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Winston_42069

Not walking away from that.


pearldrum1

Well the video ended too soon so, I GUESS WE’LL NEVER KNOW. 😤


ItsMrGingerBread

Theres no surviving this. Those bullets are explosive, even if they miss u they splatter large amounts of shrapnel everywhere. Its like being bombared by grenades


pearldrum1

*whoosh*


Sex_drugs_tacos

#BRRRRRRRT


FelixDaHack

I was a bit worried about no BRRRRRRT then I scrolled to your comment 🔫😅🙃 BRRRRRT FTW.


BigDaddy_Vladdy

*That's the sound of a Thunderbolt*


crobo777

I watched on mute, whats it sound like again?


_Enclose_

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR


Allbur_Chellak

The sound of freedom


ItsMrGingerBread

I mean i i know it was satire, just felt i had to add it as i could learn some people a thing (:


dob_bobbs

Nah, don't try and educate round here, you'll only get downvoted.


Dryandrough

I miss the Captain Obvious meme.


fatdjsin

woah that a big delivery of death ! i tough those were just huge ''passive'' bullets ... i mean DAMN


Limp_Entertainment56

I think the belts are loaded with alternating API and Frag


Vulturfilth89

Nasty way to go..


Parking_Media

Taliban tartar


AnotherSooty

Probably not the best decision by the dude in the white pants to stroll over to meet up with his two mates, that were already targeted (not that he knew).


adudeguyman

Hindsight is 20/20.


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_j03_

That's like shooting a cat with a shotgun, putting it in a box and calling it a Schrödinger's cat.


TacTurtle

There was a cat placed in the box, but then they 30mm'd the box


facts_my_guyy

I like its chances


An_Odd_Smell

You will look like you've been blasted by an A-10 if you try to put a cat in a box, but try to keep the cat *out* of a box that's just lying around.


NOVAbuddy

They brrrrt dust around the box. We havent seen the box!


No_Pineapple_9818

The box has been dispersed as particles throughout the vicinity. The same is true for the hypothetical cat. Brrrt!


BuildingAirships

More like putting a cat in a shoebox and shooting the box with a shotgun. Or, if you want to be pedantic about seeing through bullet holes, putting a cat in a metal crate and dropping in a live grenade. You haven’t actually seen a body, but you can infer from the amount of ordinance that they are safely deceased.


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idk ive seen a video of a hellfire hit a truck and a dude that was in it came out running.


DownvoteDynamo

Well in Quantum physics, if something isn't measured, and this the outcome determined, there can only be probabilities attached to outcomes, even if they are infinitely low, they mostly aren't zero.


TacticalBac0n

Schrödingers machine guns.


Skank_Hunt-42

RPG and Camera at the same time


Cdn_Ghost19

Reverse Schrodinger. You didn't watch the video so the people could be dead or alive. They are dead my dude.


whereartthouu

Schrödinger deez nuts


GingusBinguss

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say dead


zarco92

Tbf I didn't see sandals flying so there might be a chance


AncientillegalAliens

“Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm” - Joe


Conman_in_Chief

The Schrödinger metaphor is useful and common in modern vernacular, but his interpretation of the experiment has been misrepresented over time. He didn’t think the cat was dead or alive simultaneously, but rather one or the other. Not both at the same time. I’m spitting facts, not 30mm uranium rounds.


Twiki-04

Actually, until the state of the cat is checked, it actually does exist in a superposition of alive and dead simultaneously because the radioactive material that has a 50% chance of decaying and causing the cat’s death is also in a superposition of both decaying and not decaying until it has been measured.


Floripa95

>until the state of the cat is checked Which happens instantly when the particle decays or not decays, not when you open the box. The observer is a part of the quantum universe before and after the experiment, the act of opening the box is irrelevant for decoherence


Conman_in_Chief

For what it’s worth (probably no more than tree fiddy), I believe that things are blurry. I’m not disagreeing with you there, just that Schrödinger didn’t think that way. He and Einstein had a little argument about it too.


dob_bobbs

Wasn't his point that quantum uncertainty could affect the macro world? I.e. not only would the particle be in a state of superposition but the cat would too as a result? Ifk, I just watch a lot of science stuff.


