Watch this incredible cockpit clip of an A-10 Thunderbolt II landing on a dry lake bed

A-10 landing

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The following video shows an A-10C Thunderbolt II from the 190th Fighter Squadron at Gowen Field in Idaho taking off from Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base and proceeding to an austere landing site at Delamar Dry Lake near Alamo, Nevada, on January 26.

Pilots from the 190th FS performed landings during both day and night sorties to qualify on the unique ability of the A-10 "Warthog" to use unimproved surface landing strips.

A-10 Thunderbolt pilots in all the US Air Force units perform this kind of training, usually with the support of special tactics squadrons that provide air traffic control at the landing strip; this kind of training is used to validate procedures used when operations occur from within a denied territory, where there is no established landing zone under friendly control.

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