guess who wins...
1 posted on
04/27/2016 3:58:00 PM PDT by
Chode
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To: Chode
My guess would be the F-35. It could acquire the A-10 and launch radar guided air-to-air missiles from at least 50 miles away.
The 'Hog wasn't made for air superiority or straight up dog fighting.
To: Chode
The AF is getting a new Chief of Staff. I guess we will see soon.
3 posted on
04/27/2016 4:01:04 PM PDT by
Sasparilla
(Hillary for Prison 2016)
To: Chode
"The battlefield comparison “makes common sense” "
More than NOT REALLY...
Hussein retards running the show now....
4 posted on
04/27/2016 4:01:49 PM PDT by
Paladin2
(Live Free or Die.)
To: Chode
I hate the F-35. Even the designation was screwed up.
5 posted on
04/27/2016 4:02:10 PM PDT by
Shadow44
To: Chode
Maybe like a Corvette vs a Ferguson Tractor.
But we need just one winner.
Let’s see that Corvette gear down for pulling in a muddy field.
7 posted on
04/27/2016 4:10:26 PM PDT by
Scrambler Bob
(As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
To: Chode
F-35s over the Florida Panhandle.
8 posted on
04/27/2016 4:10:27 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: Chode
The deck will be stacked badly against the A-10. Bet on it!
9 posted on
04/27/2016 4:10:50 PM PDT by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Chode
The fight will be F-35 against Silkworm batteries
1500 km from the carriers.
Oh, is that beyond their range ... as planned?
10 posted on
04/27/2016 4:11:17 PM PDT by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: Chode
I remember A-10s whipping F-16’s in 2v2.
14 posted on
04/27/2016 4:17:28 PM PDT by
TomServo
To: Chode
Can the F-35 loiter and then blanket 100 square yards with 30 mm rounds in 3 seconds from 2,000 feet?
15 posted on
04/27/2016 4:17:39 PM PDT by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
To: Chode
will an F-35 make the enemy crap themselves if the see it approach?
17 posted on
04/27/2016 4:22:43 PM PDT by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
To: Chode
How about testing the metric “minutes spent right above our troops giving them immediate on-call fire support per dollar spent.”
20 posted on
04/27/2016 4:25:50 PM PDT by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Chode
The A-10 for CAS. By a lot.
The F-35 for everything else.
But IMHO the F-22 would kick the F-35’s tail in “everything else.”
24 posted on
04/27/2016 4:30:20 PM PDT by
piytar
(http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullete)
To: Chode
“guess who wins...”
Sort of like expecting a Don King boxer to lose.
To: Chode
A lot of things the A-10 can accomplish, can be done even better by an AC-130 Spectre. It is very vulnerable to anti aircraft but I have read that the A-10 is also despite all that armor.
29 posted on
04/27/2016 4:33:38 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: Chode
They were desperate to find a plane the 35 could at least outrun.
36 posted on
04/27/2016 4:48:59 PM PDT by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
To: Chode
“We will not use the F-35 in the same way as the A-10, so it will perform the mission very differently.” The F-35 will perform close air support from far away.
43 posted on
04/27/2016 5:06:43 PM PDT by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: Chode; Hulka
Pinging FR’s very own A-10 driver. What say you Hulka?
45 posted on
04/27/2016 5:08:00 PM PDT by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: Chode
“Both statements are correct. We will in fact replace the A-10s with F-35s, that is the plan,” said Frank Kendall, under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.
But Kendall said there should be no expectation that the F-35 will perform in the same way as the A-10 on the battlefield.
“The A-10 was designed to be low and slow and close to the targets it was engaging, relatively speaking,” he said. “We will not use the F-35 in the same way as the A-10, so it will perform the mission very differently.”
Firstly, shouldn't 'under secretary' be one word? And no, the F35 won't be anything close to the same thing as the A10. The F35 will have the same 'CAS' style as the f16 - it'll come in for a quick bombing run, then throw up their deuces and maybe come back half an hour later. If you're lucky. The F35 isn't designed for CAS, can't perform CAS, and should fail this comparison easily. BUT, the Chair Force loves their fast-movers, so I'm sure the 35 will get a huge handicap and have the deck stacked in it's favor. The only competition the A10 will be allowed to win (to make it seem fair!) will be loiter time. No way they can fake a F35 win on that one.
To: Chode
Pure ground support? Warthog.
49 posted on
04/27/2016 5:14:03 PM PDT by
ataDude
(Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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