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2020-04-10 Home Front: WoT
Air Force Targets Davis-Monthan For Bulk Of A-10 Cuts
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Posted by Frank G 2020-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 After seeing the effectiveness of the Worts, it seems pretty obvious. They just want to spend money, our money.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-10 09:32||   2020-04-10 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Way past time to tell the AF either quit mucking about CAS or we move it to the Army, material, equipment, personnel, and budget. If the Marines can have their own CAS, the Army can have theirs (and end Army attack chopper development as a alternative to the AF mishandling of CAS).
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-10 09:43||   2020-04-10 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Privatization.
Blackwater AF.

Low and slow?
Imagine shipping lane pirate patrols.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-10 09:50||   2020-04-10 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 There's an easy solution for the Air force. Inform them that any cuts made to the A-10 will be reflected by an order of magnitude in the entire air force budget. So cut 160 million from the A-10 funds, the air force gets a 1.6 billion dollar cut. Oh and anyone proposing the cuts gets retired to prison for treason.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-04-10 10:42||   2020-04-10 10:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course they want to replace the A-10 'Warthog' with F-35 'Thingamajigs'...
The bean counters™ love the magic-ness of multi-role aircraft that can (supposedly) do everything poorly mediocrely adequately. On paper they can use 50-ish multi-role aircraft to replace an inventory of 70-ish specialist aircraft. On paper. Paper planes don't fail to back because they couldn't perform the basic mission...
Posted by magpie 2020-04-10 12:16||   2020-04-10 12:16|| Front Page Top

#6 AGREE with the "BRICK"!
Posted by ranture 2020-04-10 12:55||   2020-04-10 12:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Baffling. Not a USAF guy here... can someone pls explain why they're doing this? Isn't the Warthog one of the most successful military aircraft we've ever built?
Posted by Lex 2020-04-10 12:58||   2020-04-10 12:58|| Front Page Top

#8 It's not Zoomy
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-10 13:05||   2020-04-10 13:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Lex, it's not sexy like a fighter plane. You could also be snide and say that buying a brand new airframe is good for your post-military career as a "paid consultant". There will be competent, hard working professionals in the US military trying to make the best use of this vehicle and hopefully they will have a better result than the ongoing multi-role "dumpster fire" that is the Littoral Combat Ship(LCS) program.

Have you ever watched The Pentagon Wars(1998)? There is a cutting remark about what the push to make a multi-role APC can do for you: (Wiki)...He delves into the mountains of paper documenting the Bradley's development history and comes to the conclusion that it is "a troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snowblower, but has enough ammo to take out half of D.C."
Posted by magpie 2020-04-10 13:39||   2020-04-10 13:39|| Front Page Top

#10 We dug the AD 1 Skyraider in Viet Nam as that thing could loiter overhead with plenty of ordinance...risky was F8 Crusader as first pass was 20 mm strafe,2nd pass was rockets unless he seen you...
Talk about a stain in yer skivies..!!
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-04-10 13:52||   2020-04-10 13:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks, magpie. Makes sense. Will check out The Pentagon Wars.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-10 14:27||   2020-04-10 14:27|| Front Page Top

#12 The real test of the Bradley was in the field at 73 Easting.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-10 16:00||   2020-04-10 16:00|| Front Page Top

#13 /\ Wooden Ships and Iron Men ... in many cases it isn't the vehicle but the crew. I think it can be argued that the army that went into the 1991 Campaign was the best trained and disciplined that we have ever had.
Posted by magpie 2020-04-10 18:52||   2020-04-10 18:52|| Front Page Top

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