... so why did they need this half-billion dollar weapons platform to drop a couple JDAMS when it could have been done with a far cheaper A-10?
“... so why did they need this half-billion dollar weapons platform to drop a couple JDAMS when it could have been done with a far cheaper A-10?”
Radar. We didn’t want the occupants in that cave to know we were coming. Enemy radar could alert the occupants and they move somewhere else. Whenever possible, use stealth.
Exactly...the Taliban posses no serious AS threat so why use a billion dollar stealth plane to drop a couple of bombs. Certainly we have less costly aircraft that could do this job.