[ThinkingBuddha]

I wonder how the F-35 is going to do in this role?

[Figment]

Meet the pig! He is not your friend . So appropriate the warthog got them

[The_Media_never_lie]

So, we are attacking ISIS elements? Inert, or chemically reactive?

[FreeAtlanta]

No kidding. An intelligent congress and defense department would recreate the A10 assembly lines and make 10,ooo new ones.

[BigEdLB]

“The raids resulted in the death and injury of dozens of ISIS elements.”
Element?

So Isis has their own Periodic table? Jihadium? Mohamedenium? Talabanium? Alquedium? Good night...

[Liberty Valance]

[Usagi_yo]

At 12x the cost, 5x the altitude and 3x the groud speed and 1/8 as effective.

[JPG]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[captain_dave]

A-10 Warthogs Attack!

[ryan71]

All this thing does is kick ass and take names and the Air Force still hates it. Let the Marines and Army take them.

[GBA]

Badass bird.

Not sure how to improve it, but now that it's been in the field for a while and battle tested, I would love to see someone (on our side) try to make it even better.

If it can't be improved with a new version, then build some more.

[Red_Devil 232]

And we have a Sec. of the Air Force that is determined to scrap the A-10. She is an Idiot!

[ThomasMore]

They’ve been trying to retire this old BEAST for a long time. I think to do that would be a colossal mistake. The WartHog is the jet version of the “JUG” so famously nicknamed by the brave men who flew them during WWII (My father-in-law BG. Donald W. “Bud” Guilfoyle for one...Silver Star recipient and recent RI Aviation Hall of Famer). They, the A10s, are as reliable and as badass(even more so) as the JUG ever was according to General “Bud” who had first hand experience in both.

[5thGenTexan]

I wonder how the F-35 is going to do in this role?

It can't. The role is loitering over a site with massive air-to-ground firepower, like the A-10's nose Gatling gun. The role requires a low stall speed using the airframe and not directed thrust. And a big gun...

[RinaseaofDs]

The A-10 is obsolete, don’t you know.

Transfer it to the Marines and Army - problem solved.

[ConservativeInPA]

I am waiting for the day they convert a KC-135 Stratotanker into a PF-135. The PF designation being new for “Pig Fat”. The PF-135 would have a heat plant that boils pig fat. When over Muslim targets, it sprays the molten pig fat killing the vile, evil scum in a slow unmerciful manner. Personally, I don’t have a problem with cruelty in it. They will burn in hell anyway.

[headstamp 2]

There is no hiding from the flying pig.

LOL

[9422WMR]

“prompting the remaining elements of the organization to leave the bodies of their dead and carry the wounded to escape towards the Shirqat district (120 km north of Tikrit).”
Well now we know where to find them......
Blast em to bits. Let the sand fleas feast on the remains.

[M Kehoe]

The Sec. of the Air Force states that the A-10 should be retired. Of course she has zero combat experience.

Did I mention that I like pork?

5.56mm

[CivilWarBrewing]

The mouth looks 'hollow' but that's actually glossy black paint and a reflection from the GAU-8/A cannon...

BEAUTIFUL!