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He basically time traveled

My first roommate was life support. I got a lot of cool knives and tools from him.

Shiiit those ones she got aren't even BCGs, they just look like standard large-frame glasses. The shit I got issued in 2005 were straight-up Napoleon Dynamite frames, except far worse.

@@briansvedin1788 lmao wasp lenses like on wolf of wall street

With BCGs like those, I'd ask her out anytime! 🤣👍 The ones I got issued in the Army in 2001 looked just as bad as the ones I wore in the 1970s! 😂😂😂😂

She flies an A-10, so I would probably still ask for her number, no matter the type of glasses she is issued. :D

That's a memory from way back. 😂

I'm not sure what you mean by "monocle." If you could clarify your question, I'd be happy to help you out.

@@CanILaughInYourFace She talks about them @5:07.

@@thenguyeninggame8794 oh well 🤷

I'm disappointed nobody got your joke

ITS OVER 9000000000

go nail her @ss

What do you mean killer in the sky? Almost every fighter pilot is a "killer" in the sky.

Mass murderer.

Mine was "Peaches".

@@MattTee1975 what aircraft did you fly?

dont just go for the word. callsigns usually have a story. most of the "cool" callsigns like smoke, phantom, vapor etc have stories behind them that are not necessarily good.

Embarrassing shit hehe

My favorite was the call sign of one of the pilots in the PBS Carrier series, FUNGUS, which stood for 'Eff U New Guy U Suck.'

SPOT ON & BrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrT TO THE LADY AVIATOR , GROUND POUNDERS LOVE THAT WHINE & BrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrT , TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS WITH " CLOSE AIR SUPPORT. ***** OUR MILITARY'S OATH , TO ALL BROTHERS & SISTERS WHO RAISED OUR RIGHT HAND ----------- THANK YOU ALL !!!!!!!!

Capitão Lindsay OLÁ SHALOM. ........SHALOM e um OLÁ a KIM- MUITO BOA AULA. MT NAME JSO JANOY RJ BRAZIL SHALOM

Might have been the case back in the early days, some training to teach deflection shooting, and as we move into WW2 more complex training but it's far more complex these days with the extensive selection of weaponry, Agm's, Sidewinders, Amraams, laser guided bombs and in the case of the A-10 that big ole gun

Where are you from?

Indeed. Mental.

and this is much older tech than they have in other jets, especially the F-35. they also have for infantry a aort of night-vision devices that brightly outlines objects and makes it much easier to see people. and even amateur camera drones nowdays can identify human in order to automatically follow them, so militaries definitely have systems that very easily identify humans from camera feeds. anti-tank weapons alao visually identify vehicles, and even anti-tank artillery shells from the 90s like smart-155 automatically identify tanks. anti-aircraft weapons like manpads have had programming to differentiate between freindly and enemy aircraft for like 60 years (though I imagine that's been tricky in ukraine - they probably have to use some kind of radio beacons to differentiate russian from ukrainian aircraft, except for the newer russian aircraft that ukraine doesn't have).

Haha, yea. Easiest way to spot a trooper off post.

The person is a woman

@@alexgrenlie862 Did you just assume his gender?

It's because MAD is also the A-10 Demonstration Team pilot. They do that at the airshows, much like the Thunderbirds.

A-10 goes Brrrrrrtttttt

What are you calling a “Thunderbird”? The plane is a called a thunderbolt. I can’t think of anything in regards to the A10 called thunderbird

? The AF Thunderbirds fly F-16s. The A-10’s official name is the “Thunderbolt II” but nobody calls it that. It’s usually called by its much more popular nickname the “Warthog.”

You guys are right, must have mixed something up there.

Maybe with “actually” lol. Mad is great. Reminds me of Phoenix from Top Gun Maverick

“Don’t kill allies” possibly.

I believe the canopy is fully pressurized.

@Keyboard Warrior I did. She said you need to wear diapers. 😁

PIVOT kneeboard/leg strap

no its pretty shit at everything it does

It's good for attacking undefended light-skin vehicle convoys but it'll struggle when attacking anything more than that. Its slowness is not a benefit since a fast aircraft can always just slow down while a slow aircraft wouldn't be able to go any faster. And the fact that AD would be able to easily target a slow moving A-10. Hopefully the US wouldn't ever use it against an actual army because t would just be a big coffin for the pilot.

No it’s not

It’s been useful in modern times since the US has mostly been fighting against weaker opponents with less air defense systems and aircraft. Against a modern peer military, the plane will be far less effective, since it can’t outrun interceptors or SAM’s, and since it has to be light enough to fly, it doesn’t have enough armor to take direct hits from bigger weapons. In addition, since it wasn’t designed with stealth in mind, it can be easily detected by enemy radar, giving advanced warning in case of attack. Additionally, before the most recent upgrade package, A10’s lacked many modern sensors and communication systems, making target acquisition a difficult and dangerous job, especially since there’s only a single pilot, who has to simultaneously fly the plane, evade ground fire where they can, and (sometimes) manually find targets using binoculars. These factors have actually given the A10 the highest friendly fire rates of any American vehicle in the Gulf War. With the new upgrade package, this is less of a problem, but it can be expensive and time consuming to upgrade. The main gun will work against light vehicles, but it heavily struggles against even the thinner top armor of modern tanks. It is worth noting that even if it can’t penetrate the armor of a tank, hitting it could damage crucial sensors or weaker components that could make a tank less effective. The problem, though, is that actually hitting an enemy vehicle when they’re moving quickly while deploying smoke and firing back is incredibly hard, not to mention that the gun can only put 50% of its rounds in a 40 foot circle when firing from the sky. During a test trial on the cannon with ideal conditions (stationary targets, clear weather, ample time for the pilot), it didn’t destroy any tanks, and the few disabled ones could be repaired within a few days. This is why most tank kills from the A10 are actually from its missiles, but those missiles could be carried on faster and stealthier aircraft, which makes the A10 not very useful against tanks.

@@PyroFTB Only if using the cannon, and it'd be pretty good in uncontested airspace letting the stealth aircraft take out air defense.

😂😂😂😂😂

There were no A10s left behind in Afghanistan, all aircraft left behind were owned by the Afghanistan government, you might be thinking of A-29s, a prop attack aircraft

There was plenty of stuff left behind in Afghanistan including 1800 American citizens. Sounds like you never served but are quoting cnn

@@stevencorbo1220 Who said anything about citizens, the topic was A10s of which 0 were left behind. Regardless of source thats just fact

It will be interesting to see if a full visor display, like in the F-35, will be implemented into whatever replaces the A-10 (if there ever is a true CAS replacement).

I'm sure they are. Would be insane not to. Some of them might even have small carbines.