Biggest problem with putting the A-10 back into production; Most if not all the jigs have been scrapped, and the workers who built them have been doing something else for the last 25 (?) years.
Still probably worth doing the estimate for building another 100+ even if the new E model would be able to only have a few parts in common with older models. (Can the marines get one with folding wings and a tailhook painted marine blue?)
Now days with the advance in 3-D printers I would say the jigs shouldn’t be a problem.
OV-10’s could fly off and “land” on CV’s
No tail hook needed it looks like. These was just tests.
..Biggest problem with putting the A-10 back into production; Most if not all the jigs have been scrapped, and the workers who built them have been doing something else for the last 25 years...
You can say the same for the mighty Saturn 5 rocket. But, most of the engineers who put it together are long gone. Then, there’s the Obama problem for both.