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One of the nicest view in the world :D

Reminder: Fighter pilots make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY! :D | Also to be remembered: FRENCH TANKS HAVE ONE GEAR FORWARD AND FIVE BACKWARD :D

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Wow, this may be the first time this year that this video has been posted here.

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it was worse watching the tomcats get shredded

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This actually made me slightly depressed watching.... :(

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to think at some point F-35, F-22 will also be there on the chopping block it makes you think.. what's the point..

 

about the destruction process i think it would be much easier to just use a tank with mine-shredders mounted and going berserk on the A-10..it would cut it up much faster that this robo-dinosaur in the video..

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about the destruction process i think it would be much easier to just use a tank with mine-shredders mounted and going berserk on the A-10..it would cut it up much faster that this robo-dinosaur in the video..

 

But then the Air Force would have to come to an agreement with the Army and that is genetically impossible. :P

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to think at some point F-35, F-22 will also be there on the chopping block it makes you think.. what's the point..

 

about the destruction process i think it would be much easier to just use a tank with mine-shredders mounted and going berserk on the A-10..it would cut it up much faster that this robo-dinosaur in the video..

 

Yes at rational glance there is no reason to keep every outdated plane intact ... not for every aircraft there's a place in a museum. And a brutal death may be more honorable than rusting over years somewhere in the desert.

 

But in the other way it's a piece of technique which had it's story, it's life and was a friend of steel for many people who were engaged with it and nursed it over years with much devotion, from the manufacturing to its last flight. And killing it so brutally is sad for many people.

 

The only thing i really don't understand is crushing the A-10. OMG, even if there are no funds for its duty at the moment, put them in a hangar, but keep them. You never know what may happen in the next years and then the US is completely without any ground support plane. And then it's much more easier to reactivate a conserved plane than building a new one.

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Not sure about the A-10s, but for some aircraft, they are required, by international treaty, to be visibly dismantled and displayed somewhere other nations' satellites can confirm their destruction, in compliance with arms reduction treaties. To the best of my knowledge, that applies mostly to nuclear delivery platforms, though.

 

Also keep in mind that parts of the aircraft are made with exceedingly rare metals, and it only makes sense to recover the metals. Rhenium and Niobium come to mind; both are quite rare, used in making high-temperature alloys for the engines, and there's just not enough to meet world demand (and that demand is almost exclusively for jet engines!)

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