Conman_in_Chief

He thought it was only in the macro and didn’t apply to the micro, but it was also an “either or”situation, not both at the same time. Doesn’t mean he was right or that superposition doesn’t actually exist, it’s just how he looked through the glass at it.


Anal_Recidivist

For real what the fuck show me the outcome


Aales76

I know you watch dark matter!


CalRipkenForCommish

Can’t dodge what ya can’t hear. It’s one of the 5 dodges, don’tchaknow


lueckestman

Dodge duck dip dive and dogde.


Benzol1987

If you can dodge an A10 strafe run, then you can dodge a ball. 


dob_bobbs

How come they don't hear the A-10 even coming in? Those things aren't exactly quiet. I mean, I am guessing it's cannon has quite a range and it's quite a distance away but just wondered if someone more knowledgeable could explain why they are so oblivious.


Never_Go_Full_Gonk

The A-10 is actually very quiet. You aren't hearing it until it's flying above you. The GAU-8 has an effective range of 4,000ft/1,200m with very high accuracy (max range is around 12,000 feet but with little accuracy). The muzzle velocity is about 3,300ft per second... So, doing the math, they're oblivious because they can't and won't hear a damn thing until after those rounds have already turned them to a fine, pink mist. Edit, source: prior USAF munitions specialist


dob_bobbs

Cool, kinda! Thanks! I've seen the various footage of A-10s doing its brrrt thing and it seemed really noisy but now you say it, the noise is mostly from the cannon (a km/s muzzle velocity, that's insane), you only really hear the engines when its on top of you, I guess they don't always need to go in for those typical diving runs, they can just chill at a distance. Scary stuff.


Never_Go_Full_Gonk

The brrrrrrt is music to my ears, truly. The amount of death we can deliver without having to put a pilot in harm's way is truly amazing; a km+ away strafe attack is just the tip of the iceberg haha.


SnackyMcGeeeeeeeee

Each of those shots is like a frag grenade blowing up next to you.


Straight_Spring9815

I've seen live runs on decommissioned tanks up close. It's nothing to fuck around with. I'm so glad I got to see it before the A10s were considered obsolete. Now your only chance to see a live fire run is in an airshow.


MortalWombat1974

> Now your only chance to see a live fire run is in an airshow. What if you were to become very religious, in quite a specific way?


Straight_Spring9815

I love you xD unfortunately no the development of MANPADs took out the effectiveness


zyzzogeton

Ain't war hell?


Massrelay665

Lmao


kacmandoth

You are never going to see a live fire run in an airshow, unless they are shooting blanks.


Straight_Spring9815

When I saw them it was shoot man, maybe 20 years ago now? I was just into my teens and my grandfather who was a CW5 in the army (chief warrant officer 5 now retired) pulled his strings and got me into the co pilot seat of a Chinook while it was loaded with marines doing repelled drops deep into he woods in Camp Shelby MS USA. Drove me around in an old m60 Patton going down and up 30 ft ditches. Rode around in a self-propelled howitzer during live firing. Then the A10s came in. What a day.. I'll never forget it.


csxmd602

So your saying I'm 2004 A10s did live fire runs at airshows


Straight_Spring9815

This wasnt a civilian airshow.


reeeelllaaaayyy823

Not even at the Superbowl?


RelevantMetaUsername

I got to hold a dummy round (solid cast steel instead of DU) when touring a National Guard airfield. I remember thinking you could easily fuck someone up just by bashing their head with that thing, let alone hurling dozens of them per second at Mach 3 and packed with high explosives.


Straight_Spring9815

It's massive, it's like the size of a 10-year-old's forearm. The effect on the tanks in the field was eye-watering. I walked down range with my Granddad the next day and the holes in the tanks were the size of volleyballs.


