Posted on 03/02/2015 5:09:27 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Looks a lot like our A-10. I see they are upgrading there fleet while we are trying to sh*tcan ours.
It says many are in ‘long term storage’. Do you know where that is? Or if it is visible on Google earth?
Heck, its engines are trash and fail on a regular basis. . .all the time and it flies around the traffic pattern with its speed-brakes deployed to keep the engine's spooled up otherwise they take too long to get back to usable thrust if needed (and compressor stall, too).
Gun is short-range and inaccurate.
Range is short and loiter time is crappy.
Other than that, a fine jet.
300km combat radius? About 150 miles is it? Wow, just more Russian built avionics that have limited endurance and capabilities, unless you ask the Russian media.
I can always rely on the local FR Air Force mafia to complete the picture. Now if I could only get an idea of why the JSF 35 critics are wrong. There must be a lot of super secret advantages to this thing that make up for shortcomings.
It is based on the plane that was the runner-up to the A-10.
None are so blind as those who refuse to see...
lol
Interesting. Which company/consortium proffered the runner up plan?
It’s remarkably close to the Northrop A-9, which lost to the A-10 in the CAS flyoff.
“I can always rely on the local FR Air Force mafia to complete the picture.”
That would be. . .
“I can always rely on the local FR Air Force mafia—AND FORMER A-10 FIGHETR PILOT — to complete the picture.”
JSF critics are not wrong.
Yes, at AMARG, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Very easy to find on Google maps, but I prefer Wikimappia ...
Yup, the A-9.... Looked like a scaled down B-57 Canberra IMO.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=northrup+A-9&FORM=HDRSC2
Whole chickens?
And a Coke.
More like a single sest F6D Missileer (which was an evolution of the F3D Skyknight), IMHO.
"On the other hand, when the Russian Air Force was using Su-25 in South Ossetia to prevent the march of the Georgian army equipped with Soviet air defence systems, transferred to Georgia by Ukraine, it lost three attack aircraft, according to official figures."
Northrop-ski A9
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