Can someone explain this madness

[MrNature72]

Not to mention the reactions.

Animecopters:

\"Haha, oh my god! It\'s a little girl! What the hell is that crap? A cartoonicopter? Shit that military must be dumb. AIM AT THE BIG TARGET!\"



Warthog:

\"SHIT SHIT SHIT SHI-\"
*BAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

 

[doctorwhoknows]

But the A-10 is going out of service. 30-40 years of having that thing beat against your airframe takes its toll.

And btw, the plane was designed around that gun.

 

[MrNature72]

But everything they\'ve tried so far just haven\'t been able to do as much damage or take as much.



So I don\'t have an issue with that.



Because when they replace it it\'s going to be just as effin manly as the Warthog

 

[Krosulhah]

Don\'t you just love that 105 mm M102 howitzer

 

[MrNature72]

Warthog: $11.8 million

4,200 30mm explosive rounds a minute

1 ALQ-131 ECM pod

2 sidewinder missiles

We have a lot of these.



And an UNARMED c-130 costs around 4 times a fully duked warthog.

 

[Comr4de]

the complete lack of military knowledge by anyone in this thread is hilarious



If you faggots want to bitch and moan about how a decal is going to make a large and pretty loud helicopter a target, and turn around and say that the AC130 is more viable, you\'re pants on head retarded. that plane is as long as a football field and flies in a circle. the only reason it\'s been so \"effective\" is because it\'s been used in situations where there is 0 risk of the enemy having AA.



I can\'t talk shit about the hog because it\'s a beautiful plane and probably the greatest flying machine ever built.



edit: why does OP\'s image claim that the pilot is american while standing in front of some bastardized version of the Mi-8 Hip

 

[Krosulhah]

I just saw some planes and thought i\'d just stick it in there.

EDIT: Actually, i kinda did, but really it isnt, And Also, Yeah, now that you mention it, that does look a bit like a mi-8

 

[Comr4de]

It\'s got the cockpit from the W3 Sokol and the airframe of the Mi-8. I\'m looking to see if poland made a version of the hip with a redesigned cockpit but I sincerely think the pilot in OP\'s image is not american

 

[Krosulhah]

That thing is definetely not American.

 

[whiterhino16]

There\'s this little thing known as \"fun\" experienceid in most human beings. This is made most likely for that purpose. You know, for a little bit of fun, I bet if someone in japan saw one of the air show planes they would have that reaction.

 

[FlyingDebris]

And they\'re being phased out as well. I heard they are being replaced by armed variants of the MC-130.

 

[MrNature72]

But it\'s how the picture was presented in the article I found it in. No real option there, I didn\'t want to do editing, so I just took-as-is.



And honestly if any was going to pull dumb shit like that animecopter off it would be the Japanese, since they cant even have a real offensive military atm.



But I mean seriously it even clips into the cockpit glass a bit. Why, WHY would you EVER DO THAT.

 

[zorozeenee]

 

[Keptick]

A minigun that fires 30mm rounds? How the F*** IS THAT SANE?????

 

[Keptick]

Does it eat planets?

 

[MrNature72]

It\'s like the Vagyr version of the A-10 Warthog.



It eats whiny bitches who want to go to war and shits space fascism and WORDS OF THE EMPEROR