According to the article, it can fly slower and faster than the A10. Also has a 5 hour loiter time.
That article is about investments and NOT aircraft, I’ve read through the entire thing three times now and there isn’t a single word anywhere that could even charitably be described as a Performance Specification.
Just from eyeballing the pictures, I doubt that pretty little thing could be equipped with a tailhook (which rates it a FAIL for Naval Air/Marine Tactical Air) and/or sufficient effective armament at ANY speed or Time Over Target to be as significant to the people it’s supposed to protect as a dose of clap.
...and please don’t insult anyone’s intelligence with this Smart Weapons line of bilge. Especially after the time “some of us” got to devote to retraining people and reconfiguring aircraft that got sent into air-to-air combat without those unsexy, cludgy old guns. (Sorry, it still pi$$es me off so bad I could spit.)
Screw these financial clowns and all their political friends. Not only keep the ‘Hog, but build some more so they can go play with Marines when required.
I call BS on the whole deal.
Its a bizjet with a bubble canopy. Seriously.
And those specs are probably lean and clean like you see in the photos. Load her up with armor as well as other reinforcements and you will end up with a plane that can loiter for 45 minutes and carry two 250 pounders.