Posted on 02/03/2016 10:51:53 AM PST by DogByte6RER
A-10 retirement delayed for six years
There is good news for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The Air Force will not retire A-10s until the year 2022.
Tuesday Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the A-10 has been such a powerful tool in the fight against ISIS that plans to retire the warplane are on hold for another six years. That's what a lot of Southern Arizona was hoping to hear. The A-10 is a huge part of the local economy.
More life for the A-10 is good news for the local economy but bad news for ISIS.
The plane is built around a huge gun meant to slice open tanks so to an A-10 almost anything else is a soft target.
Troops on the ground love the plane because it can fly low and slow enough to tell good guys from bad, and make sure bad guys have a bad day.
As a former A-10 pilot and Squadron commander Congresswoman Martha Mc Sally has been fighting to keep the A-10 in the air. She's looking past the A-10s new 2022 retirement date---just six years away.
"And I've been advocating that until we have a suitable, proven replacement to keep our troops safe that we need to keep the Warthog flying and I'm going to continue to lead that fight."
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Methinks the production line for A-10’s should be fired back up as soon as we get a non-communist/fascist in the white house. Why not pump out another several hundred of arguably the best CAS weapon in history?
I used to watch these guys do target practice.
They would not be visible until they shut off the engines and appeared out of nowhere with that BBBRRRTT and the nose would be on fire.
After it was done, they would kick the engines back on and be gone.
It was beautiful and amazing.
I can only imagine what it would be like to be a target.
We have enough air frames in long term storage we don’t need to reopen the line. Just rehab the ones we already have.
Good for her. Still don't want the damn splittails in infantry units, though.
Because it made so much sense to spend millions on rewinging the Hogs then retire them.
Why design something new when the A-10 performs its job so well?
What's their excuse for the KC-135?
Queen Putt is disappointed.
I think the Marine Corps will be glad to have a bunch of them.
Lot of military folks get out of the military and work for manufacturers. No interest in replacing refuelers
They want to reinvent the A 10 for the purpose of revenue
It’s a perfectly good airplanevwith multiple capabilities
I'm sorry to say it is the USAF brass that have been trying to kill the A-10 since before the Gulf War. Problem is its useful the F-35 still isn't...
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And the Marines.
A Close Air Support battle wagon should be dispatched by the people who know when, where, how and how much it is needed.
watched them in Tucson,,,
cool.
After it was done, they would kick the engines back on and be gone.
They do not shut down the engines to fire the gun.
..The A-10 should transfer to the Army...
The Army asked for them, and all of a sudden, the AF announced that they would keep them.
Fog great videos of A10’s making pork sausage of islamic terrorists with their 30mm Gatling gun, visit weaselzippers.
You beat me to the punch. I was just going to mention that the Ma Duece has been in service since 1933, 83 year, based on John Browning’s design of 1918.
That’s probably a world record for efficiently dealing death and destruction and still going strong.
It’s a sight to see when Davis Monthan A10s make slow practice passes over semis on Tucsons I10 outside town.
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