Yeah, I’m sure the people who live in huts that we keep fighting

Your using numbers in your post. Big mistake.

You were what to make this very joke?

UGH I WAS COMING TO MAKE THIS VERY JOKE

This may be heresy, but I am oddly okay with this.

doesn't matter its fucking rad

What next, 420 counts of drug offences?

Sometimes the lowest-hanging fruit tastes the sweetest.

69 counts of indecent exposure? Nice.

Yes, compared to the A-10 its faster, but that comes at significant penalty.

I mean if you really want to make it even more of a threat make it RC. A10 with a remote pilot, more ordinance, fuel and loiter time would make perfect sense to fill this roll while keeping the pilot out of the line of fire in dangerous missions like this.

Liberals can’t take a joke about their president

In a total war, some losses have to be acceptable. Sometimes, CSAR cannot be launched simply because the are is too hot.

Fast? Since when? You load a Frogfoot with its war load and you’ll be lucky to get 350-400 knots out of it.

This is picture of the 35b with four SDBs

F-35 can carry the same combat load as an A-10 in terms of sheer weight with almost double the combat radius and better integrated sensors. A single F-35 in a clean configuration with no externals can loft 8 small diameter bombs internally along with two AIM-120 AMRAAMs for self-defense.

Dude, F-22s aren’t going to clean up all the 2S6s, the ZSU-23-4s, the SA-24s, FN-6s... that is a nearly impossible task. How about instead of standing there like Rocky, we do a Muhammad Ali and try not to get hit.

the F-35 might not be the best CAS solution, but running your numbers using the AGM-65 is a little behind. APKWS, GBU-12, JDAM, etc. are all in the mix of ordnance. For low-intensity COIN, something like the Super Tucano, or rotary wing CAS (especially when supported by UAS) is wayyyyyy cheaper than an A-10, can…

Actually, a bomb bay full of precision guided weapons with a CEP measured in just a few meters is PERFECT for danger close. I don’t have my JFIRE handy, but I bet you ten bucks the CEP for a laser guided bomb is smaller than an unguided 30mm round.

More important than that, F-35's can flex between different phases of an operation. In early days of an op they can fly with internal weapons only, maintaining stealth, to take down Integrated Air Defenses. After the airspace is more permissive and stealth is less valuable, F-35's can bolt on the external racks and…