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To: Yosemitest

Congress has cut the funding of the Air Force to the point where they can deploy aircraft maintenance crews for the A-10 squadrons or a comparable number of F-16 squadrons. The F-16 squadrons can fight for air superiority against Russian, Chinese, and comparable enemy air superiority fighters and perform a less capable CAS mission; whereas the A-10 is superior at performing the CAS mission but cannot fulfill the same air superiority role as the F-16. Do you really want to cut the number of air superiority squadrons below their already inadequate numbers? Wouldn’t it be better to fund enough combat air support squadrons to maintain deployments of the A-10 and F-16 squadrons at the same time?


40 posted on 03/20/2015 8:01:33 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX
The F-16 is NOT a tank killer and Russian has deployed TANKS along that line/
The F-15 and F-14 is much better that the F-16.
The F-22 is much better than the F-16
They don't call the F-16 a LAWN DART for nothing!
26+ years of Air Traffic Control in the USAF has taught me the A-10 Warthog is an outstanding aircraft!
49 posted on 03/20/2015 8:18:13 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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53 posted on 03/20/2015 8:24:28 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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