A-10s In The News
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 6 months ago
Top U.S. Air Force generals are floating the idea of buying a new warplane to support ground troops better and more cheaply than the venerable A-10 Warthog.
In addition to its utility against militants and other light-to-medium forces, Air Force leaders hope this new close air support, or CAS, plane will help them win the fight to retire the A-10. And they are even beginning to envision an aircraft beyond that, in concepts variously known as the “arsenal plane” or “flying Coke machine.”
“I’d love to build a new CAS airplane right now while we still have the A-10 [and then] transition the A-10 community into the new CAS airplane,” Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, said Wednesday at a Defense Writers Group breakfast. “We just don’t have the money to do it and we don’t have the people to keep flying the A-10 and build a new airplane and bed it down.”
Of course you don’t have money to do it. You’re throwing away billions of dollars on the F-35, a piece of shit that can’t do anything well and does a lot of things wrong, and you’re doing it because you’re enamored by this stupid idea of fifth generation warfare.
Only the U.S. Air Force could promote such idiots. Elsewhere in the news, here is a video of a crew getting an A-10 ready for launch.
The A-10 is the manliest, baddest aircraft ever to be invented by mankind. Leave it to the Air Force to be in love with something else. Look, if you’re a proponent of the F-35, except for throwing away our money (for which I want to beat you up one side of the road and down the other), you can still hang out with the boys, but we’ll have to wait in the car for you to put on your lipstick and skirt.
On June 21, 2016 at 12:49 pm, Josh said:
Is this a joke?
On June 21, 2016 at 1:24 pm, Herschel Smith said:
What the corrupticrats in the AF are trying to do is get more money for a prop plane to support CAS for ground troops so they can scavenge the A-10 program for its last little bit of money to feed the monster of the F-35.
At least that’s my takeaway. It’s a good time NOT to be ground troops.
On June 21, 2016 at 2:11 pm, Fred said:
They won’t ask. I know they won’t because they never do.
Dear U.S. Army and Marines, how can we best support your ground operations with air cover? Sincerely, US AF
It’s a simple-assed question, perhaps, too simple. Best jet ever. Since I was a child I have always liked the P-51 as the “what’s your favorite, any era” plane. A-10 is runner up.
On June 27, 2016 at 8:41 pm, Fred said:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2016/06/because-they-would-have-done-it-for-me.html