Counter-argument:

See also: F-14 and the A-10. Planes overhyped in every online corner because of successful marketing and past glories.

Ford under Fields and Hackett are making, almost point-for-point, the same mistakes that US automakers made in the 80s and 90s, by ignoring its weak points and focusing on a narrowing market sector that it knows it can corner:

laughing at people for needing to do certain things to fall asleep because they are not biologically blessed like other people is a shitty thing to do and im sorry you dont believe in the power of tea. go make fun of people somewhere else to someone else because i am not that kind of person.

I hate ALL Republicans, but John McCain earned my respect the day he defended Barack Obama while campaigning against him.

Oh come on. Your post history indicates you know as well as I do that’s not the way the Academies work.

“Because a solemn respect for war and soldiers is the most bipartisan area of agreement in this country”

The only real piece of shit here is you. The man did more for this country than your stupid ass sitting on the couch. 

I would probably respond to this article, Drew, but I need to check with George Soros on what liberal talking points and affirmations I need for this subject. As a paid protester and actor hired by Open Society Foundations, I want to properly represent my opinion that aligns with His (Soros) views.

I only have more questions now.

So we should limit what the army/marines can do to accommodate the A-10's limitations?

Because the ground troops need air support all the time, not just when it is convenient?

The A10 isn’t even being used for what it was designed for, and it’s original design was a stop gap with a short life expectancy in the technology of 40 years ago.

This is the 35B which has a pod rather than an integral gun, and thus probably carries less ammunition. The 35A and C presumably are as effective in gun runs as any other main line fighter jet - that is to say not as much as the A-10.

The SDB has a CEP (circular error probable, the distance from exact aiming point) of 5-8m. The GAU-8 has a CEP of 40.

Well, you know. All CAS aircraft since WW2 have been completely ineffective except the A-10.

SDB is a smart bomb so it’s pretty accurate. Never got the sense that A-10's gun is that accurate (at least when mounted to the A-10, hard to hit stuff when you are flying at a few hundred miles per hour). The big risk to the A-10 is just that you’ll be somewhere where enemy SAMs (or fighters) are prevalent enough…

And you’d basically have to redesign the entire sensor and avionics suite to do it.