A-10s destroying russian tanks on the European plains. Nature is healing.
https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1549860972881403904
A-10s destroying russian tanks on the European plains. Nature is healing.
https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1549860972881403904
i legitimately wish there was more mods and jannies to immediately ban twitter news posts.
Black person.
Motherfricker you don't get to use yostuba, you tourist piece of shit. Keep spamming wojan or what the frick ever.
honestly no idea what youre trying to say dude
whats a yousuba
and if you respond lurk moar ill laugh because i know you dont know wtf youre trying to explain in english
Yotsuba is 100 of these motherfrickers turning your armor into scrap metal, kacap.
Can Ukraine maintain these decades old airframes that they've never used before and provide them constant fighter cover? Russians will be gunning for them since they're easy targets, and any cover means less fighter cover for other units. Redditors refuse to answer this
Absolutely, b***h.
Give proof (you can't)
Post Russian air supremacy in Ukraine (lol + lmao).
The A-10 is more capable than the Su-25, Ukraine is still making sorties with Su-25s, ergo they could successfully sortie the A-10. Get fricked Black person.
>maintain?
why? we have hundreds of them and they don't have hundreds of pilots. just give them a new plane as needed. they can send us the old one for repairs.
>fighter cover?
to defend from... what? Russian planes don't operate over Ukraine any more (they're too valuable to lose) - that's why the Ukie Su25s have been hitting shit with impunity recently.
I'm just here to spam UKR super soldiers. Get fukt.
>super soldiers
That's experimental mutant troops according to the Russians
tfw ywn be a Ukrainian Space Marine
Start with Ukraine, Poland is next.
Super soldiers to burn Moscow 2023
I'm only here to comment on Ukraine threads, what are you going to do about it?
Make inane bait posts for morons like you seethe over.
Shouldn't you be spamming antivax narratives in the /meg/ thread?
>America lives in your head rent free
>Black person
uh oh looks like you need to be denazified. Z
>t. biden/leyen camp
I don't own any guns and I never will. I will continue to shit the board up with my uninformed war tourism ukraine threads and i will be confidently wrong.
I will also be pro-Russian under the guise of disinterest or feigned neutrality while I do it
Fpbp.
If you're getting flak your over the target.
DO IT!!!!! UNLEASH THEM ON THE RUSSIAN SUPPLY CHAIN!
(Seriously, we're not using them)
frick you if you post tweets. A-10's require constant fighter cover or else they'll get fricked, never mind the fact this isn't like Germany giving them old DDR migs that are easy to maintain and transition to
Not only fighter cover but full SEAD. They’re easy targets otherwise.
Finally some fricking sanity on this board instead of constant ukraine dickriding. I always thought sending them A-10's was moronic, they were meant to have constant protection while strafing hoards of tanks. Plus, these things are old as frick and Ukraine likely doesn't have anything it shares parts with
Stop replying to your own posts, pidorashka.
just send a few to Ukraine. have them fly around Kyiv for photo ops.
it will drive the Russians crazy.
Kek this. The seethe from just flying them around the capital for a few hours would be worth it.
That's why Ukraine won't take them.
Same reason actual UAF officials say it's better to source Soviet designs from Africa/Asia then send negligible amounts of NATO tanks/IFV's.
F-15's or F-16's on the other hand would be worth the transition.
this. the f-16s could also do all the safe jobs the a-10 can do. and yes thinking ukrainian a-10s would brrrtt all the russian tanks is reddit tier moronic. f-16s with mavs would be preferable
I mean you're retiring them anyway. I want them just for the kino.
Frick off vatBlack person shills
Notice how the shill has no counter. You know nothing about war or aeronautics design. Shut the frick up and go back to grooming on reddit
A-10’s have chaff, flares, and electronic countermeasures. Russians have aging Soviet equipment manned by Mongolian conscripts and minimal SAM coverage. And the US is already in talks to start training Ukie pilots on the F-15 and F-16 (F-16 being the premier weasel platform).
