14 Oct 2007 Wardak AFG HAWG 05 A-10 Gun Camera Footage
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- Опубликовано: 6 янв 2023
- Oct 14 many moons ago I was a small part of a great deal of people and equipment trying to keep people from dying at the same time helping support the effort to bring the heat to others who were intent on doing the opposite. Not too many times you'll hear me say "thank you Air Force" but this was one of those times.
Brief pause, then that first call of "good hit, hog!" That gave me chills. Scenarios like this are why the A-10 has long been my favorite military jet. It's fascinating to hear the coordination that goes into this.
Reminds me of the Star Wars movies.
“Good shot, red leader”
they are fighting against a bunch of caveman and goat farmers dude
@@xxdaggerxx5 and what are you doing?
@@jayday187 not fighting goat farmers?
@@xxdaggerxx5 goat farmers with ak, pkms, rpgs, and mortars.
You can hear the firefight over the radio! This is incredible.
Which minute mark? Thanks 👍
@@theprodigal7143 5:50
U can hear my voice at 2:18
What's even better is you stop hearing the firefight over the radio
they are fighting against a bunch of caveman and goat farmers dude, and still somehow lost
That has to be the greatest feeling in the world… to hear the infantrymen screaming that what you just did didn’t kill them and was possibly going to allow them to be able to get home.
Да, да, зато убило других людей, живущих на своей земле и которые не звали чужаков себе домой.
@@chumanyou1820 КОГДА КТО-ТО ПЫТАЕТСЯ ПРИЧИНИТЬ БОЛЬ ВАМ ИЛИ ТЕМ, КОГО ВЫ ЛЮБИТЕ... ВЫ УБИВАЕТЕ ИХ. ЭТО ОЧЕНЬ ПРОСТО. ВЫ УБИВАЕТЕ НЕ ПОТОМУ, ЧТО НЕНАВИДИТЕ... ВЫ УБИВАЕТЕ, ПОТОМУ ЧТО ЛЮБИТЕ. ХРН УКРАИНЕЦ СНОСИТ НОГИ РОССИЙСКОМУ ЗАХВАТЧИКУ... ЭТО ПОТОМУ, ЧТО ОН ЛЮБИТ СВОЮ СЕМЬЮ И СТРАНУ.
@@jastrapper190 это войны капиталистов, так что пролетарии страдают. Не стоит верить официальной пропаганде.
@@chumanyou1820 Взорванных российских вертолетов и танков в Афганистане больше, чем всего, что оставили американцы. Забавно, как ракеты "Стингер" выебали Советы из Афганистана, а теперь NLAW выебали их в Украине.
@@jastrapper190 Long Live Ukraine! Slava Ukraina!
Talk about a heart pumping moment for all involved - BIG SALUTE
My AO was Tangi valley in Wardak Province 2010-11, I remember when we were on mission we called in two A-10 gun runs on these fuckers planting IEDs in the road, it was the coolest fucking thing watching these warthogs do work.
When I heard danger close you knew it was a major shit storm. The F O did a damn good job directing the Hogs and Dust Off.
Yeah, and then seeing how FRIGGING close the pip was to the convoy when he cut loose, holey moley, the impacts on the 2nd pas where, what, maybe 50m off the road?
When u hear the danger close call we attempted to pull our turret gunners down, the hit was close enough that the slag from the cannon was hitting out vehicles. The only way I can describe the sound is wet bubble wrap being popped kinda like a wet repeated slap and then tinsel tinks hitting the right side of our vehicles
Most Americans will be shocked to learn that the military does in fact use metric in combat
Cuz it’s more accurate, imperial is just jack shit
@@dukephantomx9151 how is it "more accurate?" It is a unit of measurement
@@nooneofconsequence3847 It's more scientifically logical and related to math versus body parts. "i.e 12 inches in a foot, 5280 feet in a mile" vs "1000 millimeters in a meter, 1000 meters in a kilometer" etc. Even NASA used metric exclusively to get to the moon. The only exception was for airspeed and altitude that was displayed to the pilots as feet and knots for their comfort, but only AFTER it was converted from meters/second to Knots and Meters to Feet in the original Apollo computer programming
America is secretly metric
Shit I’mma vet and i didn’t even think about them only using metric for guns and mortars and shit. The airwing uses standard still.
