USAF At Work Read before watching*Some could find disturbing

* some could find disturbing but I dont see how...

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> This video was
> taken from inside the cockpit of an A-10 (Warthog) by the
> pilot. It was a night view. What you see is from 9700 feet
> away (almost two miles. Four terrorists are walking along a
> street with no clue that someone is watching them..........
> from
> almost 2 miles away.
>
> The A-10 fired a 30 mm
> cannon WITHOUT injuring the dog nearby who escaped
> unharmed.
>
> You can see the
> gun camera shake a bit as the pilot
> fires; then count
> about 4 seconds for the rounds to travel 2 miles. Every
> tenth round is a tracer, so the bullets you actually see are
> every tenth; they are getting hit with hundreds of rounds,
> but the tail wagging dog gets the heck out of
> Dodge!
>
> Muzzle velocity on the
> 30mm cannon is 2430 feet per second.
>
> The result is that
> four fewer guys won't be blowing up women and children
> anymore! GITMO won't have a prisoner problem and the
> terrorists get their 72 Virgins.
>
> Everyone is a
> winner.
>

I'd like to buy that man a beer!

God Bless our armed forces!!

Disturbing? No. Exactly the opposite. I found to to be calming!

I need one of those for my car, for when trailer trucks blow past me in a snowstorm and make a white-out.

Nice shooting.

Had to be one of the best tactical multi-takedowns I have ever witnessed. Those weren't Islamic Trick-or-Treaters my Friends.......Hambden Bob

Montage w/music :



check out the 3:12 to 3:28 mark in the video.......boom.....weeeeee......flop.

2 very lucky dogs in those videos!

The worst part of the whole thing is that before they can fire on a target they have to get the ok from someone on duty back in the states.

Awesome footage!!!

We have some kick-ass guns! Launches bodies some serious distance! LOVE IT!!

That's proper justice for terrorists.

SMITTY wrote:God Bless our armed forces!!

Disturbing? No. Exactly the opposite. I found to to be calming!

Thanks for the support brother. I never imagined the prep work involved in getting aircraft up into the air to do their job until i was the guy doing the prep work. Man, its nice to see the end result on video. I'm usually fairly humble about my work but when i see this stuff i cant help but be a bit proud. BTW i have never worked on A-10s, only F-15C/D and E models and C-17s. And yes SMITTY it is calming, up here the fighters fly almost everyday to get their hours in and all. I live 50 miles from base and i still see and hear them, perhaps thats why i sleep so late.

samhill wrote:The worst part of the whole thing is that before they can fire on a target they have to get the ok from someone on duty back in the states.

A lawyer?

Even worse than that,probably Leon Panetta or Eric Holder

Its the wonder of modern warfare, if they have a target in their sights it goes thru the satilite system & the target gets verified before permission to fire is given. They tried the same thing in V.N. but we just had the primative radio contact, sometimes it was clear as a bell then all of a sudden nothing but static.