All of the equipment and tooling used for construction of the A10 is also destroyed.
We have no wisdom.
I saw a couple of those in the air while working east of Nellis AFB. Impressive aircraft, incredibly nimble in the sky. My first thought was “I’m sure glad they aren’t hunting me!”
Just the fact that our enemies fear the plane so much is more than enough reason to keep it.
loved the ravens logo on the a-10 in the video...
loved the flight simulator game a-10 tank killer...
hate the fact they are scrapping this friend of infantry.
i hope it is because we are arming grunts with laser weaponry.
but i doubt it.
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Much of the higher up brass dislike the warthog due to it not being, in their eyes, as “sexy” as an F15 or F16.
The previous “retirement” of the A10 and attempt to replace it with the F16 was reasoned this way: A10 is designed to survive hits, F16 is designed to avoid them.
Anyone with a brain can see the obvious problems with this as the F16 isn’t designed to survive a ground CAS environment.
Neither is the F35...
Sooooo, the same idiocy, repeated twenty years on.
Simply my favorite airplane since WWII.
We were stopping for fuel on our way to Cabo at some airport in California (IIRC) in my sister’s Citation and the field was an A-10 base. they were doing takeoffs and landings in pairs. It was a real treat.
I hear that at night, from the pilot’s perspective, firing that gatling gun is like firing a laser.
There’s another interview with this designer available on the net...not much different.
It’s hard to argue with literally any aspect of the realization of the design objectives of this airplane....unless your goal is to produce a dozens-of-millions-of-dollars-per-copy edifice of complexity. This inexpensive, 40-year-old plane turned out exactly how they wanted it and it achieved (AFAIK) every design objective, absolutely beautiful in its ugliness and ruthless in its effectiveness. We should be building them or an upgraded equivalent today.
There is no other jet in the U.S. inventory that can do close air support like the A-10. To compare the F-35 JSF to an A-10 is utter nonsense. The F-35 is totally unsuited for the CAS mission and would become a big, expensive, smoking hole in the ground if it tried to do CAS.
The A-10 embodies the American spirit in the form of a “can of whoopass”. Need I say more?
But we's gots da fud stamps!
A-10 vs. ground support helicopter?
In 2003, the assets of Fairchild were purchased by M7 Aerospace and the new company was relocated to San Antonio.
On December 15, 2010, M7 was purchased by the United States subsidiary of the Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems.
Anyone remember during Desert Storm, the black BG who was Schwartzkopf's press briefing officer? What was his name, and where'd his career go afterwards..
As a Corporal in the 2nd Marine Division during the First Gulf War, I got to see these babies up close and personal!
Too DAMN personal on one occasion as we were incorrectly marked for target; they were tearing up the ground walking onto target when they finally pulled up! WHEW!!! More than one pair of shorts needed to be changed on that day!!
But, watching these aircraft chew up one line and down another with deadly precision, is enough to make a grown ass Marine cry tears of joy!!
The AF never liked or wanted the A-10, which was designed by the Army, but forced upon the AF.
Every time they show clips of those ISIS technicals, I think what an A-10 could accomplish.
I’d like to remind the big brass F-35 pushers how well the Me262 worked as a bomber. Warbirds are not a one size fits all proposition.
In this country we have a love of all things high tech especially in military aviation. We are convinced that adding every conceivable gadget, bell and whistle makes things superior, but overlook that sometimes simpler technology can do the job better, more reliably and for less cost. There is a story, while not true, that NASA spent millions developing a ball point pen to write in zero G while the Russians used a pencil. It is easy to believe that story given our history of doing just that.
Follow the money...and the acquisition announcements.
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