Holy fuck that guy has some precise gun skills. Hope everyone made it out alive that looked like a big furball. Mad respect for all branches!
The A-10 is a great CAS platform. The trigger has 2 stages. First stage basically puts the plane on autopilot to freeze at its aimpoint (kinda sorta, more or less) and the second stage actually fires the gun, and the plane automatically adjusts down to compensate for recoil. ,.
@@RADIOACTIVEBUNY yup, I know all that man. This pilot still demonstrates some surgical gunnery skills in this video though even with all that considered.
@@RADIOACTIVEBUNY that's amazing
PAC system really helps out. When the first stage of the trigger is pulled it activates "PAC" which takes control of the aircraft and holds the pipper (aimpoint) dead on target and compensates for recoil, then when its let go, it releases control and lets the plane free-fly again making hitting targets and not friendlies much easier.
@@monika-Chr right, as I said in the reply to the other comment, I know that. What I'm saying is that even WITH that consideration this dude's skill is pretty impressive.
JFO training has come a long way since then for army FO’s. Not being JTAC qualified and probably not JFO qualified, I’d say this dude did a good job. That and the A10 dudes are the best.
The biggest issue in my mind is how all branches use such wildly different systems. AF wants polar directions while Marines use Grid system.
I think that was just a basic FISTer on the net-probably not JFO qualified much less JTAC qualified. This was just straight up ECAS.
I was 4 when this video was filmed... now I'm in the USAF... This is great...
that is fuckin awesome man. im so proud of you
@phan117 all though I'm medical... and my profile pick is my graduation class from Fort Sam Houston...
@@ExplosiveQuarry hey youre still going places, be proud, i still am. good luck with everything man, si se puede👍
@phan117 oh trust me, I'm really proud of what I've already done... like making the first ever morale patch for my squadron... every Friday, everyone wears it...
@@ExplosiveQuarry i would love to see this man, that sounds kickass as FUCK! god bless you dude and keep on kickin🤘
When I grow up I wanna be an airplane
Nice
i want to be raquel welch bicycle seat
It's 2023, you can be whatever you want 😂
It never crossed my mind as a child, but here I am anyway and I now find myself at 42, as an airplane.
and you can have sex with other planes. Mmmmmmm, with a chopper or a thicc air bus. Oooh, a Big Black Hawk
This is unbelievable footage. Wow!
"good hit, hog!" that made me emotional..how fragile we are, and how we come together in this moments
Thanks for posting. What amazing work by you all.
Hope everyone made it out safely. Thanks for sharing.
God, The many times we had gotten into a firefight in IRAQ and had both CAS in the form of fixed wing and rotary on station it was a sigh of relief. Even though I was on a tank, having fire support from the Tanks, heli's and A-10's were enough to deter the enemy...This gives me goosebumps.
Thank you for your service 🙏 🇺🇸
This had my heart pounding. GOOD HIT HOG!!!!! Man it was intense. I can only imagine the relief those boys felt when the 30mils were rolling in. The marksmanship was unlike anything I have personally viewed.
thats a lot of freedom dispensed at one time.
Glad you're OK man, thank you for your service!!
WOW, Great footage! Hog rolling in for his first gun run as the radio started blowing up with chatter, is fuggin intense!
Incredible footage! Thank you for your service 🙏 🇺🇸
Imagine if the A-10 had the sensor fusion capabilities of the F-35... A CAS dream.
Don't A-10 has a modernized version of itself now? It looks more techy than the standard one.
@@vash_the_stampede6570 this HUD is just a regular A-10C lol. But yeah we do have later blocks that are modernized quite a bit
thought it was actually getting that in the not too distant future, along with data sharing/communication stuff
@@themadmallard it have something like that for decades. Its just called SADL and works really well. These things like "sensor fusion" are just marketing terms to justify higher cost. Even the interace is getting simpler to operate and whole concept is getting better and better, its not a new thing by far.
@@TheTryznasensor fusion is really more for CAP and SEAD missions, not super useful for CAS
Communication is key! Great comms between those on the ground and the pilot, #teamwork 👊🏻
7:20 always gives me the chills
Man the A-10 is a hell of a machine, so good.
Awesome footage 👍
Those taps with the cannon is incredible. Finessing the nose with precision control inputs. Now that's my type of flying.
