In fact, the A-10 is really the only aircraft the US has ever designed, produced, and operated that was strictly designed for the CAS role. Can anyone think of anything else (excluding rotary wing or gunships like the AC-119 or AC-130)?
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You’re not wrong. But this is where the junction in the road happens. Do we actually need an F-35 type aircraft (strike version of the F-22/whatev)? If the answer is ‘yes’, then you simply cannot afford to start over. If the answer is ‘no’ then you can cancel the program and let much of it’s R&D trickle down in…
Yeah, if people seriously want something to be pissed about, and go after the government over. Forget the F-35. Axing the F-22 was far more heinous. Alot of the problem is that the F-35 was designed, envisioned, and procured in a period where we were still expecting to have over 500 Raptors. They end up actually…
Well that F-35 isn’t exactly designed for CAS. The A-10 is really the only wide-scale production CAS aircraft used by the US military. Prior to that, I’d say the A-1 Skyraider. It’s not a role that we explicitly pursue very often.
The A-10 worked in combat. Not works. They’re bought and paid for and I have no issue with retaining some for CSAR or interdiction against an opponent with nonexistent anti-aircraft capabilities. MANPADs get better, and proliferate more and more in non-state actor’s hands every year. I value our pilots. I value the…
Yep, always a lot of people with tough talk. Typically they’re the same people who have absolutely no clue what it feels like to be blinded by adrenaline, excitement, and fear and being 110% reliant on training and equipment. The more you do it, the easier it becomes to think through it, but those first few times is…
I hear ya man.
The DoD makes a lot of decisions based on information that simply isn’t available to everyone, yet Tyler loves to paint this picture that everything they do, as far as procurement goes, is the height of stupidity or is simply designed to fleece the country. At this point in my life, im not privvy to more information…
Lockheed is a business. The entire point of their existence is to make money. I’m sure they’ve done some sketchy shit to maximize profits, but I don’t believe for one second they’re intentionally fucking up the F-35 for monetary reasons. As I said, I’ve met many of those type of folks. Not Lockheed specifically, but…
I have no problem with the idea of the F-35. Just how it was executed. I would have much rather seen a strike variant of the F-22, and then the F-35 built specifically for the Marine Corps from the onset. The Navy is the tough one. Making a naval variant of the F-22 would have had some negative impact on its…
That simply isn’t true. I wasn’t a Marine but I was combat arms and i did do multiple tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, along with a few other places.
As usual, more F-35 drivel. This time using test pilots to supposedly shame the program.
Game, set, match. Thanks for commenting brother.
Love how you have five stars and the dipshits have 30. This blog and it’s commenters are about the most military ignorant on the internet. War is Boring is sure a contender though.
CIWS is absolutely pointless. It’s the absolute last line of defense, and with a big and fast AhSM, even if the CIWS connects, the ship is still gonna get peppered and lives lost.
The USN very clearly identified these aircraft as the maritime reconnaissance variant, not the cruise missile slinging variant. It would help if I knew exactly which Bear they appeared to be. There are like five different variants of the maritime recon version on it’s own. They saw no stores under the wings (where the…
That is a restricted airspace, over a high value target, in sovereign territory. A carrier in international waters isn’t the same thing.
Because they weren’t a threat...
Dude, thanks so much for showing me that. That made my evening.
I wonder if this is the same medical station that had to be very quickly abandoned as it was caring for tens of thousands of clones and Grevious was leading a force to take it out.