The incredible Armata! There has to this day not been one destroyed of these! Not even damaged! Armor as thick as a Putins arms! Impenetrabel i tell you!
This is actually a thing - AV (and several other loitering munition manufacturers) experimented with what they were calling "daycare mode" (no, really. Fuck I hate them), where ground formations could fire a bunch of (ex: switchblades) off, then control would be taken over by CAS for transit my-ship-is-dragging-mines-style out of range of the base station to the target area for terminal control. It worked pretty well, might even be deployed now, but it was a surprisingly hard sell for the A-10 pilots whose job was to fly low & slow through an area picking up digital tethers while a bunch of jarheads aimlessly fired missiles into their flight path.
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Bohne93@feddit.org · 20 pts · 64d
The incredible Armata! There has to this day not been one destroyed of these! Not even damaged! Armor as thick as a Putins arms! Impenetrabel i tell you!
gex@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 64d
Gotta be the stealthiest tank ever built
espentan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 64d
It's incredible really, it is so stealthy there's not a single record of it taking out an enemy target.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 63d
Absolutely, no one nhas ever seen one on the battlefield
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 64d
Why is the A-10 receiving friendly fire from the M1A1?
PugJesus@piefed.social · 21 pts · 64d
Advanced indirect fire deflection tactics, they've trained for this don't worry
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 64d
This is actually a thing - AV (and several other loitering munition manufacturers) experimented with what they were calling "daycare mode" (no, really. Fuck I hate them), where ground formations could fire a bunch of (ex: switchblades) off, then control would be taken over by CAS for transit my-ship-is-dragging-mines-style out of range of the base station to the target area for terminal control. It worked pretty well, might even be deployed now, but it was a surprisingly hard sell for the A-10 pilots whose job was to fly low & slow through an area picking up digital tethers while a bunch of jarheads aimlessly fired missiles into their flight path.
marcos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
I'm sure lots of people were surprised.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 64d
Blue on blue is the A-10’s natural environment.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 63d
Yeah, but the A-10 is usually the blue, not the blue!
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 3 pts · 64d
That's an assist.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 64d
Who gets the kill? The player who threw the ball, or the last player to touch it?
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 63d
Because its a hog for it