An A10 At Work

[jfeiro]

This video was taken from inside the cockpit of an
A-10 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 which
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 dog is
unscathed.

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!

The dog, in the upper right, just safely gets the hell out of the WAY!

[RedMan]

Damn smart dog.

[Redpb]

wow! they have no clue. they don't even flinch until they are hit. I guess at that distance and the speed of the bullet, it hit them before the sound did.

[Pelon1]

Go Air Force!! :2thumbs:
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[Don]

It's nit-picky but those aren't tracers and they aren't every tenth round.
FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) uses thermal energy to create the picture you are seeing. You see every round 'cause they're hot. A tracer would look like Luke Skywalker fired his laser blaster across the screen. Additional evidence that you see every round and not just every tenth can been seen in the video when you can pick out the individual impacts of the visible rounds but not the impacts of the other 90 percent claimed.
Of course the fun reason you can pick out individual impacts in the video is that those 30mm shells are explosive rounds. Meaning each hit has about the explosive force of a hand grenade. Designed to engage and destroy vehicles; these dopes didn't have a chance. That second salvo was overkill.

Lucky dog.

[Iceaxe]

I love watching an A-10 at work. :popcorn:

[moab mark]

Are the shells being fired from the same aircraft as the video? The shells seem to becoming in from a different angle? Regardless, glad I wasn't walking over to take a smoke with those boys.

[DaveOU812]

Love those things. We used to call em SLAYER in Iraq. You'd just hear a crazy sound come out of the dark, see the tracers, and POOF, dead terrorists.

[MY T PIMP]

There's a good chance my brother worked on that A-10. Hill AFB has one of the best A-10 shops in the country. They do much of the overhauls and upgrades. My brother is the pre-flight inspector on the flight line. He gets in the planes and does the test runs before the pilot takes them out for the intitial flights. :2thumbs: