@@ExplosiveQuarry hey youre still going places, be proud, i still am. good luck with everything man, si se puede👍

@phan117 oh trust me, I'm really proud of what I've already done... like making the first ever morale patch for my squadron... every Friday, everyone wears it...

@@ExplosiveQuarry i would love to see this man, that sounds kickass as FUCK! god bless you dude and keep on kickin🤘

The biggest issue in my mind is how all branches use such wildly different systems. AF wants polar directions while Marines use Grid system.

I think that was just a basic FISTer on the net-probably not JFO qualified much less JTAC qualified. This was just straight up ECAS.

Nice

i want to be raquel welch bicycle seat

It's 2023, you can be whatever you want 😂

It never crossed my mind as a child, but here I am anyway and I now find myself at 42, as an airplane.

and you can have sex with other planes. Mmmmmmm, with a chopper or a thicc air bus. Oooh, a Big Black Hawk

Cuz it’s more accurate, imperial is just jack shit

​@@dukephantomx how is it "more accurate?" It is a unit of measurement

@@nooneofconsequence3847 It's more scientifically logical and related to math versus body parts. "i.e 12 inches in a foot, 5280 feet in a mile" vs "1000 millimeters in a meter, 1000 meters in a kilometer" etc. Even NASA used metric exclusively to get to the moon. The only exception was for airspeed and altitude that was displayed to the pilots as feet and knots for their comfort, but only AFTER it was converted from meters/second to Knots and Meters to Feet in the original Apollo computer programming

America is secretly metric

Shit I’mma vet and i didn’t even think about them only using metric for guns and mortars and shit. The airwing uses standard still.

Thank you for your service 🙏 🇺🇸

That's why the argument that an F-35 could fill the role of the A-10 is pure and total BS!

CAS skill is determined by the controller, not the aircraft. A slow hunk of metal with no EW is going to be shot down quickly in a near peer conflict

In a couple decades, laser weapons will be so sophisticated that offensive war planes will be obsolete in powered societies

@@johnflank8135 Wrong. The A-10 can complete a 360° turn in 3 football fields, which means it can keep the pressure on, and destroy tanks, artillery, infantry, snipers or any other threat to our ground troops, better than any other aircraft. You ask ANY ground-pounder what he'd like better covering his ass, the A-10 or any other aircraft, and with a POSSIBLE exception of an orbiting AC130 Spectre, he will always choose the A-10. Only an idiot would say something contrary to the A-10's record in war. Do you honestly think there wouldn't be cover for A-10's for ancillary threats? Let me guess, your "experience" is in video games. Try serving in a combat job, get REAL experience, and then come back to the conversation. Clearly, you're a keyboard 'warrior'.

@@Jeremiah_Johnson139 The systems within the F-35 allow the pilot to get an incredibly good view of the battlefield and their surroundings, I believe the F-35s would be able to fill the role. A large J-DAM is probably as if not more effective than an A-10 gun run on enemy infantry and it is less prone to MANPADs than the A-10.

@Dartgame 340 a10 was the jet that shot down the most during Iraq regardless controlling the sky or not the A10 sucks if the enemy has AA

@@zergio1825 Not really, the A-10 is built to withstand intense fire. That’s why the pilot sits in a bathtub of armor. In a modern combat situation I’m sure it would not fly alone or without some support. It was designed and created to be remarkably survivable, with many auxiliary (backup) systems. I would suggest looking up some of the pictures of damaged A-10s that were landed, it’s absolutely incredible.

@@quinlanreed7162 youre right but that still doesn't change the fact the a10 was one of the jets that was shot down the most during desert storm

@@zergio1825 It was also one of the most used. Do more sorties, in a more dangerous environment, you're going to have more losses.

@@zergio1825 I don’t doubt that it was, but it’s a critical aircraft for CAS.

Don't A-10 has a modernized version of itself now? It looks more techy than the standard one.

@@vash_the_stampede6570 this HUD is just a regular A-10C lol. But yeah we do have later blocks that are modernized quite a bit

thought it was actually getting that in the not too distant future, along with data sharing/communication stuff

@@themadmallard it have something like that for decades. Its just called SADL and works really well. These things like "sensor fusion" are just marketing terms to justify higher cost. Even the interace is getting simpler to operate and whole concept is getting better and better, its not a new thing by far.

