So you are going to use a tons of millions of dollar F35 for ground support missions instead of the combat-proven, heavily armored Warthog which costs a fraction of the F35?
We only have a few F35s and at their price somewhere over $500 Million (according to some figures I’ve seen - need more cost info here), losing just 2 could cost almost a Billion dollars to replace.
A SMART Air Force has three types of aircraft, fighter to fighter, fighter to ground and ground attack only
Under Obama, the world “SMART” has been obliterated from our military planning and leaders.
“...A SMART Air Force has three types of aircraft, fighter to fighter, fighter to ground and ground attack only
Under Obama, the world “SMART” has been obliterated from our military planning and leaders.”
MM is behind the times.
Under the leadership [sic] of the fighter pilotry, USAF has been busily turning itself into that three-airframe handmaiden of the backward-gazing, lumpen-traditionalist US Army that MM so worships, since 1992. The rest of USAF candidly derides the Langley Mafia as the overbearing egomaniac nitwits who don’t know their own job, and can’t follow their own rules.
Any modern military that restricts air power to the two-dimensional linear battlefield envisioned by Hudson High grads will eventually lose. Ideas that sprang from the minds of William Mitchell, Giulio Douhet, Hugh Trenchard, and Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin have yet to be tried.