US New A-10 Warthog After Upgrade SHOCKED The World! 

can drones hit it?

I hope so to

It is in the US Army? I thought it was in the US Air Force. The US Air Force hates the A-10. They want warplanes that penetrate deep into enemy territory. The A-10 is slow and was made to support the troops along the battleline.

@@michaelskok5135it’s a ground support air craft, infantry from all branches of the military love this plane

It's a great and beautifull plane. If US doesn't want them anymore why not sending 30 of the old ones to Ukrain? Don't you think it would be usefull against russian tanks? Or it would be dificult in such plain territory?

BRRRRRT!

If you heard the brrrt your bad guys had already met the 30mm

@@whitesteve4383 True. 😃

Ditto my father, who lead the repair and maintenance squardrons in the same time frame. Very good chance your husband worked with my dad.

I was camping on the beach in 87 during Easter seen a squadron fly overhead of A-10's. Shook our motor home as each one went past.

I have a friend who was a pilot and flight safety officer for the MB a10 fleet all through the 80s. Perhaps your husband had worked with him. He was known as Doc. Thanks to all who served, God bless those gave their lives. Today is Memorial Day 2024

I went to Myrtle Beach every year to play golf with clients, but watching the A10s fly round was my biggest thrill.🐗⚡️⛈️🎉🛩️

Sorry for your loss. He worked on one of the best aircraft in US history (IMO).

i always thought the A10 was a plane mounted on a gun, not the other way around. it is one of the US army's best asset and in my opinion, irreplaceable and indespensable as its one purpose, a CAS that saves lives.

Amen. And thank you for your service.

Yet the Pentagon pukes want to replace the Warthog with shiny new F 35s! They'd rather risk a poorly armored, ridiculously priced 5th generation fighter best suited for perhaps carrier based sorties. Even then, the F 18 super hornet can carry triple the ordnance that the F 35 can (if they want the F 35 to maintain its stealth capabilities) One fully decked out weapon wise is a beast. The F 35 can do the mission, but at what cost of pilots and machine? I'll take the Titanium bathtub and 20,000 lbs. of ordnance please!

She needs full 1500 new engines and 500 more wing sets! It is a remarkable frontline bomber

I seen these things in action, they are amazing

Thank you for your service. Thank you all who have served. 🇺🇸

When you see the smoke but don't hear the sound... You're about to have a very bad day.

Watch "Kickstart My Heart A-10 Warthog "

The insurgents wouldn't even come outside with these boys going!!

Like when some wise arsed govt. worker changed the spec's on the propellant for the M16. Soldiers were dying because the weapons continually 'plugged' with some kind of shit from the combustion of the same. Pictures of them were found with their weapon(s) partly dismantled and were killed. The parents finally got a commission to hear their anger etc. Govt. workers are worth two knobs of goat turds.

Absolutely

You may be right. But I would love to see what the A-14 “Wild Wolf” can do. Assuming, of course, the Air Force is allowed to build prototypes……

I agree, just like the B-52 , they should be around for 100 years

well, how would the "industrial complex" make money?

...tanks, talk to the Russians. : )))))))

@@timbushell8640 Ha, the Russians are hardly relevant.

What made me fall in love with the warthog were the countless stories of how it saved many lives by enduring significant damage while coming to the rescue of numerous soldiers.

​@@2tigereone of the coolest things about the A-10 is how it's specifically designed to sustain immense amounts of damage without going down. It has a self repairing fuel tank and it can fly with 1 engine

A (B.F.G.) with wings. :)

I hear fucking bbrrrrrrrrrttt so many times on kosovo. Frezzing noise

BEST COMMENT EVER!!

Lmao, so true

Now that was funny true, but funny!

That literally goes for any gun that fires supersonic rounds.

yea its certainly iconic, I might be dating myself in this comment, but is it more of an icon than the boeing B17 thats a pretty close call i would think. Status aside, its probably the most useful aircraft ever contracted by the US military.

Except that it will never get there. It's extremely slow and a huge target. In war games it was estimated that the entire fleet wouldn't last the first day if deployed. You'd want Apaches in that role, the A10 no longer has a role which is why it's not included in anything anymore.

@@michaelmay5453 cry harder

@@lordraydens Hes not. Its factual statements he's just provided you with.

