FACT: Against modern Russian & Chinese air defenses, your A-10 is dead the moment it takes off from its runway. It’s not 1990 any longer.
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Fact: 80 percent of close air support in Iraq and Afganistan was conducted by planes other than the A10. The B1 carries much more ordinance and can loiter longer. The B1 was responsible for 40% of all CAS alone. Don't tell me the A10 is the be all do all. CAS is a mission, not a plane.
The problem with McCain is that his personal brand of close air support has always been a little too close for the people on the ground under him. Aside from his clear tendency to crash into every object at hand (target fixation much?), I don’t think that slamming into the ground and being captured should be treated…
It makes absolutely no sense to give the army the A10. Where are they going to get the maintenance, training programs, airfields, ect to run it? Planes cost a lot of money and the marine corps already has the resources to maintain them.
For me, the all time best Vader bit was in the season 2 premiere.
First, there was the ominous dark side chill that Ezra was feeling.
Dane Cook? the Karate of comedians?
I was going to say it seemed strange that he was willfully ignoring the article.
It’ll be fine. All of this whining is just sour grapes anymore. It’s already fine. As an airplane it’s more than good enough. People like the British believe that so vehemently they’re wrapping an entire capital ship in it’s success.
How dare you spread that pro-F-35 agenda here!? Everyone knows that A-10 is the best tool for every job. In the hand of a capable and well trained pilot it can fly circles around the Su-27.
But that makes too much sense.
The 35 has been performing it’s flight test since the 2012 re-baseline on schedule for the most part. Software on this scale is unprecedented as is devolpingskill three planes at once. The gun is not operative not because there is any problem just that the services decided to prioritize other capabilities.
I would say I’m sorry but it would be a lie.
I respect your commitment to the reference.
They’re just upset that he’s a man of wealth and taste. He’s been around for long, long years and he’s stolen many a man’s soul and faith. I mean, he was around when Jesus Christ had his moments of doubt and pain. Didn’t you know he made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate.
As a manufacturing engineer, you don’t wait till your machine is toast to start ordering a new one.
Is the F35 replacing the A-10.... or is it replacing the F-16, which is already performing the bulk of CAS missions?
They’re buying 2020's F-35s right now for like $85 million or something, IIRC
The problem is it wont last past one gun run in an actual conflict with modern SAMs and SPAAGs the slow moving low flying craft would get shredded trying to perform its original role against modern forces.
Better at what? Eating SAMs? Or staying high and slow outside that WEZ...Wait, don’t strike fighters do that? Sh*t!