Return from Syria: the importance of hundreds of pieces on the "Warthogs" of the US Air Force
A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the 124 Fighter Squadron, returning from the Middle East, are decorated with hundreds of badges. The aviation internet portal The Aviationist, famous among aviators, has figured out what they mean.
The squadron returned home on October 24 2016 of the year, after six months of service as part of Operation Unshakable Determination, which, according to the publication, was directed against ISIL (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).
Two years later, the Warthogs, still decorated with the same markers, fell into the photo lenses. One of the photographs gives a fairly clear picture of the means of aviation destruction, allowing you to identify weaponUsed by A-10 in Syria and Iraq.
Among them are 30-mm seven-barreled air gun GAU-8 Avenger, laser-guided bombs GBU-12 Paveway (LGB class), AGM-65 Maverick tactical missiles, all-weather adjustable (by GPS) bombs GBU-38 (JDAM class) and their " a relative of the GBU-54 class LGB (both are based on the Mark-82 bomb, therefore have the same label), 2000-pound GBU-31 class JDAM and laser-guided missiles AGR-20 used with the LAU-131A / A rocket launcher.
As one of the A-10 pilots explained, usually the 30-mm air cannon is displayed on the fuselage after the 100 shots fired by it, the icons with bombs appear after the use of two such bombs, while the missiles appear after each strike made by them.
- declared the pilot.
According to the publication, in Syria, the Russian Su-34 bombers struck red stars to mark 10 air strikes.
The squadron returned home on October 24 2016 of the year, after six months of service as part of Operation Unshakable Determination, which, according to the publication, was directed against ISIL (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).
Two years later, the Warthogs, still decorated with the same markers, fell into the photo lenses. One of the photographs gives a fairly clear picture of the means of aviation destruction, allowing you to identify weaponUsed by A-10 in Syria and Iraq.
Among them are 30-mm seven-barreled air gun GAU-8 Avenger, laser-guided bombs GBU-12 Paveway (LGB class), AGM-65 Maverick tactical missiles, all-weather adjustable (by GPS) bombs GBU-38 (JDAM class) and their " a relative of the GBU-54 class LGB (both are based on the Mark-82 bomb, therefore have the same label), 2000-pound GBU-31 class JDAM and laser-guided missiles AGR-20 used with the LAU-131A / A rocket launcher.
As one of the A-10 pilots explained, usually the 30-mm air cannon is displayed on the fuselage after the 100 shots fired by it, the icons with bombs appear after the use of two such bombs, while the missiles appear after each strike made by them.
If we put badges for every bomb used in battle, we would cover [them] all the planes!
- declared the pilot.
According to the publication, in Syria, the Russian Su-34 bombers struck red stars to mark 10 air strikes.
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