Something like this?
Remember the Doolitle raid didn't need to land on a carrier...
Posted on 03/12/2024 3:21:55 AM PDT by Fish Speaker
WASHINGTON — The US Air Force will request a total of $188.1 billion in the 2025 fiscal year, part of a budget submission that asks lawmakers to greenlight the retirement of 250 aircraft, officials revealed today.
In a Friday briefing with reporters ahead of the budget release, Kristyn Jones, who is performing the duties of the Air Force Undersecretary, said that the service’s budget would grow by about 1.6% compared to the FY24 request of $185.1 billion, an increase of $3 billion. For the Department of the Air Force (DAF), which includes the Space Force, the DAF’s topline would grow from from $215.1 billion in FY24 to $217.5 billion in FY25, an increase of about 1.1%.
“We’re very, very fixated on being competitive with the pacing challenge [of China],” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters during the Friday briefing. “I think the budget that we’ve submitted moves us forward — not quite as fast as we would like to, but it moves us forward in the right direction while maintaining the current capabilities that are essential to the nation. So I’m pretty comfortable with what we’re asking for, given the constraints that we have.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breakingdefense.com ...
I cannot figure out how on earth you can imply that the SAME BUNCH that not only has the US Southern Border WIDE OPEN but are literally FLYING IN Third World types by the millions...How can you try to imply that this bunch is capable of making military decisions that have anything at all to do with US National Interests.
Give it up, at least regarding the idea of scrapping planes in the middle of the LARGEST WAR since World War 2...that decision is literally UNDEFENDABLE, regardless of what you may think of Putin, or anyone else. For example, people on this site DID NOT go around trying to defend the IDIOCY of George W. Bush or Republican leaders in Congress when it came to the US Border...try it some time, if you cannot say something bad about this bunch of Overgrown Hippies running our military, then why you even here. Go back to Reddit or something.
I am wondering if the AF as seen the battlefield in Ukraine and decided that the A10 would not survive the modern air space?
To hell with Ukraine...Give all these airplanes to Israel. The Israeli Air Force is led by men, not boys dressed up in girl clothes, or AA generals.
The IAF can use these assets to continue the fight against the savages in Gaza, Iran...wherever the threat exists.
biden won’t lift a shaking finger to try to bring our hostages home, let real men do the job our sissified Air Force can’t do.
I have no idea what the US intends to do with these. The boneyard at Davis-Monthan probably. Maybe some to the ANG, as there are many squadrons there that fly F15/F16/A10 and even F22.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_and_Regeneration_Group
Israel is also deploying F35s.
Nothing will survive a lethal attack. Not the A-10 or the F-35 or the F-22. Not an Abrams tank; not a Patriot missile battery; not any helicopter.
Not a soldier. Not an aircraft carrier. Not an ICBM launch site.
That said, it doesn't mean these things are not essential.
The goal of the military is, first, prevent wars. Second, win those that get started. To win a military has to destroy the enemy at a rate the enemy can't sustain while taking losses at a rate it can sustain.
If used, A-10s will be at risk; so will every other weapon system.
I never have understood how testicles can be rotted off without blood poisoning. The EMASCULATOR. Wonder what PETA thinks?
Might be better to just get rid of everything. When our end comes maybe it would be better if it were just quick. The AF is so screwed up it may be mostly useless anyway.
Why isn’t this a huge story in the country?
All this stuff was intended for the defense of the United States. Russia has not been on our radar screen as a serious conventional military treat for 30 years.
Not to sound condescending, but your statement is self evident. In my post I was wondering if something has happened on the fields of Ukraine that make using the A10 more dangerous to fly—more susceptible to destruction—than has been deemed acceptable?
The US doesn’t use suicide missions as part of their doctrine.
There isnt a need for even 10% of the US military if it were only about defending the territory of the US.
Russia HAS been on the radar as a conventional threat. More potential than actual through the 1990s (how to deal with a messy civil war scenario say), much more so through the 2000s.
Thats why the US maintains 20 Army+National Guard divisions equipped for continental scale combat, plus reserve equipment for almost triple this force.
Manpads are ubiquitous in Ukraine, and neither side is trying to use their A10 equivalent SU25s in an overflight or direct fire role, with laser designator guided weapons (like the Mavericks standard on A10s).
The only sort of close air support or interdiction viable there is with long range standoff weapons. Or that low altitude popup tactic to barrage rocket pods.
No no no. If the military wants to save money, drop all of the DEI, woke indoctrination going on. That will save you money.
airforce still trying to nuke the A-10s ... Congress should put an end to this perennial effort by transferring all A-10s and their funding to the Marines and Army ... the airforce doesn’t want them anyway ...
The Air Force budget request will not even keep up with inflation, much less keeping up with anything else.
Give anything else to Ukraine only following a thorough, comprehensive, and public audit of every farthing and every molecule of equipment that we've sent to them; and, if there are any omissions or transgressions, deal's off.
With terrible F-35 in-commission rates, how many aircraft is that really?
55% for the F35
Which is better than the 50% for the F22
The rest of the non-stealth combat aircraft fleet is only a little better.
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