---
title: "Here’s what it looks like on the receiving end of an A-10 Warthog’s scary-as-f*ck gun run"
description: "There are few things more glorious than the furious BRRRT! of the A-10 Warthog's GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm autocannon laying the law on ground-based foes — and now we know exactly why the sound inspires as much fear in America's adversaries as it does joy in its allies"
date: "2019-09-24"
modified: "2019-09-24"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller.md"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/a10-warthog-gun-run-video/"
categories:
  - "Air Force"
  - "Aircraft"
  - "Fighter Aircraft"
  - "Military Branches"
  - "News"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
---

# Here’s what it looks like on the receiving end of an A-10 Warthog’s scary-as-f\*ck gun run

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/21141767-1.jpg>)

There are few things more glorious than the furious BRRRT! of the A-10 Warthog's GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm autocannon laying the law on ground-based foes — and now we know exactly why the sound inspires as much fear in America's adversaries as it does joy in its allies.

The above video, [published](<https://www.facebook.com/137SOW/videos/1720903474611193/>) by the 137th Special Operations Wing back in 2017 and [brought to our attention](<https://twitter.com/ZeroBlog30/status/1176136417128456203>) by our friends at Zero Blog Thirty, shows an A-10 Thunderbolt II assigned to the 175th Wing at Warfield Air National Guard Base, Maryland, unleashing a hail of lead directly onto the camera's position.

The 175th Wing was part of a joint force [deployed](<https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/News/Article/Article/1275905/us-forces-train-with-british-allies-in-estonia/>) to Estonia in August 2017 to train with NATO allies, training that [included](<https://www.facebook.com/137SOW/photos/a.163789086989314/1710386342329573/?type=1&theater>) various combined aerial-ground exercises with the 175th WG A-10s and Estonian joint tactical air controllers from Ämari Air Base.

While airmen love to brag about the A-10's firepower in ridiculously exaggerated terms like "a cannon with wings" or "Chewbacca with chainsaw arms," the 137th SOW video captures the brutal reality of the A-10's close air support capabilities.

But the best part of this video comes *after* the salvo of 30mm shells. The camera flips, dust and smoke rising, and the last thing we see is the A-10 cruising by overhead, a solitary middle finger to what's left of the enemy.

[Of ... thee ... I ... sing ...](<https://youtu.be/BdDdeS997hM?t=59>)

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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