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A-10 Warthogs return
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| February 19, 2015
| Jennifer H. Svan
Posted on 02/21/2015 8:09:04 PM PST by Rabin
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Finally, and as yet, less than 10%. Rab fears the others have already been scrapped out beyond recall.
Raben.
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:09:04 PM PST
by
Rabin
To: Rabin
No problem. We can use the new and improved F-22185235 fits-alls on them.
To: Rabin
Rab fears the others have already been scrapped out beyond recall. Germany made a critical tank production mistake in WW II: Instead of making large numbers of one proven model (the Panther), they wasted resources by fooling around with many different models (the Tiger, the Elephant, etc).
Is America following that same path? For example, would we be better off with 20 B-1's or 200 B-52's?
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:26:05 PM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: Leaning Right
We don’t have the tooling to build either B-1s or B-52s.
...or for that matter, A-10s.
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:29:01 PM PST
by
MediaMole
To: Leaning Right
JOBS!
;-) :-D
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:30:21 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Rabin
The new untested replacement for the warthog will be in 2023, I believe.
Meanwhile, nothing is better for close combat air support than the A-10. You can’t bring it down, unless you blow it up in mid air. The speed is just right for getting at the enemy on the ground. Remember, we are not engaged in high speed dogfights. Getting them mothballed in Germany does no good for the troops on the ground, who can attest how they have saved their bacon. It’s big, it’s ugly and it’s deadly.
I would look if bribes are being made.
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:36:50 PM PST
by
lulu16
(May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
To: Rabin
.....
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posted on
02/21/2015 8:51:17 PM PST
by
virgil283
(..The Founding Fathers!: The Gun loving, Bible thumping, Constitutionalists Who Started America)
To: Leaning Right
200 B-52’s ?
Unfortunately, we signed a treaty with Moscow, decades ago, the 76 B-52s in service now, are the limit. There are 12 more sitting in the AZ bone yard, but the only way they can be put back in service, is if one of the existing ones is taken out. A fire on one at Barksdale caused it to be replaced, just this year, by a bone yard B-52, as it was cheaper to restore it, than to repair the damaged one.
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posted on
02/21/2015 9:04:53 PM PST
by
jttpwalsh
To: MediaMole
Ya know, I’m sick of hearing about tooling.
The tooling didn’t exist before they were originally built. Tooling can be rebuilt. And with today’s production tools for making tools; it will be, or can be quicker. The blueprints still exist after all, not to mention a whole boatload of folks who’ve been flying, maintaining, and upgrading them ever since they came off the line.
The problem isn’t tooling, or capability - it’s the will!
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posted on
02/21/2015 9:11:42 PM PST
by
AFreeBird
To: AFreeBird
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posted on
02/21/2015 9:17:13 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2015!)
To: virgil283; Hulka
Is that FReeper Hulka in the cockpit searchin’ for a few ground targets.....also known as ‘Muzzie Plinkin’ A-10 style!!?
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posted on
02/21/2015 9:44:31 PM PST
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: TaMoDee
I remember the A-10 back in the early 80’s Spangdahlem housed the Ammo for them. What a great tank killer and of course anything it hit was DOA!!!!
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posted on
02/21/2015 10:06:38 PM PST
by
Busko
(The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
To: Rabin
With a unit hosting 100 A-10s theoretically I could support 100 missions.
If my unit has instead 15 F-35s how many missions can I support?
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posted on
02/21/2015 10:10:56 PM PST
by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
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posted on
02/21/2015 10:12:30 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: lulu16
I would look if bribes are being made. If there aren't bribes, then we're talking lethal levels of incompetence.
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posted on
02/21/2015 10:15:50 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
If my unit has instead 15 F-35s how many missions can I support? Three to Five, due to maintenance/resupply logistics...
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posted on
02/21/2015 10:19:10 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: AFreeBird
I hear ya. But I think the point about “retooling” is that if you have to go to the trouble of making A-10’s anew, you might as well put together something even better for the all the resources being spent.
We can’t build Saturn rockets for the same reason. So instead of retooling to make Saturn moon rockets, we’re better off making a better moon rocket.
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posted on
02/21/2015 11:40:46 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Rabin
Theoretically, could the Hog take out an M1 Abrams tank?
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posted on
02/22/2015 12:01:28 AM PST
by
deadrock
(I is someone else.)
To: Rabin
Sounds like 128 of those beauties could be used productively to deal with those daily parades of hundreds of ISIS trucks in Syria celebrating “victories” daily.
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posted on
02/22/2015 12:16:24 AM PST
by
publius911
(Formerly Publius6961)
To: Rabin
Them A10`s ain`t doing no good in Germany-
they should be in Kiev.
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posted on
02/22/2015 3:56:33 AM PST
by
bunkerhill7
("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))
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