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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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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?
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posted on
02/03/2016 11:06:38 AM PST
by
EnigmaticAnomaly
("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
To: DogByte6RER
Bravo for Arizona's Congresswoman Martha McSally!
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posted on
02/03/2016 11:07:07 AM PST
by
yoe
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.
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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.)
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.
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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.)
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.
To: DogByte6RER
Because it made so much sense to spend millions on rewinging the Hogs then retire them.
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posted on
02/03/2016 11:08:51 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Little Ray
Why design something new when the A-10 performs its job so well?
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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.)
To: MrB
Even a lot of military folks despise the A-10 because “it’s oldâ€.What's their excuse for the KC-135?
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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?)
To: DogByte6RER
Goat humping, Allah FUBAR screaming Sand Uyghurs everywhere are crapping their pants at this news...
Queen Putt is disappointed.
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posted on
02/03/2016 11:09:51 AM PST
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: DogByte6RER
I think the Marine Corps will be glad to have a bunch of them.
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posted on
02/03/2016 11:11:10 AM PST
by
TYVets
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
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posted on
02/03/2016 11:12:59 AM PST
by
stanne
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...
To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
02/03/2016 11:13:45 AM PST
by
stanne
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.
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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.)
To: Only1choice____Freedom
watched them in Tucson,,,
cool.
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posted on
02/03/2016 11:13:55 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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.
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.
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.
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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)
To: laplata
Somebody finally pulled his head out of his nether regions!
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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)
To: Sasparilla
It’s a sight to see when Davis Monthan A10s make slow practice passes over semis on Tucsons I10 outside town.
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