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To: gaijin

It looks so fragile that if the pilot sneezed it’ll blow the wings off and eject the pilot.


3 posted on 04/11/2018 4:22:47 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

Great fan of Rutan and his aircraft, BUT, THAT is not a replacement for the A-10 either in terms of amount of firepower it can carry, nor in survivability. I doubt that thing will return when you know out an engine (oops, only 1) and half the airframe.


5 posted on 04/11/2018 4:28:32 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: SkyDancer

Rutan is a brilliant designer, and his composite craft are sturdier than they look.

But, I don’t see that replacing the A-10 in any wa , shape or form.


6 posted on 04/11/2018 4:29:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SkyDancer

That was my thought. The point of the A-10 is that it can take a huge amount of damage and still fly - and still inflict massive damage against enemy ground forces. I don’t want a composite A-10; I want a solid, durable one. I don’t want a high-tech replacement; I want a reliable, combat-ready replacement.

The best answer would be to build new airframes (approved modifications to the A-10 included) from the existing design. I don’t trust the establishment to design something better from scratch, not when they seem to go in the opposite direction every time. The real A-10 does its job. Let’s build more!


7 posted on 04/11/2018 4:30:51 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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The A-10 was basically built around its 30mm Cannon. This aircraft could not possibly be armed with the GRU. A-10’s durability is unmatched. I have seen nothing that comes close to replacing it. I find it astonishing the “plans” (for the lack of the technical term) were destroyed and we cannot duplicate this aircraft.


14 posted on 04/11/2018 4:37:02 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: SkyDancer

“It looks so fragile that if the pilot sneezed it’ll blow the wings off and eject the pilot.”<——- What he sad.


46 posted on 04/11/2018 7:31:38 PM PDT by moehoward
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My thoughts too - the A-10 is a hardened air-frame with a Titanium tub for a cockpit - and will fly with half a wing blown off...this looks like it would kill the pilot in hopes of getting off easy as it ran away...


55 posted on 04/12/2018 3:53:47 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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