On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:19:07 -0500