[Servant of the Nine]

HOLY SHIITE! That thing FLEW? Man, talk about building tough birds. No wonder all those A-10 pilots love 'em. Whomever designed the A-10 really did a good day's work.

The A-10 is unfortunately one of the aircraft due to be replaced by the Advanced Tactical Fighter.

Revert to manual controls?
The ATF is Fly By Wire.
There are no manual controls.

One more tin foil fighter being sent to do a tankbuster's job.

So9

[El Gato]

The A-10 is unfortunately one of the aircraft due to be replaced by the Advanced Tactical Fighter. Actually by the JSF, the ATF, now known as the F-22, is basically an F-15 replacement. The JSF is to replace the F-16, F-18, AV-8 and the A-10...eventually, which could be a good long time in the case of the A-10, especially in Reserve/Guard units.

Fly by wire can be redundent too. Just as she's lucky none of the cables and such leading to the controls were shot away, a fly by wire can, and they do, have redundent paths to get the flight control "signals" to the control surfaces. They usualy use redundent actuators, as well as redundent cabling. The A-10 uses redundent hyrdolics line paths and cable paths. Most fly by wire still use hydrolics to actually operate the flying surfaces, it's just that electric servos move the "input" to the hydrolic actuators, rather than the wires and cables. The fly by wire systems do use artificial "feel" and feedback, in at least triply redundent computers.

With so many Luddites around, its amazing we have the best hardware in the world, cause if some of them had their way, we'd still be shooting bolt action Springfields and flying P-51s and P-47s.