100% A-10 can loiter ~1hour, the F-35 can do what, one PASS?
Posted on 04/27/2016 3:58:00 PM PDT by Chode
They would have to reconstitute and restart the F-22 line. We are not smart enough to mothball that stuff for a rainy day.
They would have to reconstitute and restart the F-22 line. We are not smart enough to mothball that stuff for a rainy day.
100% A-10 can loiter ~1hour, the F-35 can do what, one PASS?
The A-10 for CAS. By a lot.
The F-35 for everything else.
But IMHO the F-22 would kick the F-35’s tail in “everything else.”
That’s not the test. It’s ability to provide CAS and SAR.
The hog WAS designed for that.
If the AF wants to get rid of the A10, the Army should insist on their transfer...
So could a run of the mill F-16. I think what they mean is, can the F-35 Porkdodo linger over a battlefield and provide CAS the way a 'Hog can. The mission is, provide CAS.
“guess who wins...”
Sort of like expecting a Don King boxer to lose.
Clusterf*ck, including massive cost overruns.. Almost as if the whole thing was by design as part of the overall weakening of America. It doesn't even LOOK menacing. The F-16, F/A-18, F-22 and even the A-10 (with mouth painted on) LOOKS menacing.
A lot of things the A-10 can accomplish, can be done even better by an AC-130 Spectre. It is very vulnerable to anti aircraft but I have read that the A-10 is also despite all that armor.
Look Ma! Flying turds!
The F-35 will either miss the enemy, or hit our troops, as it zooms by on its single pass ever ten minutes or so.
Good points.
“Now we’re potentially in a dogfight for which the F-35 is not designed.”
I thought they were just talking about ground support tests.
Not that it doesn't happen
I just never hear of it ... and if it DOES occur, I don't think it's enough to support a completely new airframe
From what I see ... the A-10 is the perfect platform to work with/from
Build the same thing with more modern materials, but keep the Hog.
The A-10 can be based from a rough airfield that is only minutes from take off to targets. The airfields can be shifted constantly, even landing on roads etc. A C-130 is not nicknamed “Fat Albert” for nothing. Great if you own the entire battlespace above the treetops, but terrible if an enemy has manpads. Sitting ducks, then.
They were desperate to find a plane the 35 could at least outrun.
This isn’t A-10 fighting the F-35, it is both planes accomplishing the same missions and seeing which has the advantage. I wonder if the F-35 could even beat the A-1 Spad.
“I thought they were just talking about ground support tests.”
I was riffing on the near uselessness of having a huge technical advantage, beyond visual range shoot-down capability, and not being politically allowed to use it.
I sometimes wonder how an updated Skyraider would do. they had a really good lift capacity and were really tough from what I have read.
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