Revive the A-10 Warthog, with updates and line improvements. Virtually a flying tank, its practical application in close ground support is unrivaled by anything we have now. Able to take tremendous damage and still cripple home, it can deliver a bomb load with low-level pinpoint accuracy, and with the cannon mounted in its airframe, it can blow heavy armor apart. It can fly in and out of the most rudimentary of airfields, and do so with reliability and with enough redundancies built into its systems to assure the pilot will return to fly another day.
And give it to the Marines. Use it to substitute for gunship heliocopters for Army Airborne, and make sure the Israelis also have a supply of them.
The enemy then shall not only fear us, they will tremble at the approach of these compact dreadnaughts.
The A-10 is an amazing aircraft. No wonder DOD politician wanna be’s want to kill it.
Yes give it to the Marines.