How The Air Force Fires Live Missiles To Make Sure Pilots And Weapons Function In Actual Combat
Live-fire training is about giving aircrews vital experience outside of the heat of combat and making sure the weapons they would use actually work.
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A-10 Warthogs Practice Blasting Swarms of Small Boats
The idea that the venerable A-10 Warthog is a “single mission” aircraft is just flat out wrong. In February 2017, the blunt-nosed attackers showed off their maritime abilities by flying mock attack runs against small boats as part of a routine training exercise. But even more interestingly, the practice targets looked suspiciously like the kind of speedboats the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) operates in the Persian Gulf.