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minus-squareMulligrubs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-213 hours agoI’m not an expert, but I’ve read that A-10s don’t have very good missile defenses, and they will be pretty vulnerable in Iran, which is stuffed full of missiles The planes are like 40 years old
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·13 hours agoWikipedia says they were built from 1072-1984 so yeah, old. But we don’t have anything to replace it for super low ground support like that. Everyone else uses drones for that, for a reason.
minus-squarea1studmuffin@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·12 hours agoThose A10s really mopped up in The Crusades!
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agoBack when Fairchild Republic was called Fairchild Monarchy.
I’m not an expert, but I’ve read that A-10s don’t have very good missile defenses, and they will be pretty vulnerable in Iran, which is stuffed full of missiles
The planes are like 40 years old
Wikipedia says they were built from 1072-1984 so yeah, old.
But we don’t have anything to replace it for super low ground support like that.
Everyone else uses drones for that, for a reason.
Those A10s really mopped up in The Crusades!
Back when Fairchild Republic was called Fairchild Monarchy.