Military Heat

I posted on Metacafe two videos I had sitting on my hard drive from who knows when, hoping that those of you who enjoy this blog will have two cool videos to see featuring the A-10 Warthog.
First video is a formation of A-10 flying above the clouds and showing off. The second video features an exercise, with the A-10 destroying all kinds of targets. Hope you’ll like them! Enjoy!
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The A-10 Thunderbolt II (nicknamed Warthog) is one of my favorite American military planes. Why is that? Well it’s partly because of it’s unusual look, and partly because of its trademark 30mm GAU-8 Gatling gun. Its gun is also its trademark, shooting up to 70 uranium depleted rounds every second!

When it first came out in 1976, part of the army didn’t have much faith in the beginning in the A-10 Thunderbolt II, because they preferred high flying, high tech airplanes like the F-15 and F-16 with precision munition. (Read more…)