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Re:What It Feels Like to Fly an A-10 Warthog by standardUser on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:25AM (#25930163)
I imagine the feeling varies based on how many brown lives you end with each pass.
Re:What It Feels Like to Fly an A-10 Warthog by tyingq on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:30AM (#25930219)
Using anti armor rounds on people does feel brutal. Here's the size of the ammo in the main gun: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/77/6e/43/776e4327ed11dddd0428...
Re:What It Feels Like to Fly an A-10 Warthog by KMag on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:22PM (#25932616)
When we were kids, my brother bought a spent 30 mm GAU-8A bullet and kept it around on his desk. Were all of the rounds depleted uranium? We knew it could be DU, but didn't have a scintillation counter, and didn't bother to measure its density. He just kept it far from his bed and his food.

I know solid uranium metal isn't so bad, and armor piercing shells typically have a tungsten or DU core covered with lead (if nothing else, to keep the super hard core from abrading the barrel).

It must have been solid lead, or lead jacketed tungsten, right? My brother has 4 perfectly healthy kids, but I could imagine some kid keeping a DU shell in his/her pocket, in close proximity to their gametes for years.

Re:What It Feels Like to Fly an A-10 Warthog by robscallsign on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:37PM (#25936969)
No, likely an inert steel round used in training
Re:What It Feels Like to Fly an A-10 Warthog by fulafel on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:58PM (#25931437)
And how much meth ("go pills") you were on.