No way a fast jet would have been able to stay in the fight this long to get good situational awareness and place effective fire where it needed to go. We need to keep the CAS skill sharp and a dedicated CAS platform in the kit.
That's why the argument that an F-35 could fill the role of the A-10 is pure and total BS!
CAS skill is determined by the controller, not the aircraft. A slow hunk of metal with no EW is going to be shot down quickly in a near peer conflict
In a couple decades, laser weapons will be so sophisticated that offensive war planes will be obsolete in powered societies
@@johnflank8135 Wrong. The A-10 can complete a 360° turn in 3 football fields, which means it can keep the pressure on, and destroy tanks, artillery, infantry, snipers or any other threat to our ground troops, better than any other aircraft.
You ask ANY ground-pounder what he'd like better covering his ass, the A-10 or any other aircraft, and with a POSSIBLE exception of an orbiting AC130 Spectre, he will always choose the A-10.
Only an idiot would say something contrary to the A-10's record in war. Do you honestly think there wouldn't be cover for A-10's for ancillary threats?
Let me guess, your "experience" is in video games. Try serving in a combat job, get REAL experience, and then come back to the conversation. Clearly, you're a keyboard 'warrior'.
@@Jeremiah_Johnson139 The systems within the F-35 allow the pilot to get an incredibly good view of the battlefield and their surroundings, I believe the F-35s would be able to fill the role. A large J-DAM is probably as if not more effective than an A-10 gun run on enemy infantry and it is less prone to MANPADs than the A-10.
A10 pilots are a different breed man...
Yeah, that got my heart going. Great job A-10 Hog drivers!
As long as we use troops on the ground, the A-10 should remain in service! No other aircraft can fill the ground support role even close to the Warthog!
@Dartgame 340 a10 was the jet that shot down the most during Iraq regardless controlling the sky or not the A10 sucks if the enemy has AA
@@zergio1825 Not really, the A-10 is built to withstand intense fire. That’s why the pilot sits in a bathtub of armor. In a modern combat situation I’m sure it would not fly alone or without some support. It was designed and created to be remarkably survivable, with many auxiliary (backup) systems. I would suggest looking up some of the pictures of damaged A-10s that were landed, it’s absolutely incredible.
@@quinlanreed7162 youre right but that still doesn't change the fact the a10 was one of the jets that was shot down the most during desert storm
@@zergio1825 It was also one of the most used. Do more sorties, in a more dangerous environment, you're going to have more losses.
@@zergio1825 I don’t doubt that it was, but it’s a critical aircraft for CAS.
God Bless y’all 🇺🇸🇺🇸
The skills needed to hit and direct this fire. Mad skills.
Woo boy that was some dame fine aerial gunnery.
i love the excitement in his voice when he says good hit good hit! .......... thats some life saving firepower
God,... that takes me back....
Awesome situational awareness with the Hog pilot.!
I've known a few A-10 drivers out of Seymour Johnson AFB. Nice guys!
Did they ever tresse the infrared videos from 2004 with the caves blowing up? Those were always crazy to see how far the caves would go and people would be running everywhere.
Goosebumps from Hell! That was intense!
Holy shit that was intense ..... FCO, you did good!
I'm in my Mid 30s and being a big fan of Tech and Military Tech. I have just realized that fighting and wars are just making humans and this earth an unlivable place since centuries 😢
We all just need to work on ourselves and think about the time we have to spend on this planet earth 🌍
Real deal!...scary stuff ...the A-10 is a flying tank!👍✈️
INCREDIBLE!!!
This was the 10 mins of air support we received after several hours of fighting
I didn't serve but I don't understand why we have so much equipment and personnel that could be used to support an action that we don't use. If your goal is to take that specific town and you've been in a firefight for 30 minutes it seems reasonable enough to me to send in any kind of support to push through, kill as many of the enemy as quickly as possible and keep as many Americans and allies alive as possible. Is it war or not? There should be no limit to what we're willing to send in when Americans are being asked to risk their lives
@@chase152 Oh you sweet summer child
@@chase152 Ye let's just drop 8 cbu-105 on a little village in the middle of nowhere, what could go wrong?
We went back to that road a couple weeks later to recover the lost vehicles and dropped several 500 pounders, our Intel was the vehicles were heavily ied'd, the vehicles were not there
@@desne153 lmfaoooo
When he says “good hit hog”, I imagine him patting the a10 gently on the nose like a loving, loyal, but vicious pet/best friend.
