There’s something basically wrong with the concept of a quadrillion-dollar jet fighter plane... Somebody wasn’t thinking as hard as he needed to.
Who said beware of the industrial military complex? Was it Ike?
The A 10 is a terrible jet
It’s slow it’s ugly it makes no money for jet manufacture red
It scares the crap out of the enemy ground troops, can blast tanks at low altitude, soars in in a two ship
The retiring generals always like to try to promise their new employer they’ll get rid of her and then some skirmish comes up whither a real job to do and the A 10 gets called on to go out and get shot up and come back in for a landing followed by a good story
I was once told By an F 15 pilot that A 10 pilots are good pilots but to watch out for them, They eat nails. I guess so
Titanium bathtub
Wings
Engines whose shape provides lift
BFG
Done.