Perhaps they can start a military surplus program to benefit local Tea Party groups...
Instead of scrapping the A-10 Warthog the Air Force should update the design, add night vision, and build more, many more. There has never been a combat support aircraft that equals the A-10.
Instead of scrapping the A-10 Warthog the Air Force should update the design, add night vision, and build more, many more. There has never been a combat support aircraft that equals the A-10.
The A10 is cheap and effective. The government needs a defective replacement that will cost a billion dollars per copy.
Thanks for posting this. I didn’t know this great plane had been given a reprieve. Glad to see it still protecting our troops.
There is another 300 guys heading over. Hope someone’s keeping an accurate count.
America should know the count before Election Day
A jet built around a machine-gun. A beautiful creation if man ever made one!
If you look up “can of woop ass” in the dictionary. . You see a picture of an A10.. that gun just does the “nasty” to ground targets...
if you have a ground force with no air cover. . And you sent mix of A10 and AC130!#?
The A-10 should have been called to arms when the caravans were headed south. This community organizer is late to the party and many people have been murdered because of his inaction. Like I posted earlier, the only reason for the strikes was a threat to the white house. Michelle probably got pissed and told him to get off his butt because her new clothes were targeted.
Probably just as well if the government has scrapped the A-10’s before SHTF.
Isis is in a world of hurt!
Anyone wanting to scrap A-10s should be placed in a fully armed combat tank and told to try to stop the plane that is shooting 30mm rounds at him before the tank explodes.
The USAF has outlived its usefulness, and then some.
The way the headline reads I thought they pulled a Warthog off the scrap heap queue and sent it into combat!
Curious... “The Pentagon will send a dozen A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft and up to 300 airmen to the Middle East in early October, to help in the conflict against the Islamic State group, the Indiana National Guard said. “
Will they be flown all the way from Indiana to the ME or do they get them there by ship?
The Air Staff must be shit@@@@ bricks, again.
A little history is in order.
In the late 1980’s the Air Staff was directed to use the A-10 funding line to help start funding the F-22 program. Then DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM erupted on the world stage. Things got very interesting in August 1990 as the serving AF/CC, General Michael J. Dugan, tried to push the F-16C as the only ground attack aircraft available to support Gen Norman Schwarzkopf’s efforts; Gen Schwarzkopf wanted A-10s. Gen Dugan was relieved of duty about a month later serving on 78 days as AF/CC. That was the shortest tour of duty as AF/CC by a wide margin.
A decade later, the AF Staff tried again this time to fund the F-35 program. Then September 11, 2001 happened.
The 13 years, the Air Staff tried again - any need to repeat today’s headlines?
Bottom line - like it or not, the A-10’s Statement of Work lead to the development of the world’s premier ground attack jet. And, until the AF develops a replacement with the same abilities, the Air Staff is going to be repeatedly frustrated as they push light fighters as a suitable substitute.