It is quite literally over for vatBlack folk. They can kiss this contested airspace goodbye and embrace having total air inferiority.
how long does it take to train a fighter pilot? not baiting geniunely curios, I know that soviet union used to claim to train vietnamese fighters but actually just send its own pilots, which there are even russian songs boasting about that
From scratch, or do you mean training Ukrainian fighter pilots (who are used to flying MiGs) to fly western fighters? Like the actual tech school for fighter pilots only involves 6-8 months of actual flying. Before that it’s all aeronautical principles and time in flight sims. Realistically we could train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s in about 7 months. If we have to train Ukrainian servicemen from scratch to be fighter pilots, then probably 18-21 months~
For a brand new pilot, Bare minimum of six months, more like two years for full combat capability.
For someone who's already a pilot of a different system, that gets cut down. Flying isn't actually the hard part, systems familiarity is. Learning how to operate advanced weapons, radar, ECM etc. Experienced MIG-29/SU-27 pilots for F-16s might be the best candidates, if you really crash-coursed and skimp some 'superfluous' stuff you could probably get them decently effective in six months I bet.
does Ukraine have six months? seems more sensible to just send more rocket artillery
Neither side has a lot of pushing power at the moment. Barring a complete collapse which I don't foresee for either side this will probably reach winter.
I wouldn’t count on it
(me)
Besides, nothing's there to say you can't do both.
Realistically Ukraine has about 6-7 years at the current rate the Russian invasion is going. After that we will finally hit the insurgency phase. With Vatnik loss rates however, the war will likely be over by the end of the year. Putin ousted for this military bungle, same as with Afghanistan and the Soviets, and Ukraine using its now modernized military to mop up the vatnig sympathizers in Donbabwe/Luganda
The hardest part for Ukies is not speaking the language. For the Pzh 2000 they just had to memorise what to press when certain shapes of words came up on the screen and call the Germans via not-Zoom if anything went wrong.
Probably can't do that for a fighter jet, though, so either the Ukrainians would have to learn English or the planes would have to be relabelled.
Russians have fighter jets that can go above mach 0.7 and are armed with 30mm cannons. The A-10 will be turned into swiss cheese and the poor soul flying it will have a good chance of becoming ground beef. Grounded ground beef, even
This whole conflict has been pretty sparse russian plane wise, so doubt
E/A-18 is heavily superior to the F-16 in wild weasel role, it's not even close.
In the USA, about 3 years right now. But it can be done in 9 months, our pipeline is super long and inefficient now. Typically in Vietnam for example, 9 months street to fleet.
And yet the F-16 remains, hands ducking down, the premier SEAD platform. Growlers and Prowlers are a fricking meme (as are most navy planes)
Is there a cyrillic version of "Greater Incantation of Chankoro Banishment" for use against vatnigs?
Most of these wienertards don't even speak Russian, they just like their agitprop very much.
All those Ukie SU-25s flying around must of never got this propaganda memo.
Don't worry, the Vatniks will just shot down their own air-superiority planes first thinking they're the A-10s.
>A10s would require constant protection from russian air and AA
So you're saying they'll be fine?
there are a number of ground attack aircraft flying sorties every day in ukraine. the biggest threat to russian aircraft at the moment are their own AA systems though.
the air force wants to unload planes they don't want and make themselves look like heroes? you don't say
AF want those fricking useless budget eating pieces of crap gone any way possible.
>newspeak moron spouting memes and foaming at the mouth trying to fit in
You're a fricking embarrassment to your parents and the world.
its just russian bot. see previous response
It's just barking buzzwords and memes at this point like a trained parrot.
>you're ugly and your smell
The glavset ain't sending their best, it seems.
Based.
DU is coming to a farm near YOU.
I bet ukies can't wait.
>another wunderwaffe that kills more Russians than anyone else
Excelsior.
