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!
BRAVO!
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.
I wouldn’t be so sure the prints exist.