The first Green Berets in Afghanistan after 9/11 rode horseback with the Northern Alliance. After recognizing the utility of horses and mules in the backcountry, they decided to make it part of Special Forces training.

it’s been 13 years?!

I have great respect for forward thinkers, especially in the field of physics.

Here we go again with the A10! It is 50 year old technology! Time for an upgrade!

This is Foxtrot Alpha where A-10 is the answer. Brrttt!

“Chief MANPADS fire absorber.”

Chief small-arms fire absorber.

Because their design sucks. They are overweight and under performing.

They will up-arm them, as opposed to up-gun them. Naval gunfire is has been technology, with almost all of our combatants being armed with a single 5 inch gun, and most amphibious vessels not even that.

Do you even F-35?

And that role is...?

Agreed. In this case the defense industry developed two radically different designs for the same operational specifications. The fact that the Navy couldn’t decide and then chose both defeated the intention of competition.

meanwhile her husband was breaking in his cigar in the USS Lewinsky

Yes. We don’t build much in drydocks anymore. Most ships are built modularly, and then welded together on the dock, and then dropped in.

I think the A-10 successor needs to be drone based - and it needs to be smaller and much cheaper. It should be controllable from a forward drone controller as well as from back at base. The way I envision it would be more like a circling AC-130, miniaturized and essentially disposable, providing a machine gun nest in…

We probably agree that the Key West accord is dumb and that the army should be able to operate what ever CAS aircraft they want to, although I suspect they would prefer more apaches over A10s.

Mate piss of then.. Congrats your a prick, the kind of typical asshat who gives immigrants who live here happily like myself a bad name

We all will have to deal with far more than Russian arrogance if that happens