>A-10 is "wunderwaffe" now
I guess it's true, if Russia is reduced to fielding T-62s the A-10 would look like a wonder weapon against them
A-10s are garbage but they won't do much good sold for scrap. Just give them to the Ukrainians. They'll get shot down, but might take a couple vehicles with them.
Act now, because with the hours on those airframes, they'll be dropping like flies before long.
>sold for scrap
that's exactly what they will be good for to the Ukrainians
Poor kacap can't stop projecting.
>but might take a couple vehicles with them.
sure, the wreckage could land on them maybe. It's a long shot but it could work out once or twice
>A-10s are garbage
The are perfect for dealing with guerillas so the only reason to get rid of them is because you want to cripple yourself against guerillas.
At least they'll be doing what they were meant to do before they go. We'll finally see if the airframe is capable of doing what it was originally intended to do - shred old Soviet tanks.
I guess the Ukrainians know something that we don't know?
Maybe the HIMARS did something like taking out radar installations or the shoddy performance by the Russians yesterday.
But if they are correct we might end up in a new phase of this Ukraine war
A-10's won't do shit to Russian armour. It's a fricking meme.
>b-b-but missiles
Yes, that'll work... but that requires that there is no AA systems or Russian fighters in the area because A-10's are slow as frick. Against Durka Durkas with shovel AK's and maybe a PKM or something on a truck, the A-10 is a god send. But against a relatively modern military it is a meme and requires support that Ukraine doesn't have.
Just give them F-15's and F-16's, train tens of thousands of troops, give them more artillery and something to remove the Black Sea fleet assets and we can talk after that.
VatBlack person shill
Me telling them to give them proper equipment, train reasonable numbers of troops, give them artillery which is having a major impact and a way to delete the Black Sea fleet so a possible attack on Crimea can happen sometime in the future is me being a shill because I don't rate an aircraft that was outdated by the time it came out?
A-10 is a fantastic aircraft for goat fricker operations. It is not meant to be used in any situation where somebody MIGHT have a AA weapon of some sort.
the a10 sucks dude. its just how it is. I grew up loving the damn thing after desert storm. must of had a half dozen models with different paint schemes etc etc as a kid. then I got older and started to learn more about its performance and its design intent and realized it was worse than the harrier. its a meme at this point. has been for decades. its a lot like the stuka pre/during ww2.
I still think the harrier is BA though
Took a lot of evolution to get Harrier good.
Later Multirole is just better unfortunately.
P-47 better than Stuka
F-15E with cluster bombs better than A-10
Val vs Stuka?
kek moron
>NOOOOOOOO YOU CANT BE PRAGMATIC I WANT TO SEE FUNNY MEME PLANE!!!!!!
Oh, nice, false flagging.
>A-10's are slow as frick
Slower than rotary.......got ya
>But against a relatively modern military it is a meme
T-62 tanks, which were introduced in 1961, Got ya
>But against a relatively modern military
ok, but this is Russia.
The A-10 decimated vatnig armor in Iraq during the Gulf War. The 4th largest military power in the world and its arsenal of top line Soviet equipment got blown the frick out. A handful of A-10s would annihilate the Russian invasion force
close range support planes are a total meme and obsolete on a modern battlefield
>vulnerable to manpads
>vulnerable to AA missiles
>vulnerable to fighter jets
Russian fighter jets aren’t flying high because of Ukie SAMs. Russia lacks SAM coverage and manpads. SEAD and close air support is what wins wars. Russia has neither, and is losing to an enemy that isn’t even near peer.
>nooo your proven and effective tactics and doctrine only apply to durkadurkastan
>roisya strongest there is and doesn’t need outdated strategy like air superiority, SEAD/DEAD, CAS, etc.
