You are a redneck. There will be no high society for you. Never.

Actually, a big part of it was the Washington Naval Treaty, as well as WW2 as you mentioned. Most obsolete battleships, and all dreadnoughts, had to be scrapped upon replacement. So any ship surviving WW1 (not many outside of US, UK and Japan) would likely be scrapped in order to preserve a more modern hull.

That’s assigned sorties. Missions numbers are a bit different, but tell the same story: CAS has been taken over by fast jets and drones. Multirole, bombers and drones account for over 79% of sorties and more than 72% of missions. And that’s not counting the AV-8 as multirole (it can be used that way, but generally…

No, you don’t fucking get it because you don’t understand your singular opinion means exactly dick.

I feel like I’m repeating myself. How is this not clear to you ?

You seem pretty dense. You could be BUILDING these things (or at least claim to, like I said and you failed to grasp, people say lots of shit on the internet to suggest they are an authority on something and thus immune from criticism), and your claims will remain anecdotal evidence, which isn’t proof.

No...antiabortionists kind of revel in that kind of imagry.

The endgame was taking the chemical weapons off the table. Mission accomplished without a shot fired. This is just the postseason exhibition game where there’s no stakes, only pride, on the line. For America, I mean. The Syrians...well...they’re dying by the thousands and fleeing by the millions.

1) Too bad, because it is an anecdote.

Anecdotes do not make a fallacy valid.

First half of your question is valid, but my interest in sharing sources nosedived the moment you threw the genetic fallacy at me. I’m not wasting my time wrestling with Kinja just to have it handwaved by the intellectually lazy.

Lol. You haven’t been paying attention have you? Something like 80% of CAS missions are flown by Eagles/Falcons, and when the A-10 does fly CAS it’s required to stay above 10,000ft because it’s a sitting duck for MANPADS, where its sensors are far inferior. The fast jets are altitude-unrestricted because they’re…

No, I’m saying the F-15/16 already HAVE replaced the A-10.

Farming is not rock and roll. It is the definition of country.

Yes. Farming.

1) It’s MANPADS, not “man pads”. It’s an acronym.

They already have that: the A-10s original mission profile is obsolete. It was designed in an era before effective MANPADS. It is not survivable when they are present.

In a word? Strawman.

Ironic does not mean what you appear to think it means.

F-22 and F-35 have APUs, as do most earlier US aircraft.