Recent content by ytz

At this point just enjoy the show.

I'm not trying to shift goalposts here. The USAF has tried to retire it for years because they know it's not survivable in a near-peer fight. Iran is proving this in spades. Bunch of A-10 drivers saying they love their machine during the GWOT years has no bearing on this.

Ask them if they'd rather fly an A-10 in the same threat environnement.

Ever met any pilot who doesn't swear the equipment he's on is awesome?

The more he talks the high oil prices go. I ain't complaining. But long term.... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-06/the-petrodollar-loop-supporting-the-treasury-market-is-broken Archive link: https://archive.is/UpE2M

It's easy to cynical. But I think the dude just doesn't like actual politics that much. He just wants to do some policy wonk stuff and move on.

Pilots are among the most hostile towards the platform. They care more about staying alive than living internet meme life.

More beyond that too. Who exactly is it that sees a plane coming towards them really fast and goes, "Well that's an F-16. Not an A-10. So it doesn't matter."

The crisis is like a bow wave. Hit Asia first. Now it's starting to hit Europe. Few more weeks and it'll reach our shores. I suspect that realization is starting to get through to Trump. Which is why we're starting to see the panicky posts.

We're just going to ignore them getting shot down in the Gulf War, the invasion of Iraq and now in Iran, I guess.

Why does it have to be an A-10? The same was done with F-16s, F-15s and F-18s during the GWOT.

Looks desperate. Not sure why he'd post this. But I'm not sure the regime is going to see this as anything but their strategy working.

To be clear, I don't think identification is a primary task. But providing an accurate picture to somebody arriving on scene, while in contact, is still a sensitive and difficult task with a clock ticking.

In that situation it's highly unlikely your ROEs will allow an A-10 to go "brrrrrtttt" either.

Topical....