There’s nothing wrong with the plane, is there?
They can’t come up with a better design for the mission, right?
It’s just that they don’t like the mission.
It’s a single mission jet. And we are good at it. .but when you have accountant weenies running the DoD and infecting congress, you retire the single-mission jet and throw every dime at the multi-mission jet. . .like the JSF. . .even though it can’t do the CAS mission nearly as well as an A-10.
Nothing wrong w/ the plane itself but spare parts for repair are getting hard to find. The production tooling has been scrapped which means the only parts available are canabilized from planes shot up so bad they are no longer airworthy.
Regards,
GtG
PS I love the A-10, it's a flying tank!
PPS I think the Army should should be in control of it's close in air support.