My job sucks...

[Sharpienads]

Like Sharpie said, they do it all the time... in fact if they're the only air support on station/available, they can go "hot" with guns if heavy ordinance is either unnecessary or too risky or not approved. I'd rather have an AH-64 come in hot with their guns, but an Eagle or a Falcon is better than nothing.

Apaches are cool, too. But I would take the A-10 over anything else. And besides, 30 millimeters of high explosive incendiary rounds and armor piercing depleted uranium rounds make me feel kinda funny in my pants.

ETA: I wonder what kind of form the ATF would make me fill out to get my own GAU-8 Avenger?

[clublights]

Apaches are cool, too. But I would take the A-10 over anything else. And besides, 30 millimeters of high explosive incendiary rounds and armor piercing depleted uranium rounds make me feel kinda funny in my pants.

ETA: I wonder what kind of form the ATF would make me fill out to get my own GAU-8 Avenger?

Didn't the Iraqi's nickname it something like "Whispering Death" ?

[Danimal]

Didn't the Iraqi's nickname it something like "Whispering Death" ?

No, it think it was something like "oh f@$k my torso just exploded" but my translation might be a little rusty.

OP, cool videos thanks for posting!

[Sharpienads]

Didn't the Iraqi's nickname it something like "Whispering Death" ?

I don't know. The name sounds vaguely familiar. Sometimes, depending on your position in relation to the target and the aircraft, you can hear the rounds explode on target before you hear them being fired. Of course, if they're being shot at you, you don't hear them at all. Maybe that's where the "whispering death" comes from.

[clublights]

No, it think it was something like "oh f@$k my torso just exploded" but my translation might be a little rusty.

OP, cool videos thanks for posting!

You owe me a keyboard... Mines fulla kool-aid now.

[clublights]

Apparently that was the M1 Abrams they nicknamed Whispering Death.


http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/ne...ng-death01.htm

[DangerLee_Industries]

I just ate my boot to make my day more interesting. Thanks bunches.......... But seriously that's really cool...

[sniper7]

very cool! My favorite plane is the A-10. I still wish I would have enlisted so I could have flown them.

[HoneyBadger]

You owe me a keyboard... Mines fulla kool-aid now.

Clublights, I thought we told you to quit drinkin' the kool-aid!

[Bailey Guns]

When was the last time an F-16 actually strafed anyone? I thought they just hung out at cruising altitude and dropped their LGBs from there?

I think they played a pretty significant role in the Robert's Ridge battle...coulda been F-15s, though.

Cool videos. Too bad you have to be in MS.