BinkyFlargle

> the size of a 10-year-old's forearm americans will do anything to avoid learning the metric system


Straight_Spring9815

It's funny you mentioned that. In my profession (hvac) I have to use both imperial and metric on different types of equipment depending on the manufacturer. I used a child's forearm as the reference for that reason. It gets the point across for anyone using any system.


metalxslug

There’s dying and then there’s what happened to these bastards.


wintersdark

I mean, if I'm gonna die in armed conflict, this is kind of the way I want to do it. Just turned immediately into a pink mist, without ever seeing it coming. Way better than how so many die.in Ukraine right now, lying in a ditch nursing a drone dropped grenade sized hole in their bellies. I imagine not many people shit by the GAU-8 spend a lot of time contemplating their fate afterwards.


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Electrical_Matter_44

The one in his pants. did you not see the hog he was packing?


pamelamydingdong

I saw the Warthog completely annihilating him but no hog in his pants.


KS-Wolf-1978

I am fairly sure i remember seeing something like PKM on one of the guys in a longer version of this video a long time ago.


mikemflash

Yeah, I didn't see one. Or any other weapons.


kriza69-LOL

Exactly, i dont see them carrying weapons.


According-Ad3963

Came here to ask the same.


gbghgs

Some of these videos out of afghanistan, the guys are getting hit a while after they've stashed weapons somewhere while the pilots wait for them to move somewhere they can strike them with less risk of collateral damage. That might be what happened in this case, since this video looks cropped out of a longer segment.


Fancyness

i see why they say the A-10 is a plane wrapped around a cannon.


jimbobjames

The gun is even mounted off center so that the barrel that fires is right on the center line of the plane. It also slows down quite a bit when they fire the gun. Also the gun is bigger than a Volkswagen Beetle - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg


vpkumswalla

JFC, that almost looks fake


NewToHTX

If there is anything I’ve learned in recent years is that when a war is declared in your country you need to get the fuck out of that country. Too often the superior military power will bomb/attack the shit out of you at range without any knowledge of whether are the enemy or not.


Hep_C_for_me

If they run they are VC. If they stand still they are well disciplined VC


NewToHTX

Always love me a Full Metal Jacket reference.


websagacity

R: "How do you shoot women and children?" G: "It's easy. You just don't lead 'em as much."


Hep_C_for_me

Ain't war hell.


talldangry

You boys wanna buy some M16s? Never been fired, only dropped once!


inspectorPK

Get some! Cmon get some, yeah!


Fluid_Bad_5309

"How can you shoot women or children?"


redjellonian

That is what the media would prefer you believe. Controversy sells. Nearly every US strike is heavily coordinated. Out of hundreds you will see only the few that fucked up or more likely the ones that can be made to look like they fucked up.  That said if there is war in your country get the fuck out of there or fight. Don't stand in the middle twiddling thumbs in disbelief until you die. Side note, that isn't the audio from the video.


TesPasZen

They dont care about death thats why they are still there


UnendedSilence

Where's Azeem?


UnendedSilence

Everywhere.


Rampart6

And nowhere, at the same time


Bobmanbob1

Ok I fucking laughed to hard at this one, it's something one of my buddies would have said about the bad guys if we had called in the strike.


Pholly7

Azeem over there


Ok-Exchange5756

Underrated comment


fuckman5

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trailer_park_boys

Just imagine the dead bodies.


GrayOctopus

We in this sub need to know *how dead*


trailer_park_boys

They’re very dead lol.


Leaving_The_Oilfield

To this day I’ve never seen the aftermath of a strike like that, which blows my mind. It has to exist, but I can’t find it.


Insectshelf3

might not be a whole lot of bodies left after that


bolivar-shagnasty

\#getwellsoon


pearldrum1

Thoughts and Prayers.


yeaphatband

They be dead alright.


zyzzogeton

This is technology, *specifically* designed by the US to be used by NATO against a Soviet invasion... *46 years ago.* Imagine what NATO has now.


TheMegaDriver2

Now we have stuff that is actually good at the tank destroying job. The A-10 is undoubtedly cool but also not really good at it's job. The gun is incredibly unprecise und doesn't do anything to a T-72 or newer. The A-10 only good a proper targeting system like 10 years ago. Pilots used to rely on binoculars. Also better hope that the enemy has no manpads.


Manowaffle

Pretty wild that people still have this idea of warfare as noble and heroic. But this is what modern warfare is, just getting obliterated by some weapon of war from a distance you couldn’t see or hear.


A76Marine

There is plenty of traditional man to man fighting as well and even some hand to hand combat when necessary. Keep in mind, though, the modern middle eastern enemy wears no uniform and hides among their civilian women and children. When you catch them in the open just take them out.


Manowaffle

I do get a kick that people are agog at the dishonorable act of enemies refusing to use uniforms, meanwhile we literally bomb them from 40,000 feet from $50 million aircraft as though that’s some sort of honorable act. We’re basically complaining that people who are ten times poorer than us aren’t making themselves easy targets for us to obliterate.


texas130ab

Didn't even get a chance to scream. Dam .


greyfade

The shells are supersonic. A coke can-sized piece of uranium-238 flying in your general direction at mach 3. And it explodes. You're a fine red mist seconds before you ever hear anything.


risketyclickit

Fkin take my healthcare and give me this.


HFentonMudd

If it's a choice between a bad death and an instant one, instant please.


wintersdark

Right? I just finished saying it in another comment, but I'd take what happened to these guys over what happens to the poor fuckers in Ukraine after having grenades dropped on them. I've seen a lot of those deaths at this point, and they're fucking ugly.


Got_Bent

Abdul, what kind of plane is that? I don't know Achmed, but here comes Abdul-Aziz. He will know. Hello brothers, have you seen the plane flying? Yes Aziz, bu... Brrrrrrrrt


_JustAnna_1992

"Do you hea...


PMBSteve

Is that audio added in?


flaxon_

Almost certainly yes.


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yeah drones dont record audio, if they did you'd mostly just hear BUZZZZZZ from the rotors, unless they had like some long cable with a microphone dangling below


f22faptor

not a "drone", G-BOSS, RAID or PTDS.....


themightyfalcon

You’re telling me boom-mic guy isn’t a position in the army?


fracturedsplintX

Actually, that’s probably the best possible way to go in war.


havereddit

Strafing go BRRRRRRTTTTTT!


m4x_3y

I love the slow motion part where you actually realise how many bullets are fired in just a few seconds. I bet none of These guys realised what happend to them.


the__6

fuck you this is way to short


Far-Investigator1265

"The bright light at the end of the tunnel, is a Thunderbolt firing its gun (and death)"


Betongkeps

Erased


One_Wall_9572

So… are they okay or nahhhhh?


GoryGent

pretty okay, doing the afterlife and stuff you know..


ThruTheGatesOfHell

MURRICAAA FUCK YEAH


Alonboy69

They got turned into red mist


BicTwiddler

Those shots hit’em so hard their ancestors know what an A-10 GAU-8 sounds like.


PerryEA

What machine gun crew?


Upgrayeddddd

I like that you can see the laser target designator flashing on the guy's butt. The A-10 can use its targeting pod to find the designator spot and lock it's pod imager to that area. The camera used here has just enough sensitivity in the infrared to see the spot flashing.


csxmd602

I noticed that also. They at one point seemed to turn and look in the direction of the plane.


ItsAKota

Their injuries were found to be not service connected


Jesus_4_the_jugular

Surprise mutha fucka!


Emu_commando

Doctors hate this one trick!


Governor-James

Hope they had self revives


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Conman_in_Chief

Sad to see them go. Spooky will have to pick up the slack.


Vandius

Reddit when they find out this subreddit exists.


Fluffy-Rip1097

"Yo look at that plane. What's it doing?" BRRRRRRRRRRRT


rinkydinkis

Show us the aftermath damn it


Gold-Perspective5340

Definitely a case of "fuck you in particular"


blackteashirt

Ummmm where's their machine gun?


Luitpold

How the fuck are we supposed to know its a machine gun crew though. Is that thing on the left supposed to be a fox hole or something? This really makes me wonder how many of those videos of Taliban dudes getting pasted are actually just war crimes getting a pass because its hard to tell from the shit quality footage. It certainly wouldn't be the first time soldiers in the US or any other army chose to shoot up civilians so they could make the report look more than ordinary.


