Yup. That's why Gen. Hostage has said he needs every last F-22 he can get. They can do things the F-35 guys can only daydream about.

IDK about the F-35 having any speed advantage though, not like the F-111's ability to dash. F-35s can't super cruise and their exhaust puts out a lot of heat even in mil setting, so AB…

Yup. The A-10's CIRCM isn't built in; it's carried on external pod under the wing. So you've got to go out there every day with one under the wing. That's one less weapon station you've got that can carry a bomb. And when you're losing another weapon station to a sensor pod. Frankly, that altitude you mentioned seems…

Great. Unfortunately, even if the plane manages to get back home, you're still down a plane. It's either a write off or you've got to divert manpower away from hanging bombs on working planes and turning them around towards getting the damaged plane back into the fight.

"Survivability" is not getting hit in the first…

Do we get to choose? I've always wanted to visit Australia.

Somebody wake up Hicks.

"What is the manoeuvrability like on the F-35?"

Not great. The adjective "pig" gets thrown around a lot. IIRC, at one point it was likened to that of the F-4 or an fully loaded (CFTs topped off with gas and loaded with weapons) F-15E.

The wing loading of the A and B models is pretty low. At one point the A was going to…

You mean like an F-15E loaded with SDBs?

+ Quick to respond to a call from JTAC.
+ Capable of attacking from beyond range of MANPADs.
+ Can attack before whomever has the MANPAD know they're there or where they are exactly.
- Even with internal fuel and CFTs, gas (and loiter time) is a factor.

The alternate would be…

"never was the end all solution to begin with, but it still has its place."

Very true. And to avoid any confusion, my comment wasn't directed towards you specifically.

Based on that FA article, I'm surprised he didn't pitch the A-10 as a C-130J replacement.

See the problem about contested airspace. This is a problem for the AC-130 too, so it comes down to redundancy. Why have two platforms that can do the same job when one is 40 years old and the other is brand new and can loiter for much longer than the Hog can?

Two things:

1. Standoff ranges. the AC-130 has long been vulnerable to MANPADS and that's just going to get worse. The current generation of MANPADs has a range greater than that of the AC-130's guns.

2. Gun Accuracy. The further away you are from the target, the less accurate your gun will be. See #1.

There will always…

More of a mess than we realize? Gizmodo, this is just the tip of the iceberg; you have no idea how much of a charlie-foxtrot this program is.

Wrong.

The reason the F-22 wasn't "built to spec" was because of Congressional budget cuts - that's why the F-22 still doesn't carry the AIM-9X or a helmet mounted display.

And just because no one else had a stealth air-to-air fighter is completely irrelevant because the greatest threat to all aircraft is from IADS.…

So, Disney removed the shot of Rocket adjusting himself from trailer 2 and replaced it with a quick shot of Chris Pratt to balance out the time?

I think I'm starting to understand why Ant-Man is having such a hard time getting before the cameras right now.

Vipers were able to get there first, drop their bombs and depart the airspace so whomever was controlling that airspace, be it JTAC or an airborne asset, could control in the next flight - which in this case, happened to be A-10s. One of the Vipers needed to get gas since he was mid-refueling when the call came in and…

Is no one else bothered by the fact that the Hogs were so slow to get there, that the Vipers had to - and could - go in first and drop all their bombs while waiting for fresh planes with fresh bombs to arrive?

"The Navy says that there were no military operations happening at the time that can explain the light."

He uses it to fight against the crustacean armies and all the shrimps and jellyfish in the sea.

I'm not the one who claimed the S-37 was an actual warplane.

The XB-70 was no more of a bomber than the S-37 was a fighter. Both were pre-production prototypes (ie - T-10, YF-12, YF-16, YF-17, YF-22, YF-23, X-32 & X-35). Prototypes are not actual warplanes. Despite their ability to carry weapons, the YF-16, YF-22 and X-35 would never be deployed for combat any more than the…