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YRight which is why I commented specifically to that. Theres a number of ways for us to give a pilot the ground picture. Frankly its...
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YNot a FARP per se. We’ll see, but I’d bet those 130s were not newer MCs, and that they (and the Little Birds) were worst-case planned...
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YLots of photos of what's left for those that want to try and CSI the exact types. There is also an image of a "skull" floating around...
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.To be clear, I don't think identification is a primary task. But providing an accurate picture to somebody arriving on scene, while in...
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.In that situation it's highly unlikely your ROEs will allow an A-10 to go "brrrrrtttt" either.
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.Topical....
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.Sure. But just a reminder that unmanned doesn't always equal remotely operated. Loitering munitions can do autonomous target...
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.We posted at the same time. But essentially correct. We're already testing ALEs out of Griffons. They can be ground launched like...
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YRight now JTACs work, more or less in FOO/JTAC teams with some folks doing guns and some the aircraft. The issue that I see is that...
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.Doesn't have to be. But right now if we're talking about weaponizing an MV-75 to replace an Apache it probably would be manned. The...
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.There's the combat cloud concept. It essentially builds on what the Ukrainians are doing with artillery right now. Extend that to air...
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YI think that the days of the JTAC - as we know him - is numbered. Not that there won't be "terminal attack controllers" up forward, but...
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.Till now the problem was that the Chinook (157 kts) flies faster than the Apache (143 kts). So essentially any package you construct is...
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.I think people are forgetting that the ultimate authority in this situation is the JTAC. They are the one calling for fire. Everybody...
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Yytz replied to the thread A-10 Warthog.Tank buster and even during the Cold War those guys only expected to survive two weeks. They were going to sacrifice themselves...
