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[venomsnake]

> The A10's minigun is ineffective at killing modern main-battle tanks, so I wouldn't say it's a raging sucess.

I love those improvised battle tanks by the guerrilas that the US has been encountering in their last 30 years of wars.

[remarkEon → venomsnake]

Yeah good thing no one we're dropping bombs on today has any armored vehicles.

http://defensetech.org/2015/01/07/us-airstrikes-agaisnt-isis...

[vacri → remarkEon]

You make it sound like the A-10 doing close-support is the only way the US has to destroy a tank from the air.

[venomsnake → remarkEon]

US also don't have boots on the ground. And it's not as if ISIS has the vaguest idea how to use what it has.

[remarkEon → venomsnake]

Yes that's right there's no one over there right now and that hardware is a black box impervious to anyone figuring out how to use it.

http://www.stripes.com/news/us/1-000-soldiers-from-the-82nd-...