Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kill Count

Kill Count

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Original – A close-up view of the markings painted on the side of a U.S. Air Force 74th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 23rd Tactical Fighter Wing, A-10A Thunderbolt aircraft on display at the 1991 Department of Defense Joint Services Open House at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland (USA). The markings indicate the number of Iraqi trucks, artillery pieces, tanks, armored vehicles and radar sites destroyed by the aircraft during the 1991 Gulf War.

Reason

For most aircraft in service with their parent nation it is customary for the unit to denote the number of kills that the aircraft and pilot have racked up over the course of the plane's career. Here, the nose of an A-10A Thunderbolt II close air support aircraft shows off the stars painted on the aircraft to denote the number of Iraqi trucks, artillery pieces, tanks, armored vehicles and radar sites destroyed by the aircraft during the 1991 Gulf War.

Articles in which this image appears

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II

FP category for this image

War

Creator

Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.) (PD-USGov)

• Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 04:46, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose I don't see any EV. It's not a good depiction of the A-10A Thunderbolt, and there is no mention of "kill counts" in the article, and there is no specific article for it. Interesting pic, but I'm not seeing how it links to the encyclopedia. Mattximus (talk) 23:33, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose-Sorry but no EV here...-The Herald (Benison) • ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 11:27, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose Viewers need to watch keenly to know the subject of this picture. --Rainbow Archer (talk) 12:21, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:32, 30 July 2016 (UTC)