It was designed from the experience of the Vietnam war to handle an environment where it was intended to support ground troops. That means that slow and maneuverable was important design factors and the armament and redundancies of this plane were put in place for it to withstand ground attacks from lighter types of weapons. This is a plane that you send into a boxing ring - expect it to get hit, but also deliver hard punches and change objectives on the way. The alternative would be missiles sent from far away to targets designated by spotters on the ground. If you look at what's going on in Ukraine then there are cases where it isn't suitable, but there are also cases where it could be very useful - like taking out artillery positions and vehicle convoys. War is a risky business - expect losses if you go in.

@@willz0452 The war games scenario is bullshit

It’s the best for the troops 😢😢😢

Give them all to Ukraine.

Rule #1, keep this aircraft in service. Rule #2, refer to Rule #1😎🤠

They took it off the decommission list 3 times that I know of. :)

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Agree totally. The real reason was the graft.

Unfortunately, greed and politics will be it's downfall.

Something must happen in old age where your brain just stops working. The A-10 is a machine built for war, not your failing dick. The enemies of the United States, actual real threats, would love nothing more than for it's military to stagnate and stop furthering it's technological development especially for something as stupid as nostalgia. If you ask the grunts on the ground what we should be flying in the air then you're a fucking idiot, they're on the ground what the fuck do they know about air assets and air craft engineering?

TRUTH! Also gulf pirates would be soiling their shorts if these showed up to foil a piracy attempt.

instead of getting rid of the A10 they should make a more modern version of it that can also land on Carriers

😂 Such knowledge 😂

@@chrisbarr959 YES

Then we could all drink Miller Lites and crochet purple baby socks out of used dental floss, life would be a dream

I would say it's the most overestimated aircraft ever. I don't really know what role it could fill today since it would be shot down before getting in range of anything. It's loud, paints a massive target and it is REALLY slow. I guess if you establish air superiority first and take out all AA measures some might be able to get through. Which is probably why it's never deployed anywhere and not counted in any role anymore.

@@michaelmay5453 cry harder

@@michaelmay5453You obviously have no idea why this plane was built.

@@michaelmay5453 It's not a dog-fighter or a stealth bomber. It's not the tip of the spear during an initial invasion to knock out radar arrays and AD batteries. It's not a transport plane or a medi-vac platform. It's not the stereotypical "air force" plane that people think of. It's essentially an infantry weapon that flies. Its reason for existence is to be the guardian angel when Marine/Army infantry, SOF/SF teams, etc are pinned-down and need CLOSE support from someone that can actually see what's going on (ie not some drone dropping laser/gps guided 500lb bombs from 50,000ft) 8 dozen troops ambush your squad with MG positions, mortar teams dropping IDF, 25mm AA gun and a couple tanks? A-10 to the rescue, and they can get there twice as fast as a helicopter gunship, while being able to operate at higher altitudes and carry a far higher payload. They can maneuver extremely well at low elevations, almost as well as something like an AH-64, meaning they can be incredibly accurate with that cannon. Before you say "why not use the Apache, etc" it's because the A-10's are tougher, can carry more weapons, and their auto cannon dwarfs the AH-64's: A-10: 30mm cannon (30x173mm) is in a different league than the 30mm on the AH-64 (30x113mm) while also being fired from a much longer series of gatling barrels. So it has better range (4000m effective vs ~1700m effective), higher velocity/energy, 5x higher fire rate, and flatter trajectory. All very important for keeping that danger-close support accurate to prevent a blue-on-blue. Think of it being the difference between an SBR 10" .300 black vs a 20" .308win or .30-06. Both firing the same 150gr .308in pill, but the .300 black is pushing that bullet at ~1825fps at the muzzle, while the .308 (especially 06) is pushing it at 2800fps+. It's a clear step-up in terms of energy on target & the same is true with these two systems cannon. More velocity means armor that might be a bit too thick for the apache to deal with may get punched by the A-10. And that's just the cannon. A-10 has bombs, sidewinders for air-to-air, etc. To top it off, the A-10 can shrug-off hits that would down the AH-64 or similar craft. They can take a hit from a modern MANPAD (let alone old Soviet RPG's) and stay in the air. The chopper may be able to, unless it hits the rotor blades, then it's game over. That AA gun (not missile system) in the hypothetical, they can just engage it with one of their guided missiles from a few miles out so that they can move in, eliminate the armor, and then shred anything/anyone stupid enough to pop their head up with the auto cannon. All the while attention shifts to the A-10, so that platoon on the ground can maneuver. The reason you hear so much about it is because every infantryman that's ever had one save the day (or know it's on stand-by should they need it) think it's the best invention since crayons, lol. It gets 100x the respect when it was getting shot at with a .50cal for 5min, having part of the wing blown off by a Stinger, and it still takes out everything giving the boys trouble while being able to limp back to base. Which since it can take off from a short dirt runway, they can be ran out of remote outposts or in a situation like Ukraine, 15min behind the front. I guarantee you if Ukraine had air parity in terms of fighters/multi-roll jets, the A-10 would be the kind of system that could swing the upper hand in their favor. It is a tank hunter, after all... There's a reason the US keeps it around; if it was a delicate little flower they'd have dropped it decades ago... And I don't know why you think they don't use it: it was used in Afghanistan all the time. We haven't really been in a conflict where this type of support would be needed since.