Sounds like Russians are terrified of American planes
I just dont see a point, think about it - it takes roughly the same time to train a pilot for A10 or F16. Why chose A10? its obsolete, there is a reason the US has been thinking about retiring them for over a decade now
>doesn't want to see the pure kino of an A10 strafing miles upon miles of tank convoys and blasting depots
I thought NATO were supposed to be the stronger side. Get air supremacy and use them just because you can. Its like people have forgotten the meaning of shock and awe.
Because A-10s are used for completely different rolls than an F-16? Like are you trolling? Just because something takes approx the same amount of time to train on doesn’t mean it’s performing the same role
>Helicopters are vulnerable to manpads, fighters, and SAMs that's why nobody uses them anymore
Gigatard
A-10s were literally banned from flying in desert storm until air supremacy was achieved because they were getting blown out of the sky by 80 i.q arab AAA
I hate the delusional redditor COD players that have invaded this board
It's almost like subsonic aircraft that are basically turboprobs without the props are vulnerable to things hearing them before they attack, and are too slow to escape.
They have a use, but in static war the AA makes that shit too risky for anything but the odd rare CAS.
A-10 casualty rate was nowhere near what morons like you make it out to be
Air superiority was established from the get go
>Wont do shit to 15-30mm Russian roof armour
Lol
Lmao even
The shell is fricking wider than MBT's roof armour anon let alone IFV's. It was literally designed to kill tank columns. The only problem is how easy it would get shot down, and the lack of columns this far into a static war.
Early game if Ukraine had them the entire Kyiv push would have stopped in a day due to the chaos of the attack, the Anti Air let tons of Ukrainian fighters through. It would have let A10's through. Think.
>A-10's won't do shit to Russian meme armour from the 60. It's a fricking meme.
is that what you're trying to say?
>sending CAS planes that are built to be used in areas with minimal anti-air
>Built for minimal AA environments
>The 1980s Fulda Gap was a minimal AA threat environment
moron Detected
why the frick are we dicking around in ukraine? didn't we just do this with afghanistan?
they can handle their own shit. why are we still playing world police, and why are people happy that we are playing world police?
Because if you let Russia annex Ukraine, you change the global situation in the world and USA cannot ignore Russia any more because they have obligations with nations on their border. Because a Russia with Ukraine in a Union ala Belarus would be a global threat because it would start fricking with 2nd and 3rd world nations who depend on their grain, spreading their influence
>Hey we'll give you grain if you buy our military shit and let us have bases in the Med, looking at you Egypt!
Which means the USA cannot concentrate on China. It also means that nations like, lets say Rwanda (who are the Singapore of Africa really) could potentially invade Uganda to take their $10 trillion in gold they just found... or Egypt might invade South Sudan to secure their water supplies from the Niles and this leads to other issues which will affect the bottomline of the US companies profits. If nobody helps Ukraine, then China can go
>Cool, we can invade Mongolia and Taiwan and Vietnam and whatever haha 😀 Nobody will try to stop us!
And if your argument is
>But we would!
Then I refer to your own post of
>we are playing world police
It's like you asking why did the British help South American nations break free from their European allies. Because it was profitable to do so.
European empires, not allies. I am tired.
The US cant even ignore Russia now. It wont be able to ignore it even if it losses because it will rearm itself for the day of the revenge. They will likely join forces with China. Hell, it wont be able to ignore it even if there is a coup in Russia or destabilizes because that could mean nukes getting lost or someone firing them in the confusion. It's a problem from hell. The only way for the US to stop caring about Russia if Russia joins NATO after a coup or something.
>It wont be able to ignore it even if it losses because it will rearm itself for the day of the revenge.
With what machine tools, electronics, and workforce? All Russian military contractors, like Rheinmetall, Siemens, Eroglu or DMG Mori Aktiengesellschaft are all forced by Western sanctions to cut trade with Russia. The only tank factory that Russia has just closed due to a shortage of materials. It's not just the T-14 Armata - Russia will no longer have any more T-90s, T-80, thermals, fire-control systems, etc.
