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A10 mentioned !!!
crashed
What could have possibly caused this. What a mystery
the front fell off.
It’s not like you can hear them coming or anything. Pretty stealthy aren’t they? 🤦
I thought the A-10 was decommissioned…?
He was ONE day from retirement!
I think they’ve been trying to phase out the damned things but who knows whats going on with the back end shit. Wouldn’t even be surprised if kegsbreth specifically kept them in commission because the look kool.
The Army wants to keep them. F-35s can’t do the A-10’s job properly, and the A-10 has a reputation. However, they are old with no replacement even in the works because the Air Force only wants bombers or fighters.
The Army wants to keep them. F-35s can’t do the A-10’s job properly, and the A-10 has a reputation. However, they are old with no replacement even in the works because the Air Force only wants bombers or fighters.
Which job is that? Killing hiluxes and insurgents with no air defense capabilities? Because against everybody else the A-10 throws stand-off munitions from medium altitude, when it’s not banned from entering hostile airspace.
It’s no coincidence nobody wants to operate it. Not any foreign air force, not USAF that is stuck with it and not the US army that was offered it(they are fine with USAF paying for it).
F-16s can do anything useful the A-10 can and much more.
Well it all depends on what you’re doing. The A-10s can carry more ordinance, longer loiter times, more heavily armored than something like the f35.once you establish air superiority you need trucks to dump munitions as fast and cheaply as possible.
That’s not the F-35’s role, that’s the F-16’s role for the USAF (and most western air forces) and carries as much ordinance, has better range since it’s not hampered by armor.
It also actually has performed low-level attacks against AAA, something the A-10 was banned from doing in Desert Storm, despite having armor for that specific task.
Which is the issue, the A-10’s core concept is flawed. Armor does not provide suitability to aircraft, not even against AAA, never mind SAMs. Compromising performance (speed, range), forgoing capabilities (A2A radar) makes the plane practically useless.
Maybe I am cynical, and I am by no way a military expert of any kind, but I would figure that an A-10 is more expendable than a F-35.
I am in the ‘A-10s are cool’ camp, but I do not think that they are particularly useful anymore on a modern battlefield.
Extremely rare. This thing is like a tank in the sky.
I also thought that Warthogs were antiquated as CAS? Fucking dipshit Kegsbreath (Epstein War aside)
Extremely rare.
Not really, A10s have the highest loss rate of any post-Vietnam US aircraft.
Are you factoring in as a percent of combat sorties and proportionality? Because when taking this into account, I’m not sure that’s right.
And has numerous incidents of being blown to bits and still returning to base. The pilot themselves is literally inside a “titanium bathtub”.
Keep in mind finally that the nature of this aircraft is not to engage from a stand-off distance but rather be up close. Ultimately I’m really curious what brought this bird down.
… The V-22 Osprey on the other hand… Look at it wrong and she falls out of the sky.
They are great for fighting wars against goat herders who live in caves, which apparently is the only military we can fight.
This. We got so use to fighting farmers with guns and rpgs that we have no experience fighting an actual army.
I really don’t look forward to when we actually throw hands with a really powerful military. I feel we will see a lot of American troops dead.
It’s the A10 we are talking about. You better make sure those farmers don’t have bricks or anything else they can throw.
But on the other hand, yeah, the plane excels on its role of staying low over an enemy army and shoot everything at random.
They’re old, but still the most effective in that role. At least when they don’t have the threat of being shot down.
Warthogs are extremely cool. I’d end this comment with “fight me!”, but honestly I’m not that invested.
One of my favourite DOS games back in the day was A-10 Tank Killer. It was a surprisingly good flight sim for its day and relatively accessible for a kid playing on a keyboard and mouse. I played that game so much, I’ve got a soft spot for the old A-10.
You should check out nuclear option. Its sorta strangereal esque where they have near future style craft in a modern theater. Smack in between Ace Combat and DCS in realism. Theres an A10 replacement that has turboprops
No they’re not. (It’s on)
They’re cool, but from what I have read, they are shit for the most part.
