[DemforBush]

Darn good plane. And I don't care what anyone else says, I think it's a beautiful design.

[InsidiousMongo]

The A-10 eats the budget? Give me a break. What are they going to replace it with, the F-35 just like people were suggesting before? Apples and Oranges.

Cutting the Warthog is a HUGE mistake. No plane built today is as tough and can fly low and slow like the A-10, while still returning from a mission.

[SVTCobra03]

Allow the Army to have fixed wing aircraft and give it to them. Grunts love the Warthog.

[Theoria]

A trusty aircraft. We will need more like it against the Cylon.

[Sir Napsalot]

Because the military brass don’t see the need for future troops ground support?

A-10 did the heavy lifting, a reliable vehicle for the purpose it was designed for.

[GreyFriar]

Warthog bye-bye ping

[ought-six]

The A-10 is a great airplane! What the hell is this government thinking?

Oh, that’s right: Our present government dislikes the United States, and desires to see it harmed.

[arderkrag]

"This is a plane for large land combat engagements and for the foreseeable future, you probably won't face too many of those and there's also the budget pressure."

And there's the rub. It's a changing world, and you won't see huge mass battles like you used to. That's why our soldiers are being trained in localized urban environments - because terrorists aren't found inside fortified military bases. They're found in sleeper cells or metropolitan hubs.



(Of course, the tinfoil hatters around here are convinced it's all a vicious plot to push us to an authoritarian dystopia, but that's another story.)

[fso301]

The A-10 was declared obsolete before the end of the cold war.

The A-10 was declared obsolete after Desert Storm.

The A-10 is once again being declared obsolete.

[jwalsh07]

Its got to go because it instills terror in the terrorists and glee in the US infantryman. These two facts are not coincident with Obamas ROE.

[Darksheare]

The last time they did this, it literally was “sniffle, the plane just isn’t pretty enough. Sniffle”
The brass went on to extoll...the F-16 as a “superior” aircraft for ground support.
“The Falcon is designed to avoid hits” was the smug claim at the time.

[hadaclueonce]

Muslims hate the A10.

Next question?

[RetiredArmy]

Danged thing shot up the so called great Republican Guard like a turkey shoot. Worth its worth in the gulf war.

[real saxophonist]

Girl and I were driving from Statesboro to Jekyll Island once, and I saw an A-10. Pointed it out to her, she said, 'Oh, that's neat looking.'

I explained to her what they were, what they did and that they usually work in pairs, when the second one flew over.

They were probably out of Moody.

[central_va]

Nothing shows how much you care like a 30mm round. Or 800 hundred of them.

[Mastador1]

“Long disliked by the US Air Force, the A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jet may finally be heading for the chopping”

Maybe disliked by the bean counters, but loved by the pilots and I don’t know of a word strong enough to describe the emotion felt by the soldiers whose butts were saved by this awesome aircraft. What do they possibly have in the works to take its place in low flight ground support that will take a lickin and keep on tickin like the Wharthog?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let's replace it with something that costs a thousand times as much and is one percent as good.

Just like Obamacare.

[Blue Collar Christian]

It’s a funding stunt. Take the A-10 out of service, get some expensive fighters trounced and a bunch of our brave young killed, and then there’s proof the military needs the funding to develop a new plane that has the same capabilities as the then dismissed A-10. Feed that machine!

[Scrambler Bob]

Will the local SWAT be getting them?

Got to get home safe, you know.

[Yo-Yo]

Just like when the USAF dumped the EF-111A in order to pay for the F-22A.

[JSteff]

Does anyone remember that the AF wanted to cancel it just a few years after it was put in service. They wanted to replace it with F16's. That would have been before our forays against Iraq, in fact it would have been well before 9/11!

Greedy planners wanted their high speed toys.