Wrong. The Russian tank factory has reopened. Second, once the war is over, I guarantee you that they will spend a significant % of their resources to either buy machine-tools or invest hard in domestic manufacturing.
>Wrong. The Russian tank factory has reopened.
Briefly for a propaganda photo op. It's closed again now.
>I guarantee you that they will spend a significant % of their resources to either buy machine-tools or invest hard in domestic manufacturing.
And in five decades if they pull it off then maybe we will start caring, but North Korea has been "investing" in that shit for ages and we could still swat them with a fart.
>wont be able to ignore it even if it losses because it will rearm itself for the day of the revenge
Which will take 50 years.
The current russian military is built on the skeleton of the mighty soviet army and is a fricking joke being ground to dust in Ukraine. And this is the level they achieved in 30 years
ok crackhead
>Rwanda is the Singapore of Africa
Uhhhh things have improved since the machete genocide, but it’s not anywhere close to Singapore. It never will be either. Maybe it’ll keep doing well in comparison to Zimbabwe or Mali but it’s not a pleasant place.
>why the frick are we dicking around in ukraine? didn't we <...> do this with afghanistan?
Find me one (1) person who thinks that the US made a mistake by involving itself in Afghanistan in 1979-1989.
>we
Die, vatnik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances
>why are people happy that we areplaying the world police
Unironically because the colbert show told them to
>why are we still playing world police, and why are people happy that we are playing world police?
Because as annoying as yanks are, they mostly leave you alone if you play the game, buy their shit, don't commit too egregious atrocities and don't frick with them.
A world dominated by Russia and China with their small penis energy and frick with people because they can mentality would be so much worse.
Isolationists are braindead
>Russians reinforcing with T-62s
>Ukrainians about to obtain A-10s
Lads, we may ACTUALLY about to see BRRRRRT wrecking tanks, against all fricking odds.
Imagine all the wreckage footage kino
Fricking finally, jesus. Just give them SEAD capabilities to go along with it. The entire A-10 fleet should be transferred to Taiwan and Ukraine as it's being retired.
i cant imagine these wouldnt just get shot down
Great way of sending food to Tors, Pantsirs and even regular Iglas. It'll suffer the same fate as Su-25s
>It'll suffer the same fate as Su-25s
Continue providing air support while cautiously trying to avoid enemy AA?
>Continue providing air support
Do ukie frogfoots actually do anything these days? Every aspect of this war is propagandized, and I've only seen russian su-25's in action
than you didnt see shit
No I didn't that's my point
I doubt they will, but they should.
Are we just testing equipment against a somewhat near peer? That has to be it - these things won't survive a day.
>Are we just testing equipment against a somewhat near peer?
Yes?
Once images and videos of them getting shot down by Tors, Pantsirs and Iglas surface, It would be the perfect opportunity for USAF to convince congress to allow them to retire the A-10's once and for all thus freeing up more resouces for NGAD
Once again the "/k/ has too many Ukraine threads, Jannies need to do something" posting ramps up when Russia isn't doing so hot, and never in vatnig threads.
Really enables the pistachios.
>WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH don't interrupt my echo chamber ;_;
have you tried killing yourself?
>don't interrupt my echo chamber
I'd like to know exactly where in my post you got that impression because it's not what I was saying at all.
I don't give a shit if you sperg out about weapons being discussed on a weapons board, I just find it curious that said spergery only seems to happen under certain conditions. Because in my experience, calls to restrict the flow of information only occur when people don't want information getting out.
>I just find it curious that said spergery only seems to happen under certain conditions
Dumb homosexual, if you post anything that could be interpreted as negative about US equipment or doctrine, no matter how minor, you will immediately get flooded with shills and report bombed until your thread gets deleted. Anything negative about any piece of US equipment, EXCEPT for the A-10. Because the shills who control the narrative on this board from Eglin AFB work for the air force, who is actively trying to convince congress to let them get rid of the A-10.
