Posted on 08/15/2015 8:51:46 AM PDT by blam
If so, bad news for Mariupol.
With the exception of my seaplane rating. For that you just follow the rivers at 2000' AGL.
A-10's will go nowhere near Islam. They work too well and kill too many of those wanting to kill others.
Obama rolls Islam first.
A-10’s without F-18’s and F-22’s to support them are in big trouble. IMHO, Obama will send them to Eastern Russia to blow them out of the sky, depleting the inventory, so Islam is a safer place to kill Christians, Jews, and little girls.
“The Devil’s Cross.”
you’re not just singing in the dead of night, my friend.
“They aint sexy, unless you are ground pounder. “
The Warthog is a ground pounders best friend!!!!!
It’s really simple: USAF jet jockeys don’t like to fly low or slow, and they love their bells and whistles. The A-10 is the antithesis of their multi-billion videogame-on-steroids planes reserved for a select few.
There are plenty of Flyboys who want to keep them, nay, increase their numbers and keep enhancing the airframe with newer components.
It is, after all, a bunch of AIR FORCE people who fly them and maintain them. Ask them, they love them!
It’s just the brass are politicians—or soon-to-bees, and the politicians are beholden to the lobbyists, and the lobbyist have the money to push them to the F-35.
They have to pay to play, and once you make General, you’re close to retirement and that high-priced executive job at a defense supplier...
But do not assume that everyone in the USAF hates the A-10. Too many are cowards to oppose the high-ranking haters, though.
So, who is flying those A-10s? Marines, Soldiers, Sailors?
Do those who fly A-10s like them or hate their jobs?
If we want to deter Russian aggression, we need to restart the production lines for A-10s and F-22s. End the F-35 program.
Build more ballistic missiles and missile subs and send weapons to the Ukrainians.
I am willing to "foster" one at my place.
We really need to either refurbish a whole bunch of A-10s or build a whole bunch of them from the updated plans. This is the best airplane in the world for its mission, and it would be a shame to trade that capability for overpriced multi-mission stealth aircraft that don’t do any one thing well.
The (A-10) Hawg pilots love them—but they are not in the fighter club. The brass prefers to spend billions on gee-wiz wonder weapons.
If this noob flew in combat I would want to fly this.
We’ll need the A-10 if they figure out how to make the railgun smaller, won’t we?
Ya sure they need 12? Isn’t that overkill.
I think your pic was the work of four total and they were taking long coffee breaks.
I believe the term is “fighter mafia.” The fighter jocks look down upon pilots of all other types, except maybe SR-71 guys.
All kidding aside, this demented administration is probably sending them into (what they think to be) an ambush so they can scratch off 12 more of the most effective CAS platform ever known.
May God watch over them and their support crews as they journey into the belly of the beast on our behalf and may He watch-over, guide and protect all of those US military in harms way.
You are correct, good sir!
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