Replace the A10 with an untested aircraft that will be in dev till 2018.... What could go wrong?
The F35 can’t survive even a 1/4 of the damage the A10 has routinely suffered during close air support missions. Who could forget the famous photos from gulf war one of A10’s shot to pieces with literally chunks of metal hanging off. The F35 is a product of greed and corruption in an industry with little accountability and oversight. When it fails, we will see a bunch of hearings full of twatwaffle congress pukes feigning anger and disgust while lining their pockets with industry handouts. Our servicemen and women will die all for some suit wearing douchebag to afford a new home with an ocean view.
Were the A-7s destroyed or are they at Davis-Monthan?
In the armor museum at Fort Irwin California, the National Training Center, are several former Iraqi/Warsaw Pact tanks that had been lit up by the Warthog.
I could almost put my hand through the holes they left in the top of the turret and we are talking about three inches of steel cut through like hot knife through butter.