That ISIS convoy would look like the road to Basra.
Enjoy!
source from source (longer & more info)
https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2018/01/25/air-force-searching-new-company-re-wing-10s.html
video with info, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpaC5Wvx6d4
Excellent.
It seemed like a stupid decision to eliminate those planes in the first place. They are very good planes for the right missions.
Those “aging A-10 Warthogs” are what the US Army needs for close air support. I don’t believe our broken procurement process is capably of buying anything that can replace them with the same level of effectiveness, let alone with something better.
So, the Air Force is just winging it? They’re going to fly these planes on a wing and a prayer?
Will there be any bias towards the right wing or the left wing?
Go, A-10! Wart Hogs forever!
It will be easier keeping the A-10 flying now McCain is gone. He was a big proponent for retiring them.
CC
Warthogs. Winning.
We should replace them with aerial hunter killers armed with lasers and plasma cannons, in addition to VTOL capability.
Great news. The A-10 is an excellent ground support attack platform and the pilots who fly them are red meat eaters. They absolutely love their mission.
Sadly we are so risk adverse and programs move like molasses. Their are newer airfoils ( high lift, low drag, low pitching moment is not out of the question tailored for this aircraft specifically, the current airfoil IMMIC has a G-d awful pitching moment ) , wingtips (1/4 ellipse for example ) DogTooths, VG’s etc etc that could add some performance on the top and bottom end, however they will not be designed to be incorporated on this buy, it is a blessing to get the buy alone. Sadly this would be the time to take it to the next level, but the days of things moving fast, aka P-51 designed and flying in 100 days, or Lockheed getting-er-done fast in the dark world won’t be applied here...
>>>Now, the Air Force has committed to buying more wings. According to DoDBuzz General Mike Holmes, the head of the Air Force’s Air Combat Command<<<
I’ll bet they will MAKE IT RIGHT!
“...That left at least 110 A-10s high and dry without new wings, a state that threatened to ground them for good unless a solution was found, reducing the number of A-10 squadrons from nine to six. The Air Force, focused on getting the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter up and running, didn’t include a new wing contract it its 2018 budget......”
The F-35 versions worry me. The services are in super deep into this program and I am not convinced it will work. The A-10 works.
That ISIS convoy would look like the road to Basra.
God love the Warthog.
Re-wing Hell, restart the production like and get us a couple thousands of these cheap, sturdy warhorses....hogs.
The wings of the Warthog can take enormous stress.
In the tests they almost could not break them.
Aerobatic X100
The A10 was known to be a very tough aircraft. A relative who worked in aerospace told me that an A10 returned from a mission with one engine blown off. The pilot kind of sits in an IRON TUB to protect, according to the same source. By comparison, helicopters are much more fragile -- but they try to make helicopters survivable...
Ping!
I understand all the tooling to make the A-10 were destroyed.
Given the technology today how difficult would it be to reverse engineer the plane and build a new fleet?
Courtesy *PING* to you-know-who.