[newguy357]

What can a Warthog do? First off, it doesn’t drop ordinance on my position instead of the guy I’m trying to kill.

Warthog is incapable of fratricide? Amazing.

Warthog driver can visually identify his target so that he doesn’t waste expensive guided weapons on Yugos with a phone pole through the front window that the Serbs put out as decoys and our Air Force misidentified as tanks, engaging them with guided weapons.

Irrelevant. ISR from UAVs provides eyes on target now. No need to fly a pilot in close to get shot at. You are arguing from a 10-15 year old obsolete perspective. Try to catch up.

[SevenMinusOne]

Irrelevant. ISR from UAVs provides eyes on target now. No need to fly a pilot in close to get shot at. You are arguing from a 10-15 year old obsolete perspective.

Get out of here - You think when your butt is in the sh*t you have time to wait for some slow-mover UAV to come provide eyes on the target? Your guys are dead by the time that happens (or you've lost ground and the initiative at best).

CAS is routinely called in at times of opportunity or times of unexpected risk. Waiting on some silly, straw-hole seeing UAV is an absurd notion.

Eyes in the sky, UAVs have without question a needed role and have helped tremendously. But suggesting they are to be used in the emergency role of CAS for us to put bombs on targets is just foolish.