Watching Servicemen And Women Reload The Air Force’s Largest Combat Jet Gun Is Quite The Spectacle
10 years ago

The amount of awe-inspiring toys that our military has to play with is seemingly never-ending. It’s at the point where if somebody told me that our Army is now using radioactive pepper spray paired with brain scan technology so that we can blind terrorists and see what they’re thinking with the click of a canister, I’d fall for it.

I’d never heard of the Air Force’s GAU-8 Avenger until now, but I’m thankful I did. Watching all the hard work that goes into reloading this thing by our servicemen and women, and then seeing the sheer destructive power the Avenger possesses, has given me a nice military boner to close out the workday.

Yeah, don’t fuck with us.

[via YouTube]

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    2. maroonandgold

      They were talking about decommissioning it and sending it to the graveyard. How can you destroy such a beautiful machine of American greatness?

      10 years ago at 7:33 pm
  5. USAF

    It’s cool until you’re the one who has to reload it. It’s just a gigantic pain in the ass

    10 years ago at 5:21 pm
  11. JakeSC95

    Thank the liberals for totally eliminating the USAF A-10 warthog. Fuck them. My job in the army as a JFO Forward observer is to call these in and put them on target, the most beautiful piece of machine freedom ever invented.

    10 years ago at 8:48 pm
    1. Tailhook

      I hate to break it to you but Congress is attempting to save it as bipartisan action. It’s USAF generals who don’t like it (and never have) that are the ones attempting to put her down. Congress consistently votes to prevent USAF from doing so but the Air Force really is trying.

      Example, tickle your freedom bones by watching the YouTube video “hawg”. USAF higher attempted to prevent it’s spread because it puts the jet in too good of a light.

      10 years ago at 10:04 pm
    2. TooBusyYachting

      Don’t get too excited with your JFO-ness. You don’t get to call in CAS and have them drop bombs or do gun runs, that’s the JTACs job. You just get to tell the JTAC where the shitheads are.

      10 years ago at 7:10 am