[Joe Boucher]

The A-10 is not sexy and high cost enough for the fools that run the airforce.
While it is not the fastest nor the stealthiest, it is the "tank killer". And it does this job superbly.
Just a typical govt. ploy to get ever more funding for newer and bigger and faster not necessarily better.
This decision will come back to bite the military planners in the form of higher cssualty rates. Idiots.

[lavaroise]

This decision will come back to bite the military planners in the form of higher cssualty rates. Idiots.

They already did stupid things, like retire 30 B1-B bombers right after their stellar job as loitering bomb trucks over Afghanistan. B1-Bs go where aircraft carriers cannot go.