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2015-08-31 Science & Technology

F-35 vs. A-10 Matchup Isn't 'Silly' After All

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-31 14:10|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 cross-index results by cost and I just don't see how it can be close. You'd get a lot of A10s for the cost of one F-35.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-08-31 15:15|| 2015-08-31 15:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The A10 is an aircraft in which the real end user (ground troops aka the Army) had a lot of input of what they wanted in the design and operation. How much has the F35 had? Now that's a matchup I'd like to see.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-31 15:29|| 2015-08-31 15:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Notice how they wait a year for the test to give the POS F-35 time to get some "kinks" out.

Posted by newc 2015-08-31 15:29|| 2015-08-31 15:29|| Front Page Top

#4 The F-35 can survive in high-threat, close-air support environments with its advanced stealth and other high-tech features, while the A-10 can't.

How would the F-35 fare in a hail of flying lead?

Posted by Pappy 2015-08-31 15:39|| 2015-08-31 15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Stealth doesn't help you much when your mission is to fly low and slow, while spitting 30mm death and dropping bombs.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-31 15:45|| 2015-08-31 15:45|| Front Page Top

In other mindless misapplications of technology.

I hope no one in giverment sees this photo.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-31 15:52|| 2015-08-31 15:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Any bets the powerful people that only want the F-35 around will have their thumb firmly on the scales?

Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-31 16:06|| 2015-08-31 16:06|| Front Page Top

#8 The F-35 can survive in high-threat, close-air support environments with its advanced stealth and other high-tech features

It has a real, functional, practical cloaking device which render it invisible to the eye...

I'm not military but I don't think 'Close Air Support' means > 3 miles away...

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-08-31 17:04|| 2015-08-31 17:04|| Front Page Top

#9 As I understand it, the major benefit of the F-35 is not supposed to be dogfighting or actual close ground support, but beyond visual range engagements where the pilot never even sees the enemy up close.
So why don't we just hang all that gear on a drone, as the pilot is basically out of the loop anyway? (Aside from that the airdales want a shiny new toy.)

Posted by ed in texas 2015-08-31 18:46|| 2015-08-31 18:46|| Front Page Top

#10 I think this contest is stupid even if y'all are using it to continue to tell me all the usual commie lies about the F-35 being useless for the tasks it was designed for (basically, interdiction). I don't think the answer to all the tests y'all are pretending weren't rigged and full of half-truths isn't to come up with some rigged ones of our own.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-08-31 21:20|| 2015-08-31 21:20|| Front Page Top

#11 How would the F-35 fare in a hail of flying lead?

Well, I dunno, have we tested the A-10 against the "Tungusta" missile? If we fly them in Syria, sooner or later, we're going to the hard way.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-08-31 21:30|| 2015-08-31 21:30|| Front Page Top

#12 What I'm trying to say is, the plane isn't as bad as y'all think, for all the reasons I talked about the first time around with that website's half-truths that y'all accepted as gospel, and the Russians have been spending the last thirty years working on missiles designed to kill the A-10.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-08-31 21:36|| 2015-08-31 21:36|| Front Page Top

#13 By your argument Thing, the Army should also give up the attack helicopter as well due to the lethality of the low level support environment created by the Soviets.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-31 22:19|| 2015-08-31 22:19|| Front Page Top

#14 ..and yes, they've gone back to being the 'Soviets'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-31 22:20|| 2015-08-31 22:20|| Front Page Top

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