[DesertRhino]

Thank goodness the RAND corporation is out there to study such things. I bet most of the Army will be utterly blindsided to learn that the A-10 is so effective and critical.

Wonder how much we paid for this study?

[I cannot think of a name]

“Thank goodness the RAND corporation is out there to study such things”

Well, you know what - if it keeps those idiots in the Pentagon from dumping the most effective ground support aircraft we have for some overpriced tinker toy that can’t possibly work low and slow,

then so be it!

[Wonder Warthog]

"I bet most of the Army will be utterly blindsided to learn that the A-10 is so effective and critical."

I suspect that the Army would LOVE to take over the Warthog fleet for the close-air-support mission. The Air Force hates the WH exactly because it is "low and slow", and they see themselves as dog-fighting hotshots who fly high and fast.

[Pelham]

” I bet most of the Army will be utterly blindsided to learn that the A-10 is so effective and critical.”

Hardly. The Army knows exactly how effective the A-10 is and they’d love to have it for their own.

The Air Force has been trying to scrap it.

[dila813]

They need to buy another 200 of these beasts

[wbarmy]

An actual RAND study will do more to bolster the arguments of those Generals wanting to keep the A-10 than a thousand grunts singing their praises.

The kind of bean counters behind approving or disapproving these programs can see the value, in hard dollars, of the platform.

[Svartalfiar]

I bet most of the Army will be utterly blindsided to learn that the A-10 is so effective and critical.

Actually, if you ask people in the real Army (not the paper-pushers), they'd tell you the A-10 was their favorite plane. 98% of the time. The AC gunships are cool, and watching some jets drop 500 or 1000 lb bombs to blow stuff up is cool, but the A10 is your best, most dependable friend.