The A-10 still has its place, just like the B-52. Good for the GAO but since when does Team Odungo care what the experts tell them?
IOW, the A-10 kills the enemy too well and saves Christians in a time where pretzel logic prevails.
I can’t believe they ever built it in the first place and I can’t believe it survived this long. Someone way, way above my paygrade must be watching over this remarkable airplane that saves the lives of groundpounders.
Cost of 1 F 35 = Savings of 100 A 10
There you have it.
AF still considers ground support as its low priority step child.
Active Duty ping.
The F35 fiasco continues to suck the life out of everything around it.
whoa. actual good news. amazing
Keep the A-10. Cut the F-35.
Problem solved.
Thank goodness. Those planes would be very effective to wipe out the remnant population of white men.
I wouldn’t mind seeing one strafe Capitol Hill.
One F15 or F16 downed while conducting low=level ground support ops will wipe out any savings gained from shelving the flying tanks of the A10’s.
This AF leader is crazy as crap and should be stripped of a star and kicked out of the service.
Oh, sorry, Hap, you’re not in charge anymore, nor is your spirit.
What I took away from the article: Obama wants to kill the A-10 because it’s too effective.
A-10 is the perfect aircraft for its mission. To this day it is the CAS platform of choice and nothing else comes close.
MANY real officers in the Air Force not willing to toe the line of the current disgusting Administration have been forced to retire or moved to lesser positions.
A lot of the folks now in charge are more politician in a military uniform than Warrior.
I know this is the case in the Air Force. I’m sure it is also the case in our other branches.
The folks wanting to get rid of that great aircraft either know something I don’t, or they are doing as they have been told from up above the chain.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh has told Congress the A-10 is not flexible enough and the service can depend on a mix of other aircraft like the B-1, F-16 and F-15 to fulfill the close air support mission.
A B-1 for CAS? Is he insane? The B-1 base designed as a supersonic strategic bomber. That’s the polar opposite of what is needed for CAS. Somewhere, somehow, lobbyists for the big aircraft manufacturers are pushing the F35. Ground support be damned.
Just give the A-10 and the Air Force CAS role to the Army. The USMC would be glad for a few also.
Or buy the Scaled/Rutan “Ares”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9LlHcX8lg
Turbofan Killer Bee: Rutan ARES “Mudfighter” for U.S. Army Close Air Support
Just give it to the Army! Or rather, the Army should just take it. Just fly them to and park them at Fort Campbell and the 160th will figure out what to do with them in no time.
The 30,000-pound bomb that could be used against Iran’s nuclear facilities ‘boggles the mind’
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-30000-pound-bomb-that-could-be-used-against-irans-nuclear-facilities-boggles-the-mind-2015-6
Then. congress should stop the Sequester and its punishment of the military. This is now a deadly game: congress pretends it cares about national security while they cut the muscle and bone of the military budget, year after year. Meanwhile, the Trillions spent on Gibsaway Programs to the Takers increases every year
Gots to keep them budgets high?
Gots to keep getting the newest latest gadget even if it isn’t capeable of doing a better job.
A-10 is the tank killer.
Keep it.