Aug 27, 2022  (0) Some might not know this but the A-10 American fighter plane was mainly designed to be the most effective machine to eliminate the Soviet Union tanks and other armoured vehicl... |
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FEATURED Updated Aug 22, 2022 Sometimes
I love being vindicated; sometimes it leaves a taste of wormwood and gall, to
quote the King James Version of the Bible. Please see
an article reproduced on the i... |
 0:21 Jul 22, 2022 “A lot of decisions depend on Kyiv and its needs, we are open to discuss the requirements and how we can meet them,” US Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall told a jou... |
FEATURED Jun 23, 2022 The following is a
summary taken from reports produced for Lockheed Martin's defense related news
service. And in a previous article, the US made what sounds to me to be an
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FEATURED Jun 18, 2022 The following is excerpted from an article written for
Defense News, which itself (despite the official-seeming name) is a pure
product of Lockheed-Martin, not coincidentall... |
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0:07  FEATURED May 27, 2022 Throughout
my 10-year flying career in the United States Air Force, the A-10C Thunderbolt
II, affectionately dubbed the Warthog, has been the subject of divestment.
There i... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 I have done it; spent too little money on a used car and ended up with a maintenance nightmare that ultimately cost me far more than a newer and better car would have. Maybe i... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 A-10s are the right thing for Ukraine, as we've written on this site. Former Assistant Navy Secretary Everette Pyatt thinks so too, and he spelled out his reasons in a March 3... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 A-10 Close air support attack aircraft National origin United States Manufacturer Fairchild Republic First flight 10 May 1972; 49 years ago Intro... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 We are a contentious race. And the newer and less established something is, the more contentious it can be. Almost 120 years have passed since the momentous achievement of the... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 Major Stepan Tarabalka, first identified then debunked as the “Ghost of Kiev,” is only the latest in a line of legendary pilots. During Vietnam, there was a North Vietname... |
FEATURED May 2, 2022 A week after the Pentagon
mistakenly said they transferred jets to Ukraine, the official Twitter account
of Ukraine's Air Force said, "Ukraine did not receive new aircraft f... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 Extending aggressively from the front of the Warthog is the tool of its trade, the GAU-8 Avenger (correctly referred to as the A/A 49E-6 Gun System) rotating autocannon. It is... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 According to the after action reports, although they may or may not be totally accurate, the missile destroyer Moskva, pride of the Black Sea fleet, was sunk by one brave pilo... |
FEATURED Jun 25, 2024 Is Russian aggression a result, or a cause, of NATO expansion? The easy answer— as we used to joke in the newsroom to many similarly thorny either/or questions— is "Yes".... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 I ask the reader's indulgence. Now that I have reached Ukraine and am assigned to a unit of English speakers, an emotional note might creep in. I've just lost a comrade in arm... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 Military humor can be difficult for the uninitiated, especially those who don't appreciate gallows humor crossed with sports jokes, all leavened with indecipherable-to-the-uni... |
FEATURED Jun 19, 2024 From almost the beginning of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, some experts and commentators have argued that Ukraine's battle to defend itself or retake lost territory... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 For a weapon system to have numerous applications is good, for all of the obvious reasons. However, there is a point beyond which using a weapons system for roles it was not d... |
FEATURED Jun 13, 2024 In
his book, The Russian Art of War, How the
West Led Ukraine to Defeat, Jacques Baud argues that Russia's Special
Military Operation in Ukraine is based on and legally jus... |
 +2 Apr 4, 2022 After nearly 5 weeks, there does not appear to be an end to the Russian-Ukraine war. Both sides have been claiming partial victories but what is clear is that Ukraine is not f... |
FEATURED Updated May 29, 2022 The philosopher Hobbes, who had seen the slaughter at the dawn of the era of modern small arms, called life “nasty, brutish and short.” One can only believe that this came... |
+4  FEATURED Jun 8, 2024 Today's attacks on Ukrainian language, culture and identity are the latest in a centuries long struggleMany
of Ukraine's challenges—and their exploitation and exaggeration ... |
+6  FEATURED Updated May 24, 2024 A-10: the plane that helped win the Cold WarDuring the Cold War, Western military planners were faced with a tough dilemma: How to counter and deter the overwhelming Soviet ad... |
+4  Updated May 24, 2024 Ukraine has had a long and difficult path to democracy and freedom It's easy to criticize the many half-steps, reversals and injustices along the way - and the legacies and sc... |
+4  Updated May 24, 2024 How to fight terrorists - whether on the ground or from the skyIn their excellent book, Conflict, the Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine, General David Petraeus and his... |
+5  Updated May 24, 2024 Air superiority is the key to victory in modern warOne factor above all others determines whether a country prevails in a modern conflict: air superiority. That's the conclusi... |
+4  Updated May 24, 2024 Appeasement failed to stop World War IIIn his excellent book, Appeasement, Tim Bouverie recounts the fear
of aerial bombardment Britons experienced even prior to the outbreak... |
+7  Updated May 24, 2024 Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from us - we promised to assist them if they came under nuclear attack or threat Ukraine has
a unique ... |
+2  Jan 18, 2024 The proclaimed A50 radar plane was introduced to the Russian army plane fleet as an answer to the American Boeing E-3A Sentry a.k.a. AWACS or Airborne Warning and Control Syst... |
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