The A-10’s main mission now is airborne observation (OA-10). Kind of doing the mission of the OV-1 Mohawk and the OV-10 Bronco army aircraft from the Vietnam-era. Which is why its numbers are down from 715 airframes built to something under 280 remaining, of which about 173 have new wings.
Sure, in a permissive environment it can put a lot of lead on target. But I think the USA is going to take a breather from those sorts of wars. And if the next big war is in the Pacific the ‘Hog will not be involved at all.
My all time favorite. Bad @$$ machine.
Saw several flying yesterday at the Pima Air Museum. Awesome.
Based on a hard clad deal the AF has with the Army. Since the AF doesn’t want to spend money on a new close air support aircraft, they have to keep the A-10.
There’s no reason to spend billions on weapons of any kind when the Pentagon is run by fools, egomaniacs, commies, and traitors.
We can’t win a war against a stone age culture, we left Americans beind enemy lines... we ran out with our tails between our legs. NOT ONE OF THE ‘GENERALS’ WHO LEADED EVERY DAY TO THEIR WASHINGTON POST BUTT BOYS - EVEN BOTHERED TO ‘LEAK’ TO SAVE AFGHANISTAN.
Save the money - our ‘Generals’ get kickbacks in the form of cushy retirement jobs and they’re already living in multi million dollar mansions in DC...
Seven Generals won World War II - NONE OF ‘EM LIVED IN MANSIONS LIKE AUSTIN. Today we have almost 50 four star ‘Generals’ and they can’t win a war or bring out all their people, or blow up weapons before they’re taken by the enemy... NOT AGAINST HITLER, NOT AGAINST THE JAPANESE - OUR ‘GENERALS’ COULDN’T WIN AGAINST ONE LITTLE NOTHING BACKWARD STONE-AGE COUNTRY.
SAVE THE MONEY. THEY DON’T DESERVE OUR TAX DOLLARS.