A-10C Thunderbolt II hit on enemy vehicle in Iraq

[ZippStuff]

This is not an A-10, but rather an Apache or Cobra gunship. A-10's only shoot directly in line of flight and this one is shooting off to the side as per the flight direction in the video. That's from a helicopter chin-gun.

[macieksoft]

@ZippStuff Not THIS IS MFD VIEV FROM A10C noot from cobra, read more about air operations before posting comment. There other aircraft shoots seen on wingmans targeting pod. This is very popular tactics, ine aircraft shooting secound recording its shoots.

@devilazpl You are silly, there is NOT GAME there is real A10C recording from MFD with TGP page.

The covered places layout suggest there is litening 2 targeting pod (not sniperXR).

I seen other videos without covered data.

[OHTEHWIN]

@ZippStuff It's not an Apache or Cobra, it's from another aircraft observing the target. It helps with damage assessment, and if needed the second aircraft (most like another A-10) can swoop in on said target for another run very quickly instead of waiting for the first to repostition.

[marc15yo]

@ZippStuff no you're wrong it's another a-10c looking through it's targeting pod.

[Spitzenhund]

@ZippStuff This is probably video from a AFAC or JTAC or a wingman no way in hell unless you have a flight of cobra's can they put that many rounds down that fast

[devilazpl]

is it gameplay from battlefield 3?

[chrisdavidi]

cod . . .

[SKUMMASBAGGUS]

Hooray!!! theres no call of duty comments here!!!

[mrcaliman95]

@SKUMMASBAGGUS until you showed up

[ablahblah54]

@SKUMMASBAGGUS I honestly thought I'd see a couple of CoD fanboys thinking that the little moving dot was an enemy soldier running around. Thankfully, we can watch the Warthog's awesomeness in peace!

[zeppelin67637]

@SKUMMASBAGGUS <~~~~I see a call of duty comment

[weasel75]

I expected to see more of the secondary explosion .... at least some fuel-tank or so?

[bubbascoutreb]

@noradnorthcom RIGHT AGAIN!NORTH AMERICA FIREPOWER KILLS EM DEAD!

[stoopidoooo]

this sorta looks like a videogame :/?

[SexyToshi]

INSTANT VAPORISATION

[mushileckerle]

is it a UAV or a AC 130 that spec that ?

[rammen4]

@mushileckerle UAV

They wouldnt send a c-130 just for a recon mission (:

[Garadonce]

Whats with the grey patches on the cam?

[ericx777]

@Garadonce They're called OPSEC bars! LOL!

[drewren1231]

That's not the cannon it's cluster bombs set to ripple 2, you can see 2 distinct paths. It could have even been a f-16or f-15

[DrMotorDude]

Nope, that's GAU 8. (automatic cannon.)

[TheLonelyFissh]

Cluster Bomb?

[heiheit]

30mm Gau-8 Cannon.

[tac38058]

Nope the 30mm canon....

[spinfrak]

As long as one controls the Airspace above the target zone...the A-10C is going to wreak some serious havoc for the foreseeable future.

The GAU-8 is a beast. I presume the upgrades enhanced accuracy?

[YZach]

@spinfrak Nope, just precision weapons upgrades, so it can use JDAMS now.

[JuiKido]

@spinfrak Most of the upgrades are in-cockpit.

New stick, One more MFCD(Small screen), easier weapon managment system, so on and so forth.

[ryuk200125]

well the plane sure is umm well scary because i wouldnt want to be in its path

[pewpewetc]

bye bye

[ladybegood64]

I never caught the call sign of the pilots that supported this mission for us, but they did fantastic work. The area is pretty quiet any more, but hard to imagine while we were there when this happened.