IMPRESIONANTE...!!!♥
7:10 there you go
That burst was fatter than Lizzo, holy fuck.
You the man!
Brrrrrt that was rowdy!
Maverick: Switching to guns
Hawg: Hold my beer
I was a 13F FO/JFO, great video tyfys bro
That’s some badass shyt man! 😂
Thank you for your service too 🙏 🇺🇸
A-10, when you want to look the bad guys in their eyes before you send a bucket of 30 mike-mike between those eyes!
Fme talk about stress. The sun glare is crazy too
No replacing the A-10 hands down 🖐🏾🎤
its dogshit in modern combat
HAWG 05 THANK YOU! Hearing the satisfaction the ground /radio operator
It is the year 2123. Man has explored the cosmos, war has evolved into a war of technology. Yet still, A-10s going BRRRRRT are the most feared aggressor on Terra.
Need mini- AC130s eg converted spartan with sidefiring 75mm and 20mm gatling- can be on station longer
"you hit right next to our convoy. GOOD HIT" what most foreign countries just don't understand bout merica
I hope I get to help people like these hawgs helped the inf element.
Nothing gets me going like a grunt in the sky commanding the brrt machine to rain freedom from the sky.
Why don't FACs / JTACs use laser designators more often..? I'd imagine they're just as obvious on FLIR during daytime as they are at night ... and with a small lasso it's impossible to confuse the origin and target.
Is the radio link between ground and air SINCGARS?
All those voices talking loud and all at once sounds like my living room during Thanksgiving.
No A10 driver buys drinks when GWOT grunts are around
If the A-10 is going to be replaced, it needs to be with something tailored for the CAS role. Start an A-10 replacement competition and let defense companies go to work to build the next platform. I can only imagine what they might produce.
they are taking deliveries of militarized turboprop Air Tractors for ground attack. Its no a-10 but it is still pretty badass
The A-10 is perfectly suited. It's a flying tank that flies slow enough to allow it to employ accurate fire. Replacing it won't be easy.
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This is a a blockbuster movie in real life. Much respect for the men fighting and the chaotic chess that this feels like. A-10 movie Hollywood?
This plane is the grandfather you dont wanna die. The best airplane for the guys on the ground
This happened 2 days after I graduated USMC boot camp
What's the EARSHOT indication on the HUD? Bullseye reference or something?
EARSHOT is a marked area of interest saved in the A-10's flight computer as a waypoint or Nav reference. You can see little markers on the screen pointing in the direction of steerpoint EARSHOT while the aircraft turns in the video. You can also see the bearing and distance to the steerpoint change throughout the engagement.
It can be a bullseye, but the actual bearing for bullseye calls would be reversed so I'm not sure how often a crew would leave it up in the hud rather than referencing it on the nav display.
Does the USAF Washington contingent have anyone in it who has flown a plane? Look at the airspeed during this engagement. Their master plan is to replace the A-10 with F-35s and their fast jet performance for CAS. I think the high airspeed and far lower manoeuvrability will not lend itself well to the amount of time it will take to get into a firing position repeatedly and the amount of time spent firing. Good luck to those needing the CAS if time is critical. I'd also question the willingness to risk a single engined $70m plane anywhere there might be manpads.
Low and slow CAS is no more accurate than dropping JDAMS from up high
@@user-dq1je7zy3p You want a JDAM 100 meters from a convoy of people and soft trucks?
70m is the number to manufacture one. Once you factor in all the research we paid for, the cost per unit is in the billions. We gave up a LOT of cheaper hardware to fund those things, and they don't do jack shit as well as anything that they replaced. Biggest waste of military money in history. They'll be retired in the 2040's and be remembered most for shooting down a weather balloon. smh. I miss the F22...
@@speedycpu yes PGMs are accurate enough that friendly forces will be safe
@@NathansWorkshop The per unit cost for the F-35 is not billions
damn, the hawgz droppin lead so close to the guys, thatd be the scariest task, that's some fancy flyin, guys on the ground doin their job, GodBless our servicemen and women..I can only imagine.
Hi. Former apache pilot here. Genuinely curious what you're looking at when you squeeze the trigger.
