Awesome!
Light ‘em up!
One really does not want a warthog driver mad at them.
There is pretty much nothing that’ll withstand a full on gattling gun attack.
The Story beyond the Story, A10 primary Function is... Ground Support!
Hummm
I wonder where they will be flying from? Maybe Jordan? Too bad the Warthogs were not around when ISIS was on parade.
Scrap heap?
Heck, I want one for my birthday.
Awesome bird
As all warcraft should be...weapons systems first then propulsion and whatever accoutrements can be affixed thereafter :)
They should be building more but better :)
Oh those crony military industry lobbying generals get so pissed when there’s action and the warthog gets another well deserved reprieve
Well worth the effort to go and see them fly (glide) by
The Air Force once again tried to scrap one of the most useful close support aircraft they own because it isn’t a super sophisticated, quarter billion dollar, fly high, go fast zoomie.
When I lived in Harrisburg I used to see squadrons, yes, whole squadrons, flying in formation towards Fort Indiantown Gap.
I think they were based in Philadelphia.
Anyways I could think of nothing, absolutely nothing, I would hate seeing coming at me wishing me ill will. The only comfort would be a 30 mm gun would be so fast you wouldn’t feel it.
Nothing can survive these things on the ground.
Alternate history what if.... imagine these things on D-Day.
If the USAF brass had had their way, the close-air support of the A-4 holdover from WW2/Korea would not have been available for VietNam where it was much appreciated by the guys in the mud. The A-10 retirement is simply a repeat of history by those who’ve failed to learn from history.
the way those muslims move around packed in the back of trucks waving their rifels the a-10 should have been the first deployed.
Their cannons could have wiped out thousands on the cheap with their cannons compared to hitting them one at a time with half mllion guided bombs!!!
Trashing the A-10 just to save some money for the F-35 program is just stupid. But this is the same United States Air Force that trashed the EF-111A after it spent billions turning them into a first rate escort jammer, just to save some money to put towards the F-22 project, that also got curtailed anyway.
Bump.
The A-10 should have been assigned to the Marine Corps from the beginning.
I hadn’t heard they rescued it. It seemed like a particularly dumb idea to scrap it, because it is ugly and deadly, and built like a brick $h*thouse