guess who wins...
Posted on 04/27/2016 3:58:00 PM PDT by Chode
guess who wins...
The 'Hog wasn't made for air superiority or straight up dog fighting.
The AF is getting a new Chief of Staff. I guess we will see soon.
More than NOT REALLY...
Hussein retards running the show now....
I hate the F-35. Even the designation was screwed up.
ummm... it's not head to head one-v-one, it's how well they do in their mission profile
Maybe like a Corvette vs a Ferguson Tractor.
But we need just one winner.
Let’s see that Corvette gear down for pulling in a muddy field.
F-35s over the Florida Panhandle.
The deck will be stacked badly against the A-10. Bet on it!
The fight will be F-35 against Silkworm batteries
1500 km from the carriers.
Oh, is that beyond their range ... as planned?
“It could acquire the A-10 and launch radar guided air-to-air missiles from at least 50 miles away.”
Here is the fallacy about the ability to shoot out of sight targets. The military has had that ability for a very long time. But politically most leaders would not allow that for fear of shooting down a civilian target. Therefore the leaders will throw away the one advantage the US would have against most big league adversaries, technical superiority. You can bet no missiles will be launched without visual verification of the target. Now we’re potentially in a dogfight for which the F-35 is not designed.
Yeah the hog is for close air support of the infantry. Which we need. We also need dog fighters. Keep them both. Use right tool for each job.
I remember A-10s whipping F-16’s in 2v2.
Can the F-35 loiter and then blanket 100 square yards with 30 mm rounds in 3 seconds from 2,000 feet?
Men might get killed on the ground because of this decision, but the males in the Romney & Sununu families will be safe & sound.
will an F-35 make the enemy crap themselves if the see it approach?
You are correct, sir. However, history tells us that the last time that enemy aircraft attacked U.S. forces was the Korean War. We have enjoyed air supremacy since. Once you have that, A-10’s can do the prime principle of war better than anyone other machine, namely massing fire at the decisive place and time. And, they do it at a fraction of any aircraft, including the price of rebuilding all of the tools require to build more.
The real question is how do we maintain our air supremacy? The answer does not appear to be the F-35, it seems to be the F-22. My simple Infantry mind believes that we should build more F-22’s and more A-10’s in an upgraded version.
Didn’t an F-35 lose to an F-16? There’s a food chain theory afoot here.
How about testing the metric “minutes spent right above our troops giving them immediate on-call fire support per dollar spent.”
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