How can you tell what you're shooting at? When I compare this to TADS footage from Apache's it makes me cringe. I wish the apaches were faster and I wish the A10s had better SA and targeting.
The ATFLIR can be "snowplowed" to follow the nose of the aircraft so you can get a good view of the target while nose on but generally you'd want to find the target with the pod first while up high, keep it marked and memorized in your HUD and then go in with the indicators in your HUD. Obviously when you're slinging PGM's you can do the whole thing through the TGP other than keeping yourself in constraints.
The Apache has the advantage of two aviators so one person has the ability to be head down in the TADS the whole engagement, fast air normally does not. Gun runs aren't a great idea in general but you actually tend to have a pretty good idea of where everything is and where your rounds are going to land before the trigger gets squeezed.
I am sapper12 in this. When I heard we had CAS on station my first thought was plz don't be an Apache. I mean this sincerely with no disrespect... You likely would have been shot down. This is the extraction part of a 4-5 hour fight.
I didn’t see anything and I still fucking loved it!
That wasn't a warthog, that was Jesus, coming to take the boys home.
Lest We Forget.
How does ANYONE communicate when your comms sound like that??
I could swear I heard a familiar voice in there… Nizzro from DEV?
6:52 Just watch those next 30 seconds.
Anyone know why they'd bother to mask the upper left when the gun is actually firing? Ammo counter or something? Is it just classified info so people don't know how many rounds the aircraft carries or something?
fantastic comms.
Bet those bad guys were using both hands to wipe up their crap.
I’m guessing this Hog is FAC(A) or at least very experienced. Hog pilots always do a great job talking JFOs/non JTACS through what they need to get steel on steel. CAS is their world and USAF trying to get rid of them is incredibly short sighted.
Holy fuck Warthog, great runs!
7:12 what a moment
Love those Hogs
"Not too many times you'll hear me say "thank you Air Force""......ok
I support bringing the super Tucano into US service or possible a super updated A1 Skyraider. The skyraider has an INSANE payload for a turboprop.. it has 2 20mm cannons already can probably be upgunned to a rapid firing m242 25mm or even the 30mm from the apache instead of the GAU8 which is too much for the slow plane. Adding a sniper/lantirn/PAVEWAY pod and it would be super LETHAL CAS option hauling 500+ rounds of 20-30mm and some 18 250lb SDB JDAMs as well as hydra-70s with the VAMPIRE guidance type system.
God I fucking NEED IT
They should be in Ukraine too. Russian armor columns wouldn't stand a chance.
Lets say an a10 is full loaded, how long before running out of ammo if it keeps shooting nonstop? Like 30 sec?
if it did that it would fall out of the sky
thats why they do short bursts
11 series guy here. Pretty safe to say if any of you A-10 drivers are in a bar with us grunts you will not be paying for any drinks.
I sure hope that they get better radio fidelity than what we hear……
Chances are, probably not
Just think about how it feels to see those fucking thick bowling ball rounds slapping into the roofs of the houses your taking fire from 200-400 meters away....
Nothing can stop the US Air Force.
Good hit Hog! Good hit! Awesome!
Good hit, Hog! Good hits!
The bad situation on the ground can be heared here. "this one is getting pretty close to you guys..." "just get in here fast!" 👍 Angel from the sky some times,( but for some ppl the grim reaper from the sky, which Is not funny, afterwards at least usually. Well those Who know knows..)
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"This is HAWG, we're reading the manual on how to turn the aircraft around. We'll be back in 10 minutes".
Is our military radio communication really that bad, or are communications overlayed to show full context ? ?
Its what you heard. A10'S are 1 of the few that monitor both ground and air frequencies. Atleast in 2003 is was that way and in this video
@@travist2844
Thank you.
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@@BIG-DIPPER-56 That portion of the Middle East also has some super fucky shit in the geology that messes with radio as well. That sounded like HF whine to me. When everything else is shit, HF works. Downside is it sounds like that even when conditions are good. lol
There’s at least 4-5 radios using this channel at the same time stepping on each other’s conversations, listen when the ground forces are talking you can hear the crew-served weapons firing about 4 feet from the guy talking- bit busy...
There's nothing bad about what you just heard. It's better than the rest of the world... look at Russian communications, and China. A joke compared to the US
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Hog 1 from the West, show of force