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Rockman2's avatar

And of course we know that none of that matters. Just as our destruction of North Vietnam didn’t matter. And all of the hell and furry we poured on Iraq and Afghanistan had little impact on the outcomes.

You are still playing with your plastic soldiers on the carpet.

ron's avatar

Getting within machine gun range is a thing from a long gone past. The A-10s in the gulf are coming from even further away than the carriers. They use refueling tankers to get into the conflict zone. As a result their loiter time is much reduced from that quoted here. At least one of has been taken down, probably by Iran's real anti-air which is missiles not machine guns.

Wes's avatar

Drones are even cheaper and don’t need to put a pilot in danger.

ChewToyo's avatar

Why would US sue for peace then?

DTShangers's avatar

Question: why must the A10 retire? B-52's have been flying longer than I've been alive & I'm no Spring chicken...

Rick Garber's avatar

Unfortunately for the western world, the U.S. came to fight the wrong war and Iran realized that the economics of closing the SOH is the U.S. Achilles heal. I fear that Iran has won the strategic war.

Richard Pate's avatar

Certainly it’s an admirable platform beloved by many. Your assessment that Iran prepared wrongly though. So, that Strait’s open then?

Sicsurfer's avatar

Americans jerking each other off about their war machine is peak fascist nonsense during a crisis created by them. May you reap what you sow

Sicsurfer's avatar

That is not the insult you think it is. Keep licking boot

Huck Y's avatar

Extremely well written analysis. Thank you!

Midwestern Dad's avatar

Sometimes people laugh at American work culture, and rightly so. But that love-of-the-game obsession with your job takes on a whole new meaning when applied to warfare.

Vast Exits's avatar

All you old fucking war mongers with boners for this shit…what a sad bunch of loser cunts.

MBD7619's avatar

Are all Americans war mongering psychopaths?

Sutton's avatar

It's okay to be a fan of airplanes, but this is article and cheerleading is retarded. Great timing though! Maybe it would be better suited to patrol America's borders rather than killing poor brown people for epstein billionaires and the synagogue of satan fake rothschild's israel.

Dragaknee's avatar

Keep building the A 10. Always been my favorite support aircraft.