Critical read. Big lobby holding up a required, requested, COMBAT tested, mission essential platform that the folks on the ground want....NOW. Despicable! Those who know, know this is a NO Brainer.
1 posted on
06/10/2010 8:48:41 AM PDT by
Slam
To: Slam
But, but, but....what are we gonna do about the oil spill? /s
These government morons could care less about our troops! ERRR!
2 posted on
06/10/2010 8:54:05 AM PDT by
GWMcClintock
("We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaki)
To: Slam
3 posted on
06/10/2010 8:54:27 AM PDT by
houeto
(Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
To: Slam
Air Force no wanto. Must have F-16, preferably F-22, or maybe OKayee, but just, an F35 drop bombs on four guys with AK’s next to a rock.
Another alternative is to start the Joint Light Attack Aircraft Program. Hundreds of slots for Air Force captains,
Colonels, Generals. Ten years of design studies at the cost of billions, then competition, and then they grunts in the hills can get their support.
4 posted on
06/10/2010 8:57:10 AM PDT by
Leisler
("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
To: Slam
THIS is how we can win in Afghanistan (Dresden style!).
5 posted on
06/10/2010 8:57:22 AM PDT by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: Slam
Always wondered when prop planes would be called back into service in the ME... the good ole strafings of WWII.
7 posted on
06/10/2010 9:08:56 AM PDT by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: Slam
Super Tucanos are VERY capable aircraft.
THe SOCOM boys wouldn’t put in a specific request for them if they were not EXACTLY the right tool for the task at hand
10 posted on
06/10/2010 9:27:37 AM PDT by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: Slam
What they are talking about, a Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano
What I am talk'n about...
Piper PA-48 Enforcer (pictured above). The PA-48 is an updated version of the World War II-era North American P-51 Mustang, which the USAF evaluated in the early 1970s for a possible COIN role. One potential issue is the PA-48 would not meet the USAF's requirement for a two-seat fighter.
Talk about a slick ride to cruse the Texas Mexican border, forget the drones.
18 posted on
06/10/2010 10:04:29 AM PDT by
TLI
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