• qyron
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      1 year ago

      Regardless being what it is, I wonder why a few A10s couldn’t be leased to provide air support.

      Its a plane with little to no cutting edge technology, perfect for ground support and anti armor and entrenched positions.

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        I agree and have heard stories of Ukrainians already training on them. But, I wonder if depleted uranium ammo might be a problem.

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          1 year ago

          In the sense that is a controlled ammunition or a banned one?

          That brings to mind the fragmentation bombs.

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      1 year ago

      Yet.

      It’ll take some 6 months but then they’ll start having air support and soon air superiority.

      However, Ukraine doesn’t have 6 months. They don’t know how the US election will go, it they will still have an ally in the US. They MUST press on so into the meat grinder they go.

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          Yeah and they’ll need every minute of it to get to a point where the cjjan ico Russia out. F16 jets won’t come at.keast for another 6 months, they can’t sit on their hands until then, so until then, the meat grinder it is…