Posted on 07/31/2021 7:20:22 AM PDT by Onthebrink
Remember the airforce pilot that took an A-10 and crashed it in Colorado? I wonder what the real story was behind that incident?
Where’s the ‘BRAAAAAAAAAAAAT’?
Who actually wants this bird?
Army?
Move them over to the Army.
And the B-1B flew more CAS missions over the last 10 years.
Retire it for something less effective but more expensive. Its the military way.
That is the only sensible solution.
“ Who actually wants this bird?‘
The grunts on the ground sure do.
Have you heard those suspicions from anyone who lived on this planet?
One of the big advantages is they are old enough that they don’t rely on computer chips made in China.
Too bad that ani-gif doesn’t have sound; the brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp is amazing and fills the muslim(SPIT!) enemy with fear.
The Air Force wants to replace the A-10 ($10,000/hr) with the F-35 ($30,000/hr), to save money. Not sure if they worked the $80,000,000 unit cost in to the F-35 hourly rate.
Manned aircraft are great in technologically asymmetrical warfare, but in a matched all out contest, they lose to robots 100%. They should make do with the manned aircraft they have, and replace them with drones, etc, as needed.
I didn’t know about that one
I’m sure the Marines could put it to good use.
Ah yes: that secret missile that looks exactly like an airliner, loaded with famous people. Nothing like a ton of security video and eyewitnesses to start the tinfoil hat brigade going.
Idiot.
I know we were "Allies" of Stalin, but he still treated us like shi'ite, because he was always a tyrannical Richard.
Wikipedia: Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements. He claimed 51 aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front, usually flying the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber.
Yeah, because Air Force pilots ALWAYS obey every order like automatons and just go out and kill fellow servicemen when told to.
I hate when civilians think all servicemen are like what they see in movies.
Of all the services, the USAF is least likely to blindly follow orders.
However, we "point-of-the-spear-in-face-to-face combat with the enemy" types value the close-in and devastating use of dedicated air for frontline support. We Marines have always insisted on it and our flying Marines have always delivered it. The army would be wise to build their own direct support fixed wing units - but the Air Force would fight them tooth and nail.
Imaging how much better things would have gone if the landing forces on Omaha Beach had well-trained and gutsy Dauntless/Helldiver squadrons, delivering 500 pounders on those cliffs overlooking the landing beaches. Would have saved a lot of infantry lives.
But the reality is this is just a vendor keeping his contract. Its not about the military or jobs or anything else. Its all about one vendor holding on to a contract that nobody needs or wants.
That’s general Milley types. They do whatever the globalists tell them. Globalists wasn’t that money for new programs and couldn’t care less about CAS.
It doesn’t have the beauy that the brass desire, so get rid of it regardless of how beneficial it is.
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