Active Duty ping.
How about we cut some ‘gibsmedat’ programs and properly fund the military?
Call their bluff. Now.
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Maybe send the retired Warthogs to Israel?
I’m certain they can use them.
Well, yeah. Drop the 35. It appears to be on the way to achieving white elephant status. It is billed as a jack of all trades and is apparently not excellent in any.
Why can’t they use McClellan AFB?
Our way or we fire all the police and fire emegency.
I just can’t imagine no F-16s. Truly a great versatile craft.
Let the Air Force brass spend 30 days on the ground, in the shit, so they can make an informed decision.
The Warthog is a most excellent flying cannon platform, able to operate in close support of ground troops, and can destroy most armored vehicles on the ground with a short burst of its Gatling machine gun, a “point and shoot” REAL assault weapon.
Besides, it can carry a pretty useful supply of air-to-ground missiles, great for breaking up motorized columns in convoy.
And it can hop in and out of short runways and under what would be extremely adverse conditions for most other aircraft. Also, it has almost unbelievable airworthiness even under serious damage, as it has multiple redundant air surface control mechanisms. Should the hydraulics fail for any reason, it can still cripple home with an underlying mechanical control system. There is even a crank-down for the landing gear, should it be needed.
Feed this beast. It is the right aerial assault weapon for close-in fighting.
“the A-10 retirement, which it says will save about $4.2 billion over the next four years”
A billion a year? In military terms, that’s zero with a rounding error.
Do it. The F-16 is fragile and they’ve already pretty much devoted it to ground strike.
F-16 ping.
The A10 has a very unique role in close fighting and should remain an active aircraft. It remains one of the few close combat support aircraft that can survive while providing ground support. It will be essential in the upcoming middle east wars.
Is the AF threatening to cut their football program, lunch budget, spring concert, and PTA if they don't get their way?
The country is in the early stages of a death spiral.
America cannot indefinitely keep granting more and more in welfare benefits and other government handouts while bringing in millions and millions of legal and illegal immigrants who immediately go on the federal government dole.
It is an ever growing appetite that can never be satisfied.
Meanwhile the government keeps raising taxes, cutting military and infrastructure expenditures, and borrowing money just to pay the daily bills.
It cannot go on forever.
The F-35 is such a screw up they couldn’t even give it the right designation.
Kill it already!
They should just order all new A10s and be done with it.
This reminds me of how local governments work. When there is a budget shortfall, rather than cut in the logical places, they “kill” the libraries, the police, and the firemen until they are given more money.