So start a more interesting thread and one of them will slide off the board into archival, like my cum sliding off your mom’s asscrack
The A10 is literally only still in service because it makes people's dicks hard
Give Joe Biden credit, the senile old fool is matching Putin escalation for escalation. Putin tries to escalate to de-escalate by saying that HIMARS is forcing them to try and take more land than just the Donbabwes, and old Joe immediately matches his ante with A-10s.
You notice how Russian homosexuals stfu about the ruble lately?
based moron
based liberal arts major
>t. wants to flip an investment on ruble
Won't happen, pajeet. Go back to your meme coin-tainment board
>russia is financially ruined because its currency is *gaining* value
>muh value
To spend on what? The Ruble is not as liquid as other currencies because of sanctions, so anyone holding it will ultimately have too much money chasing too few goods in the long run.
You posted a graph of the ruble gaining value vs. the dollar, but you originally implied that it's a financial catastrophe for them because
>line go down
I will say it again: based moron.
This.
Russia's economic growth will continue to eclipse the US.
Don't put words in my mouth, homosexual. You posted a graph that showed the opposite of what you thought it did because you don't understand how exchange rates work, and when someone told you that's wrong you just doubled down.
>strawmanning this hard
happy summer, tourist
Cope harder, tourist.
>inspect element
How do I inspect element on mobile? Keep coping moron.
>42 tabs
Why?
derailing samegay
What? Where is it gaining value? Also let me give you an example of how the ruble works. My name is Anon. I have created my own currency, it is called AnonBuck. Each AnonBuck is worth $1 trillion. However only myself and my cat can use it. But look, I say it is worth $1 trillion, so my currency is the STRONGEST and BEST in the world hahaha!
An alternative example is. I run a shop. It sells plates. I sell my plates for $10 each. Somebody comes along and forces my shop to close and blocks people entering. I then change the price of my plates to $100. I am doing better now! Look! My plates are $100! I buy the plates with my own money! This means I am doing better than before!
You're a moron.
These are olympic tier mental gymnastics. The original anon who posted that exchange rate chart thought that it showed russia getting hit with high inflation, when in reality it showed the ruble undoing previous years of inflation.
>it showed the ruble undoing previous years of inflation.
Which is achieved through deflation. You do know how deflation works, right anon?
Now post the demand graphs.
*cough* volume *cough*
why yes, it's almost as if having zero (0) demand for foreign currency due to imports being gone does this to exchange rates
Notice how they never post the trade volume
Thank god will live in this world and not the one where Putin's wiener holster Trump is still president, he'd give the Russians the A-10s instead.
Trump was so fricking unhinged and unpredictable Putin wouldn't even have dared to launch his invasion.
Nah, Trump was and is a massive coward. If he'd had even a little balls he would have marched at the head of his supporters on Jan 6 and stood a good chance of installing himself as president for life. Instead he b***hed out and left his moronic followers to take the whole federal assraping on their own.
I've known he was a coward since I watched him freak the frick out about ebola on twitter back in 2014. In fact it's known he was a coward since his non-existent "bone spurs" got him out of the draft for Vietnam.
Yet Trump had harder stance in the Ukraine-Russia question than Obama. He sent heavy weapons to Ukrainians whereas Obama rejected those. Sure, the man is a fricking snake oil salesman and a shameless opportunist, but he never was in Putin's pocket. In case of a major war like this, a populist like Trump would most likely be demanding even harder measures against Russia to capitalize on the pro-Ukrainian sentiment.
Not sure if moronic low information voter or shill. Trump is the reason Vanya decided to go for Ukraine again
>Trump is the reason Vanya decided to go for Ukraine again
Trump hasn't been in power for 2 years now, how is it his fault now? Putin didn't invade during Trump's reign. Pulling out of Afghanistan pants down on the other hand showed every second rate dictator that US is hesitant to commit to new conflicts.
