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A-10 Warthog Retirement Delayed for Six Years
KGUN9 ^ | February 2, 2016 | KGUN9

Posted on 02/03/2016 10:51:53 AM PST by DogByte6RER

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A-10 retirement delayed for six years

There is good news for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The Air Force will not retire A-10s until the year 2022.

Tuesday Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the A-10 has been such a powerful tool in the fight against ISIS that plans to retire the warplane are on hold for another six years. That's what a lot of Southern Arizona was hoping to hear. The A-10 is a huge part of the local economy.

More life for the A-10 is good news for the local economy but bad news for ISIS.

The plane is built around a huge gun meant to slice open tanks so to an A-10 almost anything else is a soft target.

Troops on the ground love the plane because it can fly low and slow enough to tell good guys from bad, and make sure bad guys have a bad day.

As a former A-10 pilot and Squadron commander Congresswoman Martha Mc Sally has been fighting to keep the A-10 in the air. She's looking past the A-10s new 2022 retirement date---just six years away.

"And I've been advocating that until we have a suitable, proven replacement to keep our troops safe that we need to keep the Warthog flying and I'm going to continue to lead that fight."

(Excerpt) Read more at kgun9.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: a10; military; usaf; warthog
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To: Flick Lives

Methinks the production line for A-10’s should be fired back up as soon as we get a non-communist/fascist in the white house. Why not pump out another several hundred of arguably the best CAS weapon in history?


21 posted on 02/03/2016 11:06:38 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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To: DogByte6RER
Bravo for Arizona's Congresswoman Martha McSally!
22 posted on 02/03/2016 11:07:07 AM PST by yoe
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To: Lazamataz

I used to watch these guys do target practice.

They would not be visible until they shut off the engines and appeared out of nowhere with that BBBRRRTT and the nose would be on fire.

After it was done, they would kick the engines back on and be gone.

It was beautiful and amazing.
I can only imagine what it would be like to be a target.


23 posted on 02/03/2016 11:07:50 AM PST by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

We have enough air frames in long term storage we don’t need to reopen the line. Just rehab the ones we already have.


24 posted on 02/03/2016 11:08:15 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DogByte6RER
Just noticed that the Congresscritter who has been fighting to keep it alive is not only a former A-10 pilot, but a female.

Good for her. Still don't want the damn splittails in infantry units, though.

25 posted on 02/03/2016 11:08:40 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: DogByte6RER

Because it made so much sense to spend millions on rewinging the Hogs then retire them.


26 posted on 02/03/2016 11:08:51 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Little Ray

Why design something new when the A-10 performs its job so well?


27 posted on 02/03/2016 11:08:52 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: MrB
Even a lot of military folks despise the A-10 because “it’s old”.

What's their excuse for the KC-135?

28 posted on 02/03/2016 11:09:11 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Why do we give our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast?)
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To: DogByte6RER
Goat humping, Allah FUBAR screaming Sand Uyghurs everywhere are crapping their pants at this news...

Queen Putt is disappointed.

29 posted on 02/03/2016 11:09:51 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: DogByte6RER

I think the Marine Corps will be glad to have a bunch of them.


30 posted on 02/03/2016 11:11:10 AM PST by TYVets
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Lot of military folks get out of the military and work for manufacturers. No interest in replacing refuelers

They want to reinvent the A 10 for the purpose of revenue

It’s a perfectly good airplanevwith multiple capabilities


31 posted on 02/03/2016 11:12:59 AM PST by stanne
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To: Mr. K
why on earth would Obama want to retuire the single most useful plane against the muslim slime? Oh wait...

I'm sorry to say it is the USAF brass that have been trying to kill the A-10 since before the Gulf War. Problem is its useful the F-35 still isn't...

32 posted on 02/03/2016 11:13:34 AM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: Blood of Tyrants

$$


33 posted on 02/03/2016 11:13:45 AM PST by stanne
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To: laplata
The A-10 should transfer to the Army.

And the Marines.

A Close Air Support battle wagon should be dispatched by the people who know when, where, how and how much it is needed.

34 posted on 02/03/2016 11:13:49 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom

watched them in Tucson,,,

cool.


35 posted on 02/03/2016 11:13:55 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
They would not be visible until they shut off the engines and appeared out of nowhere with that BBBRRRTT and the nose would be on fire.

After it was done, they would kick the engines back on and be gone.

They do not shut down the engines to fire the gun.

36 posted on 02/03/2016 11:15:45 AM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: laplata

..The A-10 should transfer to the Army...

The Army asked for them, and all of a sudden, the AF announced that they would keep them.

Fog great videos of A10’s making pork sausage of islamic terrorists with their 30mm Gatling gun, visit weaselzippers.


37 posted on 02/03/2016 11:16:26 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

You beat me to the punch. I was just going to mention that the Ma Duece has been in service since 1933, 83 year, based on John Browning’s design of 1918.

That’s probably a world record for efficiently dealing death and destruction and still going strong.


38 posted on 02/03/2016 11:17:35 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: laplata
Somebody finally pulled his head out of his nether regions!


39 posted on 02/03/2016 11:17:53 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Sasparilla

It’s a sight to see when Davis Monthan A10s make slow practice passes over semis on Tucsons I10 outside town.


40 posted on 02/03/2016 11:20:26 AM PST by Sasparilla
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