@@williampollock1274 Good god, I had no idea that post was THAT long until I saw it in the side-bar, lol.

same here and the SR-71 . I saw the SR-71 up close that thing is sleek and sexy.

@@michaelarrington988 : They're both such unique aircraft.

wait for what they havnt showed us yet. new black birds, new jets that are superior to the worlds advanced technology. its a wild time to see the airforce roll out new machinery

Difference is that the F-15 is actually a good aircraft while the A10 never was and is completely useless today. Everyone likes that gun but that's just a giant target that can be taken down (and will be taken down) long before it enters the battlefield.

​@@michaelmay5453 Says the guy who's never needed her to save his azz. I'll bet you drink Butt-Lite, right?

... and both built by the corrupt and technically challenged Boeing company, and doors fall off recently? : )))))))))

@@michaelmay5453 You don't know WTF you're talking about. The A-10 has always been a good aircraft. It's actually one of the most reliable and durable planes ever made. And it's not completely useless today, what are you even talking about about? The reason the Thunderbolt II is still active today is because nothing comes close to it in close air support. Where do you even get your info from, because it's not from the Air Force who has the squadrons of them, and I guarantee it's not from the thousands of pinned down troops the A-10 has saved.

​@@89ludeawakening1 for real I don't know what this guy is talking about. Just like he doesn't know what he's talking about. All US and allied forces love the A-10 and all enemies fear it. If you need to take out tanks, artillery pieces, armored convoys, supply lines, fortified strongholds or pretty much anything else on the ground, you send in the A-10. It is unmatched at what it does. It's the most heavily armed and armored plane in history. It has a less than 1% loss rate out of over 10,000 missions flown. They can even hold their own in air-to-air combat because of their targeting systems and missile deterrents.

I think the Army and Marine ground troops had to convince the AF that this was the best air support craft they had as they tried so hard to end this program.

No, no it has not. It's just a costly but popular target aircraft. It has no role to play at all because when air superiority has been established and AA has been taken out you have Apaches to play that role and before that it would just get shot down.

@@RedBud315 No, they don't care for it at all. Which is the right way to look at it. It's always been useless but against todays AA it's just flying a giant target around.

@@michaelmay5453 cry harder

​@@michaelmay5453 sure bud, that's what an enemy ground target would say.

Last time they 2ere really pushing it out, the Army said, "Sweet, we'll add our first fixed wing since the Air Corp left!" And the Air Force back-pedaled real quick... 😅

What is weird to me is that they invested in the Air Tractor now, which is a total reversal of their standoff attack tactics from before

@@wheelerthree I haven't heard anything about that. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it.

@@billotto602 it's pretty neat. Fat Electrician did a video on it. Air Tractors have been used for all sorts of commercial applications. Carries 3629kg of ordinance on a prop plane for the military variant. quick search of AT-802U Sky Warden will get you some fun stuff on it.

Great thoughts, but they are not jets, they are turbofans.

For real

womp womp

In this case I would say people may be shocked at how long the plane has been in service and will continue to be. But deciding to watch or not watch a video based from one word is kinda silly.

