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End looms for US Air Force's 'Warthog' ground-attack jet
AFP ^
| 12/12/13
| Mathieu Rabechault
Posted on 12/12/2013 3:48:56 PM PST by DemforBush
Washington (AFP) - Long disliked by the US Air Force, the A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jet may finally be heading for the chopping block due to budget constraints...
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: a10; aerospace; airforce; bhodod; budgetcuts; cas; defensespending; usaf; warthog
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Darn good plane. And I don't care what anyone else says, I think it's a beautiful design.
The A-10 eats the budget? Give me a break. What are they going to replace it with, the F-35 just like people were suggesting before? Apples and Oranges.
Cutting the Warthog is a HUGE mistake. No plane built today is as tough and can fly low and slow like the A-10, while still returning from a mission.
To: InsidiousMongo
Reminds me of that female warthog pilot in Iraq. Came back with amazing damage.
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:53:03 PM PST
by
Frapster
(frak)
To: DemforBush
Allow the Army to have fixed wing aircraft and give it to them. Grunts love the Warthog.
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:53:53 PM PST
by
SVTCobra03
(You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
To: InsidiousMongo
Big mistake, in my opinion.
Insanity in fact.
Grunts are going to pay with their lives for this.
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:54:17 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: DemforBush
A trusty aircraft. We will need more like it against the Cylon.
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:54:37 PM PST
by
Theoria
(Obama lied. My health care died.)
To: InsidiousMongo
The only one’s who disliked this plane were on the other end of those Gatling gun cannons. I don't believe the air force disliked this plane.
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:54:55 PM PST
by
spawn44
(MOO)
To: DemforBush
Because the military brass don’t see the need for future troops ground support?
A-10 did the heavy lifting, a reliable vehicle for the purpose it was designed for.
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:55:30 PM PST
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: zot
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:55:42 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: DemforBush
The A-10 is a great airplane! What the hell is this government thinking?
Oh, that’s right: Our present government dislikes the United States, and desires to see it harmed.
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:56:48 PM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: tet68
first the Raptor , nor the Warthog
They should leave the final call on things like this t those that fly them , not the budget minded pencil pushers .
See the PRC/NK on the horizon always
To: tet68
What sort of officer would be caught dead flying such an ugly airplane?
This is an airplane more fit for soldiers.
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:58:14 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: DemforBush
"This is a plane for large land combat engagements and for the foreseeable future, you probably won't face too many of those and there's also the budget pressure."
And there's the rub. It's a changing world, and you won't see huge mass battles like you used to. That's why our soldiers are being trained in localized urban environments - because terrorists aren't found inside fortified military bases. They're found in sleeper cells or metropolitan hubs.
(Of course, the tinfoil hatters around here are convinced it's all a vicious plot to push us to an authoritarian dystopia, but that's another story.)
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posted on
12/12/2013 3:58:15 PM PST
by
arderkrag
(An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
To: DemforBush
The A-10 was declared obsolete before the end of the cold war.
The A-10 was declared obsolete after Desert Storm.
The A-10 is once again being declared obsolete.
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posted on
12/12/2013 4:02:22 PM PST
by
fso301
To: InsidiousMongo
No plane built today is as tough and can fly low and slow like the A-10, while still returning from a mission. Exactly why the Air Force Big-Wigs don't like it.
Too slow, and not glamorous enough.
Plus, it doesn't cost enpugh so there is little room fo payoffs and kickbacks.
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posted on
12/12/2013 4:02:44 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
To: tet68
To: arderkrag
Now there is a stupid statement worthy in every way of Ambrose Everett Burnside’s military accumen.
We are not seeing mass battles because at the moment the superpowers can quash them with weapons systems like these. Disarming for large scale battles makes them viable for one’s opponent again.
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posted on
12/12/2013 4:04:06 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: SVTCobra03
Allow the Army to have fixed wing aircraft and give it to them. Grunts love the Warthog. I'll second that. They are a thing of terrifying beauty.
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posted on
12/12/2013 4:04:14 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: SVTCobra03
ditto for the Marines. It’s their kind of plane.
That will let the AF have more time to play golf while their f35’s are high priced hanger queens.
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posted on
12/12/2013 4:05:26 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
To: fso301
We always ditch the weapons our enemy fears the most.
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posted on
12/12/2013 4:05:42 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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