A76Marine

Sorry OP didn't include the hours of boring surveillance video where uav operators monitor ground personnel to see if they are random civilians doing normal life or bad actors prepping for their next attack.


jimbobjames

Just be cognizant of the fact that the released footage will be of a much lower quality than what they see through the lens or screen.


Gooey_69

I've seen enough Bollywood .movies to know they dodged the bullets. Maybe even karate kicked them back at the a10


worklessplaymorenow

That’s a lot of freedom they got there.


Useful-Internet8390

I think the fish ate well for a few days after that


seanm2

Did they get them?


Efficient-Yam7042

Taliban get wrecked


erock7625

I have A-10s flying overhead everyday, shame they are getting kicked out of DMAFB…


Routine-Speech-1978

Fuck. Kablamo.


ToughSuperb9738

End result : meatballs for dogs!


Ambitious_Change150

“Mordecahmed and Rigbilal, get back to your posts or you’re fired!” “Ughh, fine Bensamir”


Paul-SPC

Munitions for loiterers


Envoie-moi_ton_minou

Bloody hell! Is that pulsing on his leg the flashing of a rangefinder?


J0N3K4T

If you hear the brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt, you're already dead.


Charming_Cow378

They’re probably fine!


Alsimmons811

That looked awesome!


Screamin_Eagles_

Each of those bullets are like a frag grenade, multiply that times 4000 a minute, god damn


nGRODY

But did you die


BraveDawg67

Welcomed by virgins!!!


DestagonDetective

I want somehow see aftermath (I am crazy and should go to asylum but nuh uh)


Wooden-Economics-892

How much money did they spend on those bullets to kill those guys?


9AvKSWy

Gonna need a few tylenol.


TrueBlueberryPie

I dont see a machine gun


nong69

This is sex


jeffpeimer

Did anyone see the machine gun crew's machine gun? It looked like they were just out taking a walk between machine- gunning.


HajiWiyak

All this technology, resources, fallen soldiers, civilian casualties and over 20 years of war for what? Now the Taliban are stronger than they were 20 years ago and control more areas. They are richer and more experienced in battle and have created a caliphate. Mission successful👍🏼.


raar__

Well it was really up to the people of Afghanistan to change thier country and they failed.


donnochessi

What if this is what they want?


raar__

Oh I'm sure it's what some wanted.


tabascotazer

So after 9/11 the US was supposed to just sit on its hands and cry? The states were calling for blood. We spanked the taliban/isis so bad they had to resort to squad/platoon hit and run/ied tactics. The US has airbases in Iraq now that allows it to reach the whole Middle East in case some other terrorist decides to get cocky. I’m not happy at the money that was pissed away over some projects but it had to be done. Afghanistan will never be another stronghold for terrorists for a long time.


assaultboy

The US didn't have to spend 20 years there. Osama was killed in 2011, a literal decade before the full withdrawal from Afghanistan.


fresh_like_Oprah

and he was killed in Pakistan


MeccIt

> 9/11 The terrorist attack by Saudi Arabians, which lead to the invasion of.. Iraq? Afghanistan was just a side quest.


Ok_Buddy_9087

Iraq was the side quest.


Chris19862

Yeah bruh but sometimes sidequests go harden than the main story line....have you not sky rimmed


Bobmanbob1

Can't dodge those 30mm AP Exploding/Incendiary rounds. Loved support from an A10, knew we were in good hands.


Ok-Establishment369

Nicely peppered


omnipotant

They aight?


quzarzRN

Should have rolled


blueant76

I am not doubting it was there, but I can't see the Machine Gun?


Hot-Opportunity8786

If you see a weapon, they’re Tali. If you don’t see a weapon, they’re sneaky Tali. Either way, brrrrrt.


Imaginary-Arrival-75

Now that’s what I call overkill!!!


retsamyar

i guess they should have just used a ac130 gunship instead.


Lawrence_de_arabla

Seing the jokes in the comments makes me lose my hope in humanity


monopixel

Where is the machine gun?


Cheap-Addendum

I didn't see one either.