Four Taliban terrorists on motorcycles versus an A-10’s GAU-8 Gatling cannon in Afghanistan.
The results are in, and Jihadi Biker Gang was no-contest against the sky cannon.
Consider that the A-10’s HEI shells contain about sixty grams of explosive filler
That dot doing wandering around on the screen, that Targeting Pod (TGP,) relative position indicator. The technical name is the Situational Awareness Cue. The behavior of the cue from the second perspective indicates that the firing A-10 approached the targets from the right side, rolled in and fired, then broke sharply left. This should be relatively easy to visualize if you’ve ever seen external footage of A-10 gun passes.
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