That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard - the biggest cost of maintenance of the A-10 is it's gun - the GAU-8 has a 250k rd service life-span. Unit cost for an A-10 was estimated by FAS at ~$13M per plane, the cost of an F-35 w/weapons systems is estimated at $100-130M per PLANE. That is 10x A-10s for 1x…