If Trump got a second term he was going to pull out of NATO and leave Ukraine to fend for themselves. Remember he already tried to blackmail them by withholding some of the very weapons they're using against vatnik to have the Ukrainians interfere in he election on his behalf.
Also Trump didn't want to send the weapons in the first place, he was being mandated by Congress and the Constitution, just like how he didn't want to put sanctions on Russia.
>biden vice president when crimea is stolen
>biden president when he tries to steal the rest
>somehow this is Trump's fault
fricking TDS morons
I would like to wish all Russians, Serbs, and shills a very happy AIDs
If you dont see current Ukranian aviation doing anything other than lobbing rockets with pop-up attacks you sure as shit aint gonna see A-10s doing gun runs on Russian positions, at best, they will be lobbing Mavs or APKWS
So you are going to waste billions on capability, which if you start working on it today, might be at best ready in 3-6 months, and you achieve the same result as using HIMARS or Excaliber which are already fielded
>same result as using HIMARS or Excaliber which are already fielded
So you are going to give the Ukr forces a hundred HIMARS plus the 'ammo' ....nice
Ukie aviation isn’t the one lobbing rockets, that’s ruskie aviation. Ukies are consistently striking behind enemy lines and even in Russia itself. All against “the unstoppable russian air defense.”
Lol, turns out that was a Soviet lie. They had inferior planes and inferior AA
keep in mind that all the ukrainian rockets need to be guided into their targets manually. They have nothing that can do fire and forget missiles. That alone would make the A-10 a huge upgrade.
>A-10 will BRAAAAP on russian subhumans in my lifetime
please make it happen
Why send completely useless trash to Ukraine? A-10 might work against taliban hiding in caves but it's useless against any army with heavy equipment. Even one that is complete shit like Russia have.
Yes comrade I am John Coolman from Columbus Oblast and am of agreeing, we must ask Premier Biden to stop this war against superior Ruskiya A-10 resistant armor
That's not surprising, the airforce fricking hates A-10s they would've been gone decades ago if it weren't for the congressmen who want them around
The black market is gonna get a influx in supply of A10s soon I see, very cool.
Cry more, vatBlack person.
The only one b***hing here is (you).
Just like they did in Kosovo
https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AUPress/Books/B_0090_HAAVE_HAUN_A10S_OVER_KOSOVO.pdf
MORE HIGHWAYS OF DEATH
A-10 excels at CAS during asymmetrical warfare only. this is the opposite situation; Ukrainian control of the air is tenuous at best and Russia has plentiful ground-to-air assets. i pity anybody flying an A-10 in this war.
A10s would absolutely get their shit pushed in in ukraine right now
The AD on both sides is murderous
I dont think Kyiv has a need for a plane that is kept in service only by boomer pleads for a meme plane which has been surpassed by all its contemporaries 20 years ago.
Ohhh god Im gonna fricking bust a nut if this shit actually happens.... Imagine we actually do train ans send our A10s.... we just cant stop their... while we can provide AWACs intelligence we would also have to send F16s for an air superiority role to support the A10s and we would have to send a Wild Weisal role which could ostensibly be done by the F16s but you wouldnt want to risk those aircraft so maybe we whip out the mothballed F4E fleets... or ask Japan for theirs to fullfill that role.... Imagine /k/ F4s perform HARM missions in Ukraine that are followed up with furball level Ukrainian F16, Mig 29 and SU 27s vs Russian Mig 35s and SU 57s. All while A10s start mission killing Russias Autistic Armata wunder weapons kek. God please let it come to pass.
aircraft would be pretty defenseless against AAs and fighters not to mentions the air bases will be the subject to missile strikes
I think Ukraine could still make use of them.
Pick around the edges. Support after rocket barrages in areas that are about to collapse. The idea is combined arms, right? It's not the A-10 trying to solo the entire Russian army.
Russian soldiers already dealing with nightly HIMARS attacks - they will absolutely shit themselves when they hear brrrrrrt brrrrrrrrrt in the night.