Agreed, love this plane but you’re just lying when you retitle old videos and claim there’s some new Shocking! upgrade

1 million people disagree with you and watched it

No it has not proven a joke. All you are doing is showing your very understanding of modern aircraft.

When the sad day finally comes, I hope a big bunch of them are meted out to museums and collectors. ( one UGLY, badass,).

I know, right? I was expecting them to fit an ice-cream machine in the cockpit.

@@Hedington If they let Musk and SpaceX borrow one for a weekend, I bet they could integrate a touch screen to get rid of some of those pesky buttons and toggles. They they could have an ice-cream machine AND a humidor in the cockpit...

@@jeffnewcomb601not to mention a 22 speaker Burmeister audio set, with speakers on the outside of the plane. Just for entertainment 😂

Seriously. these trashy AI thumbnails are really starting to piss me off...

5/17/2024. All right you want one. Me I want seven, one for each day. Sigh.

well i mean the F22 has stealth capabilities and is one of the most prominent dog fighting aircraft ever made but 20 warthogs for the price of one F22 is acc crazy

And the F-22 got a kill rate of 108-0 in simulations against F-15, F-16, and F-18 jets. For reference, the F-16 Falcon is 76-1 in REAL air combat scenarios. The F-15A/C/I/S Eagle is 102-0. There were only 186 operational F-22s, which is still probably overkill, but when you have such an unstoppable jet it’s worth the cost to build a couple

Congress is to be credited, not the USAF, which wanted it abandoned.

I would say it's the most overestimated aircraft ever. I don't really know what role it could fill today since it would be shot down before getting in range of anything. It's loud, paints a massive target and it is REALLY slow. I guess if you establish air superiority first and take out all AA measures some might be able to get through. Which is probably why it's never deployed anywhere and not counted in any role anymore.

@@michaelmay5453 They operate them from aircraft carriers.

@@michaelmay5453 cry harder

Bullshit

"underestimated" is the most overestimated word in the history of estimation

I was in the Cavalry. They were our heroes

worst enemies of weapons are rust and politicians

Considering the number of blue on blue incidents involving A10s ALL troops should be afraid.

Dream on. We are lucky they haven’t retired the Typhoon yet. 😢

"Hogwart" as UK version as in of Witchcraft and Wizardry 🤔

As a someone who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 5 scots reg, I certainly don't. Their out dated optics caused many blue on blue incidents with our troops

@@RochefortTrappist I've seen the footage, and it was more like inept trigger happy pilots that was to blame, pilots who weren't flying anywhere near nap of the earth as this video shows. They were way up in the clouds somewhere looking for targets that they could hardly identify. They were also apparently under the impression that if they weren't American vehicles then they had to be Iraqi, as if no other allied country was involved.

The Stuka had the horns of Jericho. The A-10 has its "BRAAAAAP."

I thought you were gonna say they outfitted them with DEW and they flew in the pacific

And let the pilots and crews service transfer to the Army/Marines without penalty.

@@ownpetard8379 Yeah I'm sure Air Force mechs will be rushing to transfer to the Marines. I can see the lines forming outside now.

@@WolfA4 So happy that you see it my way! Together we will win!

I'm pretty sure it's a giant pair of testicles with a helmet that has a plane and GAU-8 strapped to it.

Ah, that ripping cloth sound...

Not being scrapped, this is the upgraded version, the next generation. Better than ever.

Ur right

Upgrades are important but redesigning isn't always the thing to do. You constantly hear how ground troops love the type of support the A-10 gives them and pilots love to fly them, how they can get up close and personal with the enemy due to the built-in armor that keeps them safer than other aircraft!! If it ain't broke don't fix it!!

It said last until 2030 as of now with more upgrades he was talking about the new engines

Some in the us wanted to get rid of it then best plane so they ,could have back handers to get a different plane but we’re over rule 😢😢😢😢😢

They're more impress in person. Was in Afghanistan, the sound of the gatling gun is... just wow to hear.

@@rettbull9100 Yeah, the gun sounds like the sky ripping open, and that's just on my crummy phone. Must sound like Hell exploding in person.

@@rettbull9100 Airplane go: BBBBBBRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTT