Yes the us air force wanted a plane that could fight masses of soviet armored vehicles in the fulda gap. It had to take off from dirty or improvised airfields and had to mount a new 30mm gun. It also had to be able to fly low to avoid sams and armored well enough to resist ground fire. The plane was fully designed and actually flying before the gun was even ready for testing so early a-10s had a 20mm gun.
During ROTC (Texas A&M) - we had to choose our ride (area of concentration / discipline) - everyone wanted the F16 (am that old) - I wanted close ground support - low & slow - so, I opted for the A10. The AF vets teaching aerial tactics - described it as a flying tank - able to withstand incredible damage & still bring its driver home.
@@carsoncasmirri3874 and we still use that beast today. Amazing piece ot technology honestly, though I'm sure bigger and better aircraft are coming down the pipes.
@@RocotacoPerposterown now it’s more kill the enemy before your seen hence the F-22, F-35, and the B-21 though I’m interested in what the Sr-72 will be like.
Not only the Iraqis called the A10 that name. The countries of the Warsaw pact called it the same because the soviets saw an orthodox cross when they looked at the plane from a certain angle
They should have shown him that video of the one in the Gulf war that looked like swiss cheese, one engine down, and still flew home. That would have blown his mind.
@@IcyTorment actually there another story about Captain Kim Campbell who flew her A-10 back to base after losing all hydraulic functions from enemy fire over Baghdad and was literally manually flying it, like she lost power steering in her car essentially. She’s one of the few pilots to ever safely land an A-10 in manual mode
If both hydrolic systems are damaged, the pilot can "revert to manual control". The aircraft has an old fashioned cable control system if everything else fails.. It's too good to retire.
Yeah both the us and the enemy are shitting their pants because of us pilots can't shoot for shit. Once in ww2 US airforce actually attacked their own boys killing 400 american men in a single attack. After the soldiers were put in a mass grave near the position Airforce came back with a vengeance and bombed the same spot again.
Haneul and Kangyoo are exactly what I thought, and hoped, I'd find when I watched this. You two are _Legendary_ people, who sacrificed it ALL in a blind leap of faith. Anyone reading this, who do you know that could decide to put their fates into the hands of not just an enemy, but a fictional enemy you're taught to loathe since Day 1? All the more impressive that these two have found each other, and can collaborate on educating the world, (openly!) about their experiences north and south of the DMZ. Best of luck in the future guys, Dimple, and all of you reading.
Fun fact: A truck with an A-10 (somehow) attached to the back would break the american interstate speed limit in 3 seconds from a standing start. You could probably make a halfway decent jetpack with it if it was smaller.
@@aslightidiot heh, funny considering the fact that the A-10's engines are literally underpowered due to the sheer weight of the aircraft combined with the payload it carries.
Years ago ;I stumbled on an estate/yard sale. I grabbed all the books i could. In one of them was a scarf full of (tiny) A-10's . It had the date of that guys's last flight on it as well as his name. It's in my safe until I find a case {that's nice enough!} for it.
@@schrodingersgat4344 I would see if he is still alive. If not then see if he had any Living siblings or relatives who were close to him and give them those. It’s only right that they get returned to their proper owner.
I mean, it'll be real good for our boys, but it is really sad how little these poor bastards know. They still think the Army wears OD green fatigues, for God's sake.
@Wayne Haile Even without the US, South Korea has come such a long way in terms of their military might that they can easily defeat NK if they want to. That is if China is out of the picture.
@@mintyfresh4855 That’s something people tend to forget. This isn’t the 1950’s where South Korea was the inferior Korea in terms of Military Power, SK not only closed the gap a long time ago, but it exceeded it by every conceivable metric. They would slaughter their Northern Counterparts.
The story I've heard multiple times from different military vets is that they made the Vulcan Canon first, and then a general said we need to build a plane around this Canon. And that's how the A-10 Warthog was born. I think I might have even heard that in a documentary at some point so its very possible that that's true. The sound that thing makes when it's firing is chilling 😱
@Roger That ...Asking the hard questions now! For me, Apache - less overt kill power, but better linger time and a more manageable consideration for the kind of stuff we used to do. Compound clearance needs a bit more... finesse... than an A-10 brings to the party. A-10 has its place (big clearance ops in the Dasht spring to mind), but us Brits didn't always get them, whereas we always had Apache 🤷🏻♂️.
@Roger That I never saw napalm used - not really the done thing in a counter-insurgency 🤣! Probably the coolest thing I ever saw was an AC-130 lighting off in the middle of the night. I was miles away but I could see the flashes from the Bofors, and the little red pencil lines of the GAUs going.
They literally took the damn cannon and designed an aircraft around it... They the cannon, cover it with something, add some wings... ohh yeah, don't forget the engines.. ohh and throw in a place for the pilot to sit... yep i think we got it boys! To be honest, it would be a complete laughing stock if it wasn't so god dang good at what it does
I wonder if he'd be surprised the diameter of a single barrel on that Gattling gun is bigger than that of some of the AA cannons they used in North Korea? Perhaps also an example of an inert shell next to a Coke bottle?
Yes, well. Stealth technology was dangerous to the Soviet Union. It's much less relevant in a completely asymmetric conflict, wherein the US Navy can get air superiority pretty much just by showing up.
Years ago, I was crossing a high bridge over a river when an A-10 from a regional Air National Guard Base (Last Line of Deployment) came and turned around above the bridge and then went and flew under the bridge.
It may be an aircraft so ugly only a pilot could love it, but on a battlefield the A-10 is the most beautiful thing ever to a soldier. The AC-130 isn't to far behind.
And if you had ever looked up and thanked God they were dumping that on the people in front of you, you would understand that love. Too long ago for my my service, but there are a pair of F-4 pilots I would kiss if I ever saw them. They gave me my own air show while I lay in the grass waiting for a Huey to give me a lift home.
Fun fact. The iconic sound of a diving stuka was achieved by mounting a wind-driven siren to the plane (often with a brake so the pilot didn't have to listen to the thing howl the whole flight), so if you really wanted you could mount a similar siren on an A10 and get both.
He's realizing that a plain from the 1970s is far superior to anything he's ever seen. Also he's having the realization that that was 50 years ago and imagining what we got now.
These days you don't see or hear anything. You just blow up without warning. Killed by an expendable unmanned drone flying higher than any non-modern AA weapons can target, that saw and locked onto you from tens of miles away.
yep a plane designed for 1 thing.. putting holes in the strongest armor on the field.. tanks. And you need a big gun for that. Warthog isn't fast, it isn't going to survive in any air to air combat, but it does it's 1 job very well.... shoot tanks.
@@eolsunder It doesn't need to worry about air to air combat, that's what you have fighter jets for, to keep the enemies air force away from the A10 so it can focus on what it does best
Don't forget the titanium bathtub, triple redundant flight controls........ Thing has taken SAM hits where the pilot could see right though a wing and look at the landing struts and still make it home!
people keep talking about the gun but they forget the thing carriers 10 (sometimes less) anti tank missiles with each one being capable of destroying a tank
@@TheClime I think that someone should send them a sample package of coffee and videos from Black Rifle Coffee Company with "If Veterans were in Horror Movies 3" in the mix.
@@CaptainFrost32 What's the point? The entire context of the video would be lost since they don't speak English. And military culture in their eyes is completely different from America's.
@@TheClime Because it shows a TACP calling in a Warthog strafe on Michael Meyers, for one thing. And they wanted snacks. There are videos where the company visits units in the field and brings care packages.
The joke is the A-10 is a gun with wings or a gun with a plane attached. "See that plane? Give it weapon" but with the A-10 it is "see that gun? Give it wings". Also the Pilots of the A-10 are often called "stick operators" and not Pilot 😂
Truth, Nothing beats seeing our Air Force showing off it's best toys, Love watching the F-16s, F-18s, A-10s, B-2s and whatever else they can drum up come out and fly around! Wings over Whiteman is by far my favorite as the B-2 always comes out.
I think that when it comes down to it its not the military videos that impress them, its more the fact that they are probably pissed that they've been lied to their whole lives to the point that they are starving and the moment they get out of the country they find people are able to eat meat that they would get executed eating in any other part of their home country. All of them leave because they don't feel like they can survive, not for any other reason most of the time. This stuff wouldn't be the impactful stuff, its the food like they've shown numerous times. I got to say It must piss them off so much. I feel so bad for them.
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 Your information is way off. The A-10 is already stationed in S Korea and has been for years. They have been carrying JDAMs for many years now after the last armament upgrades. They are not going in alone, not dogfighting, that is what the support squadrons of fighters is for.
@@Shane_Reynolds85 A-10's are in South Korea, on the island of Okinawa. The rest of the information I got from a military watch channel so, oh well. So yeah, my information was way off
The AQ fighters and other assorted muj groups in Afghanistan and Iraq called it Shaitan's (The Great Satan, America) Cross or The Devil's Cross, as well..
They've tried and failed to replace it, several times, the last contender was the F35-B; last time it came up the US Army was all about grabbing them from the Airforce, those boys love the warthog.
@Roger That As exactly as they should do. Just upgrade the machine of perfect ground attacks to modernize it with modern targeting technologies....maybe we should put a bigger gun on it lmao
@Roger That our government doesn't really have the if it's not broken don't fix it attitude a lot of times they are replaced something with something that's worse they replace the m203 (the under slung grenade launcher for the m4) with a new grenade launcher that is bulkier and less effective and is less liked by the troops
There's video somewhere here on TH-cam of congressional hearings about replacing the A10. A few congressmen, like John McCain, pretty much respond with, 'Are you people stupid?!? The only people who seriously don't like it are the ones who've had to deal with it as an adversary.
I love the Warthog! It's my favorite. I've seen it up close at air shows. The videos don't do it justice. It's an absolute BEAST! My kids love the air shows. They get to see the planes, jets, and artillery up close and have even been allowed to hold some of the equipment.
When the air force said they are retiring it the Army jumped up and literally said “we’ll take all of them!”.....Everytime the Army tried to get fixed wing aircraft the air force has a little tantrum...I think the air force should just be re absorbed into the Army again and re new the Army Air Corp.
@NA NA If your family ever wants to learn more or part with it, then I would recommend sharing the story with Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Pittsburgh. They have exhibits and collections for all American military branches going back to the Civil War. They might be able to research the flier's history.
If he can come to the states He can see one at an airshow I live in battle Creek we had an airshow the f22 has a dog fight with the hairier You can really see the difference it was like a f15 eagle vs A p51mustang
@@jaysonhahn5881 That's odd, I stood under the wing of one chatting with the pilot at an air show a few years ago. The top secret stuff is the chemistry of the coatings, and the electronics inside it. Nothing top secret that you can see from a few feet away or in the cockpit at a glance. You can literally Google image search photos of the F-22 cockpit.
@@SAVikingSA Ah. We're talking about two different things. I was talking about active fighters, not air shows. Not saying the air show fighter isn't active, just doesn't have any of its armaments.
When they designed this thing, Hans Ulric Rudel's biography was required reading by its designers. By the time he was finished on the East Front he had " 519 tank kills, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements. He claimed 11 aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front , usually flying the Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber. Towards the end he was flying with half of one leg blown off and a stress fracture in the other. Like Otto Skorzeny he died an unrepentant National Socialist. If any one knew what CAs was all about it was this guy. When we get around to replacing this thing we should keep his suggestions and experiences in mind and not what will make the arms industry the most money.
Thank you for the video! It's a humbling experience to see someone who has experienced true oppression most of their life, reacting to common, everyday things that many people, myself included, take for granted. I sincerely hope that someday soon the people of North Korea are freed from the yoke of tyranny they currently live under.
Tests showed static M-47 got poorly damaged. No chance to kill reliably more modern tanks with the gun. If you shot missiles there are better platforms with incredibly superior sensors, which after they launch their payload can loiter helping ground troops with very accurate info.
How did they get an interview with a North Korean soldier erm is he a defector? Cuz pretty sure he'd not be let out of the country let alone an interview?
He gets the spirit of our troops. The A-10 was a huge moral boost for troops on the ground. When you hear the engines above you, the gun firing, see the silhouette of the plane, and you know it is your close air support, then you can't help but feel empowered. 30 mm flying American freedom. What's also worth noting, the gun was developed and manufactured by General Electric, the same company that builds washing machines. One spins to make dirt disappear and the other spins to make everything disappear.
You just can't kill the 52 lol The most versatile bomber ever built with such massive payload diversity ensure that as long as you upgrade the engines it can do its job of dropping ungodly payloads on targets.
They are working on a new engine up grade for the BUFF....Getting rid of the fuel hungry 8 engines and replacing them with 4 new turbofans....They project it will be flying until 2050....That’s insane, an airframe that’s been used for 100 years.
@@ryanhampson673 I remember hearing them but never saw them when I was in Vietnam but when they dropped their payload the ground shook for miles n miles n was sure glad I was not in close proximity to the targets
@@northdakota6762 and still allowed to wear and have his uniform? If he was a defected, he looks incredibly young so it must be recent, but there’s been nothing on defected North Korean soldiers yet
@@hornet370 Its not his actual uniform from N.Korea lool, he is wearing it for the sake of the video. He defected a few years ago, so he isn't a North Korean soldier anymore.
And he didn't even saw the real size of the machine gun or the A-10 in full beast mode with every rack pack'd & loaded. I'd have liked to see his reaction to that too.
If you have ever needed CAS(close air support) and you know an A10 is about to put the hurt on the enemy you have been engaged with the PUCKER FACTOR drops drastically..These guys have saved many lives...
Y’all should book them a trip to the U.S so they can see those planes. They have tons of retired military planes at the National Museum of United States Air Force. They would have a field day.
Show them the SR-71 that was taking pretty pictures of NK, that should get an interesting reaction from them. Also one of the sexiest aircraft ever imo.
@@sparkplug1018 They have an SR71 at Warner Robbins AFB museum. You really have to see one in person. I love going there. My inner kid screams for joy while Im jealous of the pilots who got to fly them
@@kennethmiller2333 Every aircraft has its specialty, even the F-35 people who think its a waste of money clearly have not been around aerospace engineers.
Its an aircraft so ugly only a pilot could love it, thats why the brass doesn't like it. They like sleek and sexy looking things, with lots of bells and whistles attached.
@CalamityEnsues Yes, but the US military mainly buys weapons that use NATO standard ammunition (with a very small number of exceptions for Special Forces, and the like). .45 ACP is not a common NATO round, 9mm Parabellum is, and the US moved on from the .45 M1911s over 30 years ago
The A-10 is a soldiers Angel. We have a squadron of warthogs in our state. Had to fight to keep them, when they were talking about retiring this old bird.
@@kristijanmedved6066 too bad the Serbs didn't shoot down a B-2. That was an F-117 And the Serbs STILL got their asses whooped. How can you be proud of being Serb when you guys were defeated? It's a fact you guys have a second rate military. Nobody fears. Nobody fears Serbia. 1999 was a peace keeping operation. If NATO was there to fully invade for a full war. Yall would've lasted 5 days LMAO.
According to the engineers, they said they literally built the plane around the gun
Couldnt be more American
This is why it's said the plane is an accessory to the gun, not the way around.
Yes the us air force wanted a plane that could fight masses of soviet armored vehicles in the fulda gap. It had to take off from dirty or improvised airfields and had to mount a new 30mm gun. It also had to be able to fly low to avoid sams and armored well enough to resist ground fire. The plane was fully designed and actually flying before the gun was even ready for testing so early a-10s had a 20mm gun.
During ROTC (Texas A&M) - we had to choose our ride (area of concentration / discipline) - everyone wanted the F16 (am that old) - I wanted close ground support - low & slow - so, I opted for the A10.
The AF vets teaching aerial tactics - described it as a flying tank - able to withstand incredible damage & still bring its driver home.
Story has it that a guy in Blue (Air Force) walks into Fairchild and says "Here's a cannon, make it fly".
as a general education, i would suggest taking these brave defectors to tour museum ships or to an air show like in oshkosh wisconsin.
underrated comment right here ^^^
Or Boeing here in Seattle.
Really would like to see this.
Oshkosh for sure. Not only see, but touch, and some will allow you enter, sit in, and answer any question you may have.
I was thinking they should come to the Dayton Airforce Museum.
The moment a N Korean soldier realized he was lied to about what kind of enemy they were up against. No chance.
They probably found that out months ago
@@catsndogs98 probably, but going through each vehicle, weapon, and piece of equipment one at a time and looking at them thoroughly is still shocking
This is an aircraft designed at the height of the Cold War solely for fucking up entire columns of Russian tanks
@@carsoncasmirri3874 and we still use that beast today. Amazing piece ot technology honestly, though I'm sure bigger and better aircraft are coming down the pipes.
@@RocotacoPerposterown now it’s more kill the enemy before your seen hence the F-22, F-35, and the B-21 though I’m interested in what the Sr-72 will be like.
The Iraq Army called them, "Satan's Crosses". I laughed when i first heard that. Their armor didnt stand a chance
in 91.
Not only the Iraqis called the A10 that name. The countries of the Warsaw pact called it the same because the soviets saw an orthodox cross when they looked at the plane from a certain angle
Brrrrrrt
The Afghan soldiers we fought alongside called the gau-8 "Allah's Breath" the guys we fought against called it nothing, they just ran, hid, or died
@@shaunoleary9774 it really is a truly extraordinary machine. I can see why they would call it that.
"Ed, it's me! What are you doing? Your father helped me build this store! Don't you remember your old uncle?"
"What's it like shooting the gun on an A-10 in flight?"
The pilot: *VIOLENT SHAKING*
The A-10 is not an Airplane with a Machine gun, it's a Machine gun with an Airplane.
True fact right there. LOL
Look at this magnificent gun! What do you want to do with it? Build a plane around it. Perfect!
Yah that shoots depleted uranium 30 mm rounds
General Electric designed the GAU 8.
Their slogan is : "We bring ,good, things to life."
@@shadowfax743 depleted 30mm rounds for antitank, in the wars against terrorism they were using 30mm high explosive/incendiary ammo.
The design process for it went essentially like this:
"Jim, see that GAU 8 right there?"
"yeah"
"make it fly"
"Make it- wh-"
"I said make it fly"
Underrated comment
50 years later: "They wanna retire the A-10? Are you insane?!!" *They modernize and rebuild the bastard from the ground up.*
"Doesn't have to fly a WHOLE bunch or nuthin, just make Charlie think God's takin sides today."
The A-10 was already flying before the GAU 8 was ready for testing. The testbed A-10s had the 20mm instead.
@@williamhall6651 LMFAOOOO
US Air Force: "We need modern Aircraft."
Warthog: "Noobs."
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@@Kelgo102 its making fun of the fact that the a10 is very old. And is still one of the best CAS platforms out there
@@stephenmitchell7915 Definitely uses depleted uranium ammo. It has been mentioned in many videos.
@@happydogmachine
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🤣😂🤣Yow O WL....
The scariest part is how survivable that plane is, it could be one engine down with half a wing shot off and it'll still fly.
They should have shown him that video of the one in the Gulf war that looked like swiss cheese, one engine down, and still flew home. That would have blown his mind.
True!
yeah it can survive with no wings, no engines, tail being cut off with the elevators, half of the cockpit and it still would be combat capable
@@IcyTorment actually there another story about Captain Kim Campbell who flew her A-10 back to base after losing all hydraulic functions from enemy fire over Baghdad and was literally manually flying it, like she lost power steering in her car essentially. She’s one of the few pilots to ever safely land an A-10 in manual mode
If both hydrolic systems are damaged, the pilot can "revert to manual control".
The aircraft has an old fashioned cable control system if everything else fails..
It's too good to retire.
Russians when the snow starts speaking Finnish, •_• The whole world when they hear brrrrrrrrrt, It was an honor serving with you guys
When u die from a a10, u never hear the brrrrrrrrrrrrt.
@@debbigillman3923 If you hear it, it's not shooting at you.
"Hey boss, we got this big Gatling gun. what should we do with it?" Boss: "make it fly."
I still think they should put 2 on an Abrams chassis
@@DaddyLongLegs44 haha that would be amazing
@@DaddyLongLegs44 Next up: plane with autoloading 120mm
Dakka dakka dakka!
Sounds about right, Sully462
BRRRRRT isn't the sound of the gun, it's the sound of everyone and everything downrange simultaneously sh*tting themselves in terror.
If you can hear the BRRRRRRRRRRT, you weren't the target
@@imago150 would you just stop evryone from around the world knows that saying
@@justusxp9216 BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT
Yeah both the us and the enemy are shitting their pants because of us pilots can't shoot for shit. Once in ww2 US airforce actually attacked their own boys killing 400 american men in a single attack. After the soldiers were put in a mass grave near the position Airforce came back with a vengeance and bombed the same spot again.
@@Jebu911 Careful, your ignorance is showing.
There are 2 kinds of people in the world:
"Is it possible to fly that high?"
"Is it possible to fly that low?"
Your forgetting one more I need to get lower
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_G4M#/media/File:Mitsubishi_G4M1_bombers_attack_the_invasion_force_between_Guadalcanal_and_Tulagi_on_8_August_1942_(80-G-17066).jpg
Ekranoplan: Get on my level.
@@MrDgwphotos How about those F-111s doing an attack on Nigeria back in the 80s or 90s?
Is it possible to fly that dark?
Is it possible to fly that invisible?
Haneul and Kangyoo are exactly what I thought, and hoped, I'd find when I watched this. You two are _Legendary_ people, who sacrificed it ALL in a blind leap of faith.
Anyone reading this, who do you know that could decide to put their fates into the hands of not just an enemy, but a fictional enemy you're taught to loathe since Day 1? All the more impressive that these two have found each other, and can collaborate on educating the world, (openly!) about their experiences north and south of the DMZ. Best of luck in the future guys, Dimple, and all of you reading.
"Can a plane fly that low!?"
Bro, you can fly a plane all the way into the ground.
Yes but only once. You don't need a parachute to sky dive either unless you want to do it again!
yes and itll fucking crash a second later
@@tymon102e6 no it'll land a second later
And how low have you flown a plane, Josh?
If you heard BRRRRRRT, than you were not a target
Facts
fax
@Al D Exactly
For the time being
Or you were Danger Close to the target...
I see a thumbnail with A-10, I go BRRRRRT and click the picture.
Same!
Me too!
Ltmj
IKR
Everybody: We need jets that are manuverable with missiles and speed.
Americans: Flying Gatling gun goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I mean the US has plenty of those too lol
Fun fact: A truck with an A-10 (somehow) attached to the back would break the american interstate speed limit in 3 seconds from a standing start. You could probably make a halfway decent jetpack with it if it was smaller.
@@aslightidiot heh, funny considering the fact that the A-10's engines are literally underpowered due to the sheer weight of the aircraft combined with the payload it carries.
@@aslightidiot rofl that's some funny stuff
My son was one of the youngest crew chiefs for the A-10 when he was stationed in Arizona.
Military: We need to decommission these planes
Government: Haha, plane go BRRRRRRRT
My husband is a retired A-10 pilot! This is so cool!
Years ago ;I stumbled on an estate/yard sale.
I grabbed all the books i could. In one of them was a scarf full of (tiny) A-10's .
It had the date of that guys's last flight on it as well as his name.
It's in my safe until I find a case {that's nice enough!} for it.
Depending when he retired, he probably flew CAS for us.. Tell him thank you from a guy who's tush was saved by a 'Hog driver.
The local ANG base here has A 10s. They fly over the house once in a while and they look totally impressive!!!!
I know a lot of men that would love to be with your manz
@@schrodingersgat4344 I would see if he is still alive. If not then see if he had any Living siblings or relatives who were close to him and give them those. It’s only right that they get returned to their proper owner.
Supreme Leader: We have stealth aircraft, that is why you don't see it flying... >.>
A-10 version of stealth : "It's "stealth" if there's no-one left alive who saw you , right?"
Not a lot actually makes me laugh out loud but that got me rollin. Thank u sir!
Actually the a 10 isn’t stealth
@Rhys Goodman I sort of agree with him.
The A-10 is quite noisy.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrt !
@@-wheelsupnc7722 As subtle as a hand grenade in a barrel of oatmeal.
I find it heartbreaking that the NK military has to be kept in the dark about what they'd be up against.
That's the whole point so they can control every aspect of their people
@@spazmonkey2131 Yup.
I mean, it'll be real good for our boys, but it is really sad how little these poor bastards know. They still think the Army wears OD green fatigues, for God's sake.
@Wayne Haile Even without the US, South Korea has come such a long way in terms of their military might that they can easily defeat NK if they want to. That is if China is out of the picture.
@@mintyfresh4855 That’s something people tend to forget. This isn’t the 1950’s where South Korea was the inferior Korea in terms of Military Power, SK not only closed the gap a long time ago, but it exceeded it by every conceivable metric. They would slaughter their Northern Counterparts.
The story I've heard multiple times from different military vets is that they made the Vulcan Canon first, and then a general said we need to build a plane around this Canon. And that's how the A-10 Warthog was born. I think I might have even heard that in a documentary at some point so its very possible that that's true. The sound that thing makes when it's firing is chilling 😱
I’m not from North Korea and I still get excited when I see this beautiful flying tank!
There's nothing more comforting than having Warthogs in a CAS stack. Hearing that BRRRRRRRT in anger will stay with me forever!
BRRRRRRT
Pilot: "got 'em. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot were they thinking?"
@@tander101 😂. We had Texas ANG flying those things when I was in Helmand - C/S "DUDE". Frickin' legends.
@Roger That ...Asking the hard questions now! For me, Apache - less overt kill power, but better linger time and a more manageable consideration for the kind of stuff we used to do. Compound clearance needs a bit more... finesse... than an A-10 brings to the party. A-10 has its place (big clearance ops in the Dasht spring to mind), but us Brits didn't always get them, whereas we always had Apache 🤷🏻♂️.
@Roger That I never saw napalm used - not really the done thing in a counter-insurgency 🤣! Probably the coolest thing I ever saw was an AC-130 lighting off in the middle of the night. I was miles away but I could see the flashes from the Bofors, and the little red pencil lines of the GAUs going.
@Roger That No sir I did not! And I'm thankful for it too!
Love the song!
They need to show him what the gun looks like outside the aircraft. Preferably in comparison to normal aircraft canons.
Forget that, show him that canon sitting next to an average compact car. Give them a real sense of scale.
@@stephenmitchell7915 So classic military doing their usually thing.
Also like to see his reaction to the amount of damage those planes can sustain and still function
They literally took the damn cannon and designed an aircraft around it...
They the cannon, cover it with something, add some wings... ohh yeah, don't forget the engines.. ohh and throw in a place for the pilot to sit... yep i think we got it boys!
To be honest, it would be a complete laughing stock if it wasn't so god dang good at what it does
I wonder if he'd be surprised the diameter of a single barrel on that Gattling gun is bigger than that of some of the AA cannons they used in North Korea? Perhaps also an example of an inert shell next to a Coke bottle?
North Korean Defector: "They were saying we have to get ready for stealth"
A 10: **BRRRRRRRRRRT**
North Korean Defector: "wow! It's threatening"
Yes, well. Stealth technology was dangerous to the Soviet Union. It's much less relevant in a completely asymmetric conflict, wherein the US Navy can get air superiority pretty much just by showing up.
That look at 2:15 when they’re describing the 30mm is a mixture of awe in the aircraft and relief that he defected.
Years ago, I was crossing a high bridge over a river when an A-10 from a regional Air National Guard Base (Last Line of Deployment) came and turned around above the bridge and then went and flew under the bridge.
I love that every time there is talk about retiring the A10, the army says 'hell no' ;)
@J Mireles to paraphrase a tv advert, it's the Ronseal of planes, it "does exactly what it says on the tin"! ;)
It may be an aircraft so ugly only a pilot could love it, but on a battlefield the A-10 is the most beautiful thing ever to a soldier. The AC-130 isn't to far behind.
And if you had ever looked up and thanked God they were dumping that on the people in front of you, you would understand that love. Too long ago for my my service, but there are a pair of F-4 pilots I would kiss if I ever saw them. They gave me my own air show while I lay in the grass waiting for a Huey to give me a lift home.
"Hey, Kang, that was almost 50 years ago. You should see our new stuff!"
Kang faints.
If you hear the BRRRRRRRRT, they weren't shooting at you.
If you hear the BRRRRRRRRRT, then quite possibly that is an echoe in your ever lasting after life...... true story bro
Or you were Danger Close to the target...
Cope harder. A-10 did more friendly fire damage than actual kills LOL.
@@RTSG_Prism YOU'RE FAKE NEWS
@@floydhill9265 A-10 coomerinos when they see A-10 friendly fire and shot-down casualties:
STOP THE COUNT!!!!!!!!!!
If he is scared of the power of the A-10, imagine listening to the sound of the German Stukas of World War II, they both give me chills!
Fun fact. The iconic sound of a diving stuka was achieved by mounting a wind-driven siren to the plane (often with a brake so the pilot didn't have to listen to the thing howl the whole flight), so if you really wanted you could mount a similar siren on an A10 and get both.
@@reaganharder1480 if an A-10 could do that, everyone downrange of that beast would shit themselves the second it dove and started shooting
He's realizing that a plain from the 1970s is far superior to anything he's ever seen.
Also he's having the realization that that was 50 years ago and imagining what we got now.
These days you don't see or hear anything. You just blow up without warning. Killed by an expendable unmanned drone flying higher than any non-modern AA weapons can target, that saw and locked onto you from tens of miles away.
The most American plane in our arsenal. They basically just put wings on a giant cannon.
If Texas was a plane.
yep a plane designed for 1 thing.. putting holes in the strongest armor on the field.. tanks. And you need a big gun for that. Warthog isn't fast, it isn't going to survive in any air to air combat, but it does it's 1 job very well.... shoot tanks.
@@eolsunder It doesn't need to worry about air to air combat, that's what you have fighter jets for, to keep the enemies air force away from the A10 so it can focus on what it does best
@@andrewthompson5728 they really should make it their state bird and just leave it at that.
@@eolsunder And those on the ground love it for that.
The wonderful thing about the A-10 is that it was literally engineered to fly with only 1 wing and 1 engine
Don't forget the titanium bathtub, triple redundant flight controls........ Thing has taken SAM hits where the pilot could see right though a wing and look at the landing struts and still make it home!
And it's still cheaper to maintain than all other pointy jets.
It's basically a flying gun. That's all
And land with no canopy or landing gear lol
They don't make em like they used to.
Crash Overide to be fair when your design specs are “out piss god and all his angels” it’s kinda hard for others to even match up
Came for the A-10. Stayed for the BRRRRRRRT, BBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!
And happy BBBBRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTT to you, sir:)
@@dougyates7218 BBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTT! at you too brother
CWIS BRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT !
people keep talking about the gun but they forget the thing carriers 10 (sometimes less) anti tank missiles with each one being capable of destroying a tank
I love the videos with the soldiers on the ground just cheering when the A10 shows up and opens a can of whoop ass!!!
The A-10 is one sweet bird.
I thought it was a gun with wings.
BRRRRRIP!
@@cdpgeorge actually it was a Gun that learned to fly haha.
It's a tank that got lost and enlisted in the Air Force.
@@lairdcummings9092 its what happens when the marine corps, army and airforce do a collab
He's watching that A-10 like wow I been lied to my whole life..
DIMPLE chooses literally the worst military videos in their respective categories when reacting. It's honestly quite impressive at this point lol.
They seem to pick the worst videos and then edit them in the worst way possible. Every other aspect of the channel is fantastic except that.
@RuA Honey Badger Right? So much beautiful footage with the A-10s throughout youtube, and all they show are different angles of target practice.
@@TheClime I think that someone should send them a sample package of coffee and videos from Black Rifle Coffee Company with "If Veterans were in Horror Movies 3" in the mix.
@@CaptainFrost32 What's the point? The entire context of the video would be lost since they don't speak English. And military culture in their eyes is completely different from America's.
@@TheClime Because it shows a TACP calling in a Warthog strafe on Michael Meyers, for one thing. And they wanted snacks. There are videos where the company visits units in the field and brings care packages.
The joke is the A-10 is a gun with wings or a gun with a plane attached. "See that plane? Give it weapon" but with the A-10 it is "see that gun? Give it wings". Also the Pilots of the A-10 are often called "stick operators" and not Pilot 😂
What makes me feel bad is when this A10 goes brrrrr, every North Korean be like "woah that's so co-"
It would be really cool to see this dude go to an Airshow and see those beautiful planes in the air.
Truth, Nothing beats seeing our Air Force showing off it's best toys, Love watching the F-16s, F-18s, A-10s, B-2s and whatever else they can drum up come out and fly around! Wings over Whiteman is by far my favorite as the B-2 always comes out.
Even better, get him I side and let him see it from the pilots perspective
So glad you guys defected and will never have to be on the business end of an A-10.
So are they.
He seems like a nice guy!
Looks like a nice guy, no need to worry we can be friends put the past behind
as a cav scout in the army im not sure how many times this bird saved my life..love them
It's awesome to see his reaction, he can be proud he's now one of the good guys.
This dude has got to be glad he defected after seeing this. And that's just a small example of our CAS capability
Hell yeah!
I think that when it comes down to it its not the military videos that impress them, its more the fact that they are probably pissed that they've been lied to their whole lives to the point that they are starving and the moment they get out of the country they find people are able to eat meat that they would get executed eating in any other part of their home country.
All of them leave because they don't feel like they can survive, not for any other reason most of the time. This stuff wouldn't be the impactful stuff, its the food like they've shown numerous times. I got to say It must piss them off so much. I feel so bad for them.
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 Your information is way off.
The A-10 is already stationed in S Korea and has been for years. They have been carrying JDAMs for many years now after the last armament upgrades. They are not going in alone, not dogfighting, that is what the support squadrons of fighters is for.
@@Shane_Reynolds85 A-10's are in South Korea, on the island of Okinawa.
The rest of the information I got from a military watch channel so, oh well.
So yeah, my information was way off
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 Okinawa is in Japan. There are no A-10 on Okinawa. The A-10s are in S Korea at Osan AB.
The Hog is a gods damned sexy Valkyrie. Us ground pounders love her and respect her pilots.
So much so that when the Airforce floated the idea of retiring the A-10 the Army shamed them into keeping it by saying they would fly them.
@@kvoltti or when Senator John McCain said "Nope"
Russians call it Satan's cross. See that boy the fight's over.
The AQ fighters and other assorted muj groups in Afghanistan and Iraq called it Shaitan's (The Great Satan, America) Cross or The Devil's Cross, as well..
The best names are always given by adversaries.
Isn't that from a tom Clancy novel? Red storm rising i believe?
The Russians forgot that they have the Su-25?
@J Mireles What makes the Frogfoot impressive?
I love this guy's fascination when he sees the A10
If we ever really got serious, NK would fold like a wet paper sack.
The real problem with the A10 is that they are trying to retire it and replace it with something more expensive and less effective.
Congress is, but the Air Force just keeps telling them to fuck off. lol
They've tried and failed to replace it, several times, the last contender was the F35-B; last time it came up the US Army was all about grabbing them from the Airforce, those boys love the warthog.
@Roger That As exactly as they should do. Just upgrade the machine of perfect ground attacks to modernize it with modern targeting technologies....maybe we should put a bigger gun on it lmao
@Roger That our government doesn't really have the if it's not broken don't fix it attitude a lot of times they are replaced something with something that's worse they replace the m203 (the under slung grenade launcher for the m4) with a new grenade launcher that is bulkier and less effective and is less liked by the troops
There's video somewhere here on TH-cam of congressional hearings about replacing the A10. A few congressmen, like John McCain, pretty much respond with, 'Are you people stupid?!? The only people who seriously don't like it are the ones who've had to deal with it as an adversary.
Get this guy on a Ride along, hell even if it's just a trainer plane.
IKR
Can you imagine him on a ride along with the Blue Angels? I'd pay money to watch that video.
@@LostInSpice facts!
Actually there are no two seaters...
@@soongone99 no two-seater fighter jets or training Jets?
Should have shown him some videos of them shooting treelines in Afghanistan
Did you not pay attention? Some of the later footage was from Afghanistan (the guys cheering in the foreground).
Or the video of an A 10 destroying a convoy of jeeps in two passes. I would not want to be on the business end of the Gau 8 Avenger.
I love the Warthog! It's my favorite. I've seen it up close at air shows. The videos don't do it justice. It's an absolute BEAST! My kids love the air shows. They get to see the planes, jets, and artillery up close and have even been allowed to hold some of the equipment.
Soldiers can recognize an A-10 inbound and will always have a sigh of relief.
How much power do you need on an airplane?
USAF: YES.
Please, please, give the A-10 fleet to the Army. Air Force Generals only want glamorous Fighter Jets.
When the air force said they are retiring it the Army jumped up and literally said “we’ll take all of them!”.....Everytime the Army tried to get fixed wing aircraft the air force has a little tantrum...I think the air force should just be re absorbed into the Army again and re new the Army Air Corp.
If the air force had had its way we wouldn't even have anti tank helicopters. They have their agenda and CAS isn't on it.
@NA NA If your family ever wants to learn more or part with it, then I would recommend sharing the story with Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Pittsburgh. They have exhibits and collections for all American military branches going back to the Civil War. They might be able to research the flier's history.
I'd be extremely surprised if the USAF would let him see an F22 in person.
If he can come to the states He can see one at an airshow I live in battle Creek we had an airshow the f22 has a dog fight with the hairier You can really see the difference it was like a f15 eagle vs A p51mustang
He can see it in the air, that's about it. They would never let someone outside of the military see it up close and definitely not the inside.
@@jaysonhahn5881 That's odd, I stood under the wing of one chatting with the pilot at an air show a few years ago.
The top secret stuff is the chemistry of the coatings, and the electronics inside it. Nothing top secret that you can see from a few feet away or in the cockpit at a glance. You can literally Google image search photos of the F-22 cockpit.
@@SAVikingSA Ah. We're talking about two different things. I was talking about active fighters, not air shows. Not saying the air show fighter isn't active, just doesn't have any of its armaments.
I have heard that people can become American citizens and join the US military. Maybe he could join the USAF and learn about the F22 directly?
"How scary do you want your plane to be?"
"BRRRRRRRT"
"Say no more..."
After 47 years of service it’s still impressive , and still not outdated! It’s a workhorse.
You hear a BRRRRRRRRRRRT: Panik
It flies over and you aren't injured: Kalm
You heard a shhhhhhhh: PANIK!
Want to hear what freedom sounds like ?
Yes ? No ? Okay.. *BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*
One thing that video didn't show and something I think makes that plane even more threatening is its ability to take severe damage and still fly.
I like how genuinely amazed he is
The old morale booster. I've never seen an a10 real combat strafe video that didn't have the guys on the ground going absolutely nuts
Wait till they sees and hears how old the B52s are.
And yet they still kick tail.......
Our A4’s in Nam flew so low on strafeing runs that we often cleaned bamboo out of the intakes.
When they designed this thing, Hans Ulric Rudel's biography was required reading by its designers. By the time he was finished on the East Front he had
" 519 tank kills, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements. He claimed 11 aerial victories
and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front ,
usually flying the Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber.
Towards the end he was flying with half of one leg blown off and a stress fracture in the other. Like Otto Skorzeny he died an unrepentant National Socialist. If any one knew what CAs was all about it was this guy. When we get around to replacing this thing we should keep his suggestions and experiences in mind and not what will make the arms industry the most money.
And this is what Rudel was flying, the JU87 "Kanonenvogel". Two 37mm cannons under the wings, no siren.
th-cam.com/video/yMHTzzySe84/w-d-xo.html
Hans Rudel was the real thing, a nerves of steel combat pilot. His book is awesome reading. Thank you for mentioning Hans and his combat scores.
I've known about the A-10 since I was five, and I'm still amazed. That thing is INSANE
Thank you for the video!
It's a humbling experience to see someone who has experienced true oppression most of their life, reacting to common, everyday things that many people, myself included, take for granted.
I sincerely hope that someday soon the people of North Korea are freed from the yoke of tyranny they currently live under.
And what's even more sad is that a magnificent Constitutional Republic is fighting to submit itself to a socialist/Marxist tyranny.
The Air Force already had the gun. They wanted a plane designed around it.
I’m still waiting on this man to get his American steak
Soviets: We have 50,000 tanks!
A-10:..NOM NOM NOM!!
LOL
Tests showed static M-47 got poorly damaged. No chance to kill reliably more modern tanks with the gun. If you shot missiles there are better platforms with incredibly superior sensors, which after they launch their payload can loiter helping ground troops with very accurate info.
How did they get an interview with a North Korean soldier erm is he a defector? Cuz pretty sure he'd not be let out of the country let alone an interview?
He gets the spirit of our troops. The A-10 was a huge moral boost for troops on the ground. When you hear the engines above you, the gun firing, see the silhouette of the plane, and you know it is your close air support, then you can't help but feel empowered. 30 mm flying American freedom.
What's also worth noting, the gun was developed and manufactured by General Electric, the same company that builds washing machines. One spins to make dirt disappear and the other spins to make everything disappear.
the plane that makes the enemy soldier ask his buddy "please tell me you farted"
Here a freedom of Brrrttttttttt!!
How about the old Reliable B 52 n some of the choppers like the Cobra n Apache as well as the Phantoms n B 1 stealth etc
Good ol' classic B-52s bombers
Than there's The classic Rock Lobster by the B-52s lol
You just can't kill the 52 lol
The most versatile bomber ever built with such massive payload diversity ensure that as long as you upgrade the engines it can do its job of dropping ungodly payloads on targets.
They are working on a new engine up grade for the BUFF....Getting rid of the fuel hungry 8 engines and replacing them with 4 new turbofans....They project it will be flying until 2050....That’s insane, an airframe that’s been used for 100 years.
@@ryanhampson673 and I think the 4 turbo fans will still generate more thrust then the current 8 as well.
@@ryanhampson673 I remember hearing them but never saw them when I was in Vietnam but when they dropped their payload the ground shook for miles n miles n was sure glad I was not in close proximity to the targets
I feel like this isn’t an actual North Korean soldier,
I seriously doubt that he is a NK soldier too. He certainly has a tremendous amount of freedom and no fear of repercussions for criticizing NK.
@@aefkjj He defected from NK he was a NK soldier he now lives in South Korea.
@@northdakota6762 and still allowed to wear and have his uniform? If he was a defected, he looks incredibly young so it must be recent, but there’s been nothing on defected North Korean soldiers yet
@@hornet370 Its not his actual uniform from N.Korea lool, he is wearing it for the sake of the video. He defected a few years ago, so he isn't a North Korean soldier anymore.
@@aefkjj He defected a few years ago, so he isn't a North Korean soldier anymore.
“It can fly that low?” Made me think of the scene in Dr Strangelove where the general gets riled up about the B-52 flying under radar.
Show him the "sensor fused weapon". Imagine the A10 could carry eight or more of those and take out entire divisions.
And he didn't even saw the real size of the machine gun or the A-10 in full beast mode with every rack pack'd & loaded. I'd have liked to see his reaction to that too.
A VolksWagon Beetle ,with a telephone pole strapped to it.
Seems like a nice enough guy. Show him some "Fans Only" for reaction to that. lol
I really enjoy these videos, they are so respectful and curious, its very endearing and valuable qualities to have in people.
If you have ever needed CAS(close air support) and you know an A10 is about to put the hurt on the enemy you have been engaged with the PUCKER FACTOR drops drastically..These guys have saved many lives...
Y’all should book them a trip to the U.S so they can see those planes. They have tons of retired military planes at the National Museum of United States Air Force. They would have a field day.
Show them the SR-71 that was taking pretty pictures of NK, that should get an interesting reaction from them. Also one of the sexiest aircraft ever imo.
@@sparkplug1018 They have an SR71 at Warner Robbins AFB museum. You really have to see one in person. I love going there. My inner kid screams for joy while Im jealous of the pilots who got to fly them
I can't believe this aircraft was up for the budgetary chopping block on several occasions.
To me, the A-10 is what military aviation is for. The fancy fighters are just to keep your A-10 from being shot down.
@@kennethmiller2333 Every aircraft has its specialty, even the F-35 people who think its a waste of money clearly have not been around aerospace engineers.
Its an aircraft so ugly only a pilot could love it, thats why the brass doesn't like it. They like sleek and sexy looking things, with lots of bells and whistles attached.
@@sparkplug1018 The ones who love it best aren't the pilots; it's the ground troops.
@@bambihall169 People who think it's not clearly have not been around maintenance officers.
They don’t really need this bad boi for NK because even a Glock can penetrate their out dated tank🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Oh nk supposedly has some semi modern tanks but probably just 3 or so
how did they interview a north korean soldier is he like an ex soldier?
@Yvonne Steiner ummmm the Glock is 9mm not .45 ACP, but you are correct that a Pistol bullet will NOT pierce tank armor of any kind.
@@devlintaylor9520 his a defector from NK
@CalamityEnsues Yes, but the US military mainly buys weapons that use NATO standard ammunition (with a very small number of exceptions for Special Forces, and the like). .45 ACP is not a common NATO round, 9mm Parabellum is, and the US moved on from the .45 M1911s over 30 years ago
warthog is being phased out... C130 with 2 min guns and two cannons being phased in.. Imagine if this guys saw what a C130 can do to a Transformer :D
The A-10 is a soldiers Angel. We have a squadron of warthogs in our state. Had to fight to keep them, when they were talking about retiring this old bird.
Just from looking from his reaction if his mind was blown already at A10 he needs to see B2 stealth bomber
You mean stratofortress.... And how many bombs it can carry and drop at once...
Too bad serbs didnt know it was stealth ;)
He needs to see some of the readily Available infra red videos from real AC130 combat strikes.
@@sbritton1313 the B-2 carries more bombs
@@kristijanmedved6066 too bad the Serbs didn't shoot down a B-2. That was an F-117
And the Serbs STILL got their asses whooped. How can you be proud of being Serb when you guys were defeated? It's a fact you guys have a second rate military.
Nobody fears. Nobody fears Serbia.
1999 was a peace keeping operation. If NATO was there to fully invade for a full war. Yall would've lasted 5 days LMAO.
Just remember, everyone; communism is not the answer.
Communism is the question.
The answer is BRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTT!!!
Ok, nazi
@@scarab2622 What the hell are you talking about? Nazis need put 6 feet under too.
@@scarab2622 yea where are you going with that
@@scarab2622 weird. Usually people with anime pfps are the nazis
@@scarab2622 so now hating communism is now gonna make you a nazi
The warthog isnt a plane, its a machinegun with wings
What a great idea! I'm American and I love this channel, such an interesting perspective.
All the noises coming out of his mouth were "waooo... Waaaaaa. WAAAAAOUUu".
Wow. That's a lot of wows.