Posted on 03/02/2015 8:39:28 AM PST by rktman
Even as the Pentagon plans for warfare on distant battlefields, it is engaged in a budget battle to retire the Air Force’s venerable A-10 Thunderbolt. But the “Warthog” has many supporters in the military and on Capitol Hill, and the fight to keep the aircraft flying continues. Here's a look.
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Can’t recall ever seeing anyone on FR disagree with that sentiment...
It’s a political football right now and they’re playing it up for all it’s worth.
Pitting one platform against the other and look who’s on the sidelines chomping at the bait...[FReepers]
The Air Force has been trying to kill the A-10 since the 80’s... Remember the failed A-16 where they took a stock F-16A, painted it in Euro 1 “lizard” camo, put an IRST from an F-106 on the nose “Falcon Eye”, and a 30mm gunpod on the centerline and called it done.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article18.html
Since it is most effective and feared....ODUNGO WANTS IT GONE
Uh, LOL! As long as you’re not the opposition that is.
saw a couple of these take off from MacDill AFB/CENTCOM last week. Made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Love ‘em.
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Call it the A-10 Warthog, so nobody confuses the name with Hillary Clinton.
And...?
Metaphorically, it’s the blue-collar Smokin’ Joe of the aviation arsenal.
She’s most often confused with the nickname for the B-52.
And why throw away that investment we just made in 2012?
amen
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