October 20Oct 20 Bothe the War Zone and the Mover and Gronky show report an A-10 sporting two drone kills on its nose. The kills were allegedly performed by APKWS II 2.75” (70mm) laser guided rockets. If true this offers a much more cost effective alternative to shooting down drones.
October 20Oct 20 45 minutes ago, HeyEng said: Bothe the War Zone and the Mover and Gronky show report an A-10 sporting two drone kills on its nose. The kills were allegedly performed by APKWS II 2.75” (70mm) laser guided rockets. If true this offers a much more cost effective alternative to shooting down drones. They have been employed on most fighters in the fleet now.
October 21Oct 21 AGR-20 has been one of the best weapons we’ve produced in a long time.It could be an F load better if we’d drop the “smokeless” requirement from the next version and tell the EPA to accept some new cocktails in its production.They’ve got a motor and flight profile modification to the software that nearly doubles the range for the same mass. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
October 21Oct 21 On 10/19/2025 at 7:25 PM, HeyEng said: If true this offers a much more cost effective alternative to shooting down drones. Only drones...? Edited October 21Oct 21 by Boomer6
October 21Oct 21 Author 10 hours ago, Boomer6 said: Only drones...? You are right, I thought these were limited to slow movers like the A-10 and helicopters due to the barn door aerodynamics of the rocket pod but they have been used on F-16 and F/A-18. These would definitely have been a more cost effective answer when we shot down those Chinese Spy balloons over Lake Huron, Alaska, Canada, and North Carolina.
October 21Oct 21 You are right, I thought these were limited to slow movers like the A-10 and helicopters due to the barn door aerodynamics of the rocket pod but they have been used on F-16 and F/A-18. These would definitely have been a more cost effective answer when we shot down those Chinese Spy balloons over Lake Huron, Alaska, Canada, and North Carolina. You probably just solved for X on why we can’t seem to get any further investment into them.For less than the price of a Hellfire I can get 3 of these with a dual mode fire and forget guidance section, but all anybody wants to talk about is how great JAGM will be someday.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
October 21Oct 21 On 10/20/2025 at 5:46 AM, Biff_T said: F/A-10 Remember Gulf War I: - A-10: 2 - F-16: 0
October 24Oct 24 AGR-20s are great, and the Hog can carry a lot of them... but the word on the street is that's not what was used to down the drones.
October 24Oct 24 2 hours ago, Zero said: AGR-20s are great, and the Hog can carry a lot of them... but the word on the street is that's not what was used to down the drones. I hope it used that well endowed gun. Sts.
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