Posted on 08/01/2016 5:27:12 PM PDT by Mariner
The A-10 can fly underneath the radar if it has to.
...and we have to let our enemies know this.
Truly, Bismarck was right: “God protects fools, drunks and the United States.”
$300 on the A-10s and F-22s.
Being former 11B theA10 is a sure bet, and the F-222 has a big advantage over the F-35 in Air-superiority.
The F35 is a fine aircraft. However in Iraq my son's best friend was an A-10 or Apache. As an infantry man they knew if it all went to Sh-t, those boys could bring in close and accurate support from the air.
The only problem with the A-10 is it does not have United States Army painted on it!
The F35 can not do what an A-10 can nor can an A-10 do what an F35 can. They both have different missions and different capabilities. We need both.
I see them fly every week and I have never seen a weapons bay open.
I don't think there has ever been a conflict where our fighter pilots have been given total freedom to acquire and shoot BVR. If you know of one, please correct me, but show your source.
If the USAF is limited to shooting within visual range, an awful lot of the F-35's advantage just goes away.
It’s an attack bird and I think it’ll be fine in it’s defined role.
Yes; after all the F-35 is being labeled as a "do everything [better]" airframe.
So how about a competition between the F-22, A-10, and the F-35, where the mission is deep strike against a heavily defended target that requires 2,000 pound class weapons for destruction?
The F-22 and A-10 don't make any pretenses to being for that sort of mission, they're for air-superiority and close-air-support, respectively.
So the F-35 has to do its mission and every other platform’s mission for you to be satisfied? Did you spend the last 30 years bashing on the F-16, as well?
That's what we're being sold, so yes.
I wouldn't be quite as hard on it if they were honest, but everything about it seems wrongheaded -- from the claims that it can do CAS well enough to replace the A-10, that it can do just as good at air-superiority as the F-22, to the shenanigans about its readiness for combat (it was just last month that they actually fired the gun; from a stand and not airborne though), the language for the SW was also a bad choice (C++ is not very good for ensuring low-defect code).
Did you spend the last 30 years bashing on the F-16, as well?
While versatile, the F-16 wasn't ever billed as it can do everything, and better than anything
like the F-35 is.
I call BS!
Lol. Maybe you missed the whole fighter mafia era.
“One would have to have and keep visual engagement with one of these to take it down, and then you’d have to use cannon. “
Exactly what happened in Vietnam.
Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it...arrogance is not a virtue.
That's probably true... I'm not qualified to be President by reason of age.
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