​@@TheTryznasensor fusion is really more for CAP and SEAD missions, not super useful for CAS

That burst was fatter than Lizzo, holy fuck.

You the man!

Low and slow CAS is no more accurate than dropping JDAMS from up high

​@@user-dq1je7zy3p You want a JDAM 100 meters from a convoy of people and soft trucks?

70m is the number to manufacture one. Once you factor in all the research we paid for, the cost per unit is in the billions. We gave up a LOT of cheaper hardware to fund those things, and they don't do jack shit as well as anything that they replaced. Biggest waste of military money in history. They'll be retired in the 2040's and be remembered most for shooting down a weather balloon. smh. I miss the F22...

@@speedycpu yes PGMs are accurate enough that friendly forces will be safe

@@NathansWorkshop The per unit cost for the F-35 is not billions

That’s some badass shyt man! 😂

Thank you for your service too 🙏 🇺🇸

I didn't serve but I don't understand why we have so much equipment and personnel that could be used to support an action that we don't use. If your goal is to take that specific town and you've been in a firefight for 30 minutes it seems reasonable enough to me to send in any kind of support to push through, kill as many of the enemy as quickly as possible and keep as many Americans and allies alive as possible. Is it war or not? There should be no limit to what we're willing to send in when Americans are being asked to risk their lives

@@chase152 Oh you sweet summer child

@@chase152 Ye let's just drop 8 cbu-105 on a little village in the middle of nowhere, what could go wrong?

We went back to that road a couple weeks later to recover the lost vehicles and dropped several 500 pounders, our Intel was the vehicles were heavily ied'd, the vehicles were not there

@@desne153 lmfaoooo

they are taking deliveries of militarized turboprop Air Tractors for ground attack. Its no a-10 but it is still pretty badass

The A-10 is perfectly suited. It's a flying tank that flies slow enough to allow it to employ accurate fire. Replacing it won't be easy.

its dogshit in modern combat

God I fucking NEED IT

They should be in Ukraine too. Russian armor columns wouldn't stand a chance.

Wasn’t a JTAC. This was a Forward Observer talking to CAS. “4 5” call sign is a FO call sign in the US Army.

Correct. Delta was the infantry platoon coming to help us do the extraction. 4-5 is their forward observer.

Its what you heard. A10'S are 1 of the few that monitor both ground and air frequencies. Atleast in 2003 is was that way and in this video

@@travist2844 Thank you. 👍

@@BIG-DIPPER-56 That portion of the Middle East also has some super fucky shit in the geology that messes with radio as well. That sounded like HF whine to me. When everything else is shit, HF works. Downside is it sounds like that even when conditions are good. lol

There’s at least 4-5 radios using this channel at the same time stepping on each other’s conversations, listen when the ground forces are talking you can hear the crew-served weapons firing about 4 feet from the guy talking- bit busy...

There's nothing bad about what you just heard. It's better than the rest of the world... look at Russian communications, and China. A joke compared to the US

The ATFLIR can be "snowplowed" to follow the nose of the aircraft so you can get a good view of the target while nose on but generally you'd want to find the target with the pod first while up high, keep it marked and memorized in your HUD and then go in with the indicators in your HUD. Obviously when you're slinging PGM's you can do the whole thing through the TGP other than keeping yourself in constraints. The Apache has the advantage of two aviators so one person has the ability to be head down in the TADS the whole engagement, fast air normally does not. Gun runs aren't a great idea in general but you actually tend to have a pretty good idea of where everything is and where your rounds are going to land before the trigger gets squeezed.

I am sapper12 in this. When I heard we had CAS on station my first thought was plz don't be an Apache. I mean this sincerely with no disrespect... You likely would have been shot down. This is the extraction part of a 4-5 hour fight.

Thought depleted uranium was for armor? Wouldn’t they be using conventional HE rounds?

@@jamesjarrait2231 they do, DU is tooexpensive and pointless at what they shoot at

The USAF dosent load it like DCS players.

prove?

EARSHOT is a marked area of interest saved in the A-10's flight computer as a waypoint or Nav reference. You can see little markers on the screen pointing in the direction of steerpoint EARSHOT while the aircraft turns in the video. You can also see the bearing and distance to the steerpoint change throughout the engagement. It can be a bullseye, but the actual bearing for bullseye calls would be reversed so I'm not sure how often a crew would leave it up in the hud rather than referencing it on the nav display.