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Offline endicom

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A-10 Warthogs Practice Blasting Swarms of Small Boats
« on: March 13, 2017, 01:43:13 am »
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Joseph Trevithick
Mar. 2, 2017

The idea that the venerable A-10 Warthog is a “single mission” aircraft is just flat-out wrong. In February 2017, the blunt-nosed attackers showed off their maritime abilities by flying mock attack runs against small boats as part of a routine training exercise. But even more interestingly, the practice targets looked suspiciously like the kind of speedboats the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) operates in the Persian Gulf.

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Re: A-10 Warthogs Practice Blasting Swarms of Small Boats
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2017, 03:40:46 am »
Welp.... there goes Iran's Navy.

They won't have much of a prayer against Hog Drivers on an open sea without cover.

Not that cover would help them against the AU Avenger canon anyways.

Hope springs eternal.

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Re: A-10 Warthogs Practice Blasting Swarms of Small Boats
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2017, 04:01:25 am »
What's interesting is that the A-10 could be used due to the relatively short distance to the action.
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