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

On 15 October 2007, A-10C Thunderbolt IIs assigned to the 104 EFS strafed an enemy vehicle with 30MM cannon fire west of Al Haswah, Iraq. The 30MM munitions impacted on the target area with good hits. JTAC declared the strike was successful.

Impact: 30MM cannon rounds hit the target with the desired effect.

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[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?

[mrcaliman95]

@SKUMMASBAGGUS until you showed up

[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

[marc15yo]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[zeppelin67637]

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

[devilazpl]

is it gameplay from battlefield 3?

[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!

[chrisdavidi]

cod . . .