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(NSFW) A-10 Warthog Gun Run Wipes Out Entire Taliban Patrol
Published 2 years ago
Epic footage from Operation Enduring Freedom, America's War in Afghanistan, shows an entire foot patrol of Taliban insurgents getting obliterated by an A-10 Thunderbolt II, more commonly referred to as the "Warthog."
The enemy fighters were withdrawing after an attack on a US combat outpost (COP) when the close air support aircraft came on station. A J-Lens type thermal observation camera was able to keep an eye on the exfiltrating insurgents and relay their location to the pilot.
A single strafing run down the irrigation ditch kills or injures all of the fighters, but the pilot is thorough in his work. He repeats the strafing run multiple times and also fires some high explosive ordnance until the job is done.
