Posted on 09/01/2018 4:08:30 PM PDT by huldah1776
And what you are describing hasn’t got squat to do with the kind of wars the Army has been fighting since Korea, the kind that require CAS.
CAS prevents infantry from being overrun and decimated by opposing ground forces. That’s every war we have been fighting for decades. Infantry types tend to consider anyone who can destroy them as “a REAL adversary” worthy of taking seriously.
I don’t know why you think giving CAS aircraft to the Army would harm the Air Force in any fashion. The enemy can already “vector into” the Army’s CAS helicopters if they feel like it. Warthogs are just a whole better than helicopters in a lot of situations, and the Army should be in control of them.
I liked reading that the 30mm gunpod for the A-16 / F/A-16 torqued sideways upon firing and limited accuracy.
Didn’t they learned that with the 20mm gunpod on the F-4 phantom back during Vietnam?
found a request from Gov in 2011 for creation of new tooling from blueprints. Interesting site.
AF
A-10 CAD/CAM Model
Solicitation Number: FA8202-11-R-1008
Agency: Department of the Air Force
Office: Air Force Materiel Command
Location: AFLCMC / AFSC / AFNWC - HILL AFB
Amen to that!
Love me some Warthogs.
Not really. Here’s one time McCain had it right;
https://youtu.be/N1vWRX1fx04
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