“Maybe send the retired Warthogs to Israel?”
“I’m certain they can use them.”
Israel has already rejected the acquisition of the A-10 for the same reasons as the U.S. Air Force; i.e. insufficient funding to deploy a single-role weapons system in a threat environment requiring multi-role weapons systems to deploy against multiple kinds of threats.
You must either increase funding to accommodate specialized single-role missions, or in the absence of sufficient funding your weapons systems must have the multi-role capability of using the same aircraft for many different kinds of missions. In other words, when you don’t have enough money and manpower, you must do more with less money, less manpower, and less resources.
That makes good sense, thanks :-)