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  • superkret@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    the A-10 is the most successful close air support aircraft ever.

    Yes, because America’s enemies during that time didn’t have planes of their own, air defense, shoulder-fired weapons or machine guns.
    What they had was old AK’s, Soviet artillery shells filled with fertilizer, Casio watches and Nokia phones. (Oh, and they won.)