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douche on March 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard a...

As far as I can tell from this list[1], five A-10s have ever been shot down, while destroying at least 1500 battle tanks and AFVs[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_combat_losses_of_United... [2] http://www.2951clss-gulfwar.com/statistics.htm

tiatia on March 22, 2015 [–]

Wow. This is the equivalent of three Rudels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel

blywi on March 23, 2015 | [–]

Ironically some input from Rudel was apparently used during the development of the A-10. At least this is mentioned on the Wikipedia page linked above.

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