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2018-02-03 Government

The Air Force Is Re-Winging A-10s After All

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Posted by KBK 2018-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The AF has repeatedly expressed its disdain for the close air support mission. It is unclear to me why we don't give the A-10s to the ground services and stop this dicking around.

Posted by SteveS 2018-02-03 00:41|| 2018-02-03 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Of the 280 A-10s still in U.S. Air Force service, 173 have received new wings to keep them flying into the 2030s.
2030's? Will the A-10's be flying after the last F-35A is retired, or will the F-35A be finally in active squadron service by that time? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by magpie 2018-02-03 01:24|| 2018-02-03 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 I have a strong feeling that Trump is behind this support for the A10's. What is good for the troops on the ground is reason enough to support for him.

Posted by Dale 2018-02-03 06:55|| 2018-02-03 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 This has been an ongoing fight for years.

Posted by Dale 2018-02-03 06:56|| 2018-02-03 06:56|| Front Page Top

#5 We gave the A-10 to the Army but then the Airforce wanted it back.
It have been years of aggravation trying to keep this program alive.
The Airforce is schizophrenic with it's spending.

They spend all their monies on thee idiot trillion dollar airplane (F-35) the idiot congress made them take.

And it still does not have portholes.

Posted by newc 2018-02-03 09:52|| 2018-02-03 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 They spend all their monies on thee idiot trillion dollar airplane (F-35) the idiot congress made them take.
No, Puzzle Palace Mafia and the Beltway Think Tank Cabal. There is an intellectual argument to the multi-role one plane does everything. Take the F/A-18 as an example: A-6's and/or A-7's to drop the bombs, EA-6's for defense suppression, F-4's for fighter cover and so on. With a multi-role you can magically fold all those airframes into one plane and shrink the size of the air force by 20% ...
Until you need those specialists to do the hard jobs because the enemy has a vote and they don't feel like making things easy. And the bean counters have decided to throw away all of that specialist "know how" because multi-role means multi-capable.

Posted by magpie 2018-02-03 10:23|| 2018-02-03 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 i like the way Magpie thinks.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-02-03 10:57|| 2018-02-03 10:57|| Front Page Top

#8 The Space War folk have a similar fight with the AirForce. The A-10 supporters and Space Command supporters should get together.

Posted by 3dc 2018-02-03 11:28|| 2018-02-03 11:28|| Front Page Top

#9 It is unclear to me why we don't give the A-10s to the ground services and stop this dicking around.

They will pretend it costs a bazillion dollars a year to run, cancel the plane, then keep control of the money so they can funnel it into the stupid F-35 program.

Posted by gorb 2018-02-03 18:00|| 2018-02-03 18:00|| Front Page Top

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