Enjoy!
If we can scare up some wings, what’s keeping us from a complete assembly line with platform upgrades? These planes aren’t much more complex than a Subaru.
I still recall some air Force talking weiner back twenty or more years ago stating that they would replace the Warthog with the f-16 because “the Warthog was designed to take hits, the fighting falcon was designed to avoid them!”
Wish I could find that specific article, I tried.
It struck me back then as being short sighted and wrong headed on CAS.
The airforce seems to, like a drunken belligerent, keep returning to that idea as if this time it will work.
Would be a shame to get rid of the Warthogs after keeping the Buffs around for so long.
Perhaps there is a need coming up for CAS.
Look! I will make this so simple, even a democRAT can understand it. The A-10 is STILL considered the best fighter of its class in the world. I am Retired Army, and went through Nam and Desert Storm (Yes, I’m that old) and seen the A-10 in action. We called it the flying fart killer and believe me. When you heard it fire that autocannon, you watched the destruction it caused and realized that the aircraft was (and still is) the best. Yes, it’s old, but it’s still the best at what it does and I applaud the Air Force for their actions.