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Posted on 03/03/2015 7:01:08 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
The U.S. Army has no interest in taking over the Air Force’s fleet of A-10 attack planes, even if it would save the venerable Cold War-era aircraft from the bone yard.
The service’s top civilian, Army Secretary John McHugh, rejected the idea of accepting hand-me-down A-10 Warthogs from the Air Force.
“No chance,” he said during a breakfast meeting with reporters on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. “That’s not even been a topic of casual conversation.”
“With our own aircraft fleet we’re taking some pretty dramatic steps to reconfigure and become more affordable, and the A-10 mission is not something we considered. That’s an Air Force mission as it should be and I’m sure the Air Force feels the same way,” McHugh said.
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They could always give them to police departments; I mean they’ve already given them all kinds of equipment like armored vehicles.
/sarc
Seems like the Marines would want them.
With A-10s they have to get:
1. A-10 maintenance parts in their supply system.
2. A-10 training for their helo mechanics.
3. Transfer all those A-10 Air Force pilots to the Army (fat chance).
4. Find sufficient operation support (fixed wing is going to have different requirements).
That's just off the top of my head, and I'm not in the A-10 community.
I doubt this has anything to do with the capability of the aircraft. The Army is struggling to pay the bills for their existing programs, so there is no way for them to accept any platform on those terms. If they are given the aircraft, without the funding slice to support/integrate them, they would have to pay for sustainment, operations, facilities, and likely new training/staffing, as well as the cost of figuring out how to integrate them doctrinely and organizationally with the existing force. This would be a very large bill indeed.
“Seems like the Marines would want them.”
All they need are some tailhooks.
I’ll take them.
Shows that promotions to upper ranks in the Army are now based on political reliability more than on talent, insight or love of country. Rejecting one of the best tools in the chest is not good policy.
Give ‘em to the Marines; I’ll bet they’d love ‘em!
This, among other reasons.
Inter-military squabbles are detrimental to a nation's defense. If they would consider the MISSION instead of their EGOS the we would be a whole lot better off.....................but then look who's CIC......................
Yes we would................
We are used to ‘hand me downs’..............make do with what you have, and if you don’t have it, STEAL IT.......................
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Yea, if the Army were to take them, they would need a lot of money plus several years come up to speed on the maintenance.
Improvise, adapt, overcome.
Ooooorah!
if they were being replaced by something like this, i'd be less concerned.
unfortunately, they'd being replaced by whispers and dreams.
As a soetoro appointee, he’s either an outright enemy islamist or a facilitator, so what would you expect him to say?
Improvise, adapt, overcome.............AND DON’T GET CAUGHT.................
The F-15 and F-16 are not close air support aircraft.There too Damned fast and too delicate for the job.All it would take would be one round from an AK47 and the pilot of either of those planes could be in a cage and on fire.
These appointees are nuts.Espechially this Secretary of the Air Force.
In the Corps. the Obama administration would be
described as a “Lash-up” organization.
Not a term you want applied to your outfit.
Too bad really.
The Army AFAIK has nothing but praise for the ol’ Hog. The close air support that even two or three of these aircraft can provide is unparalleled.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414635/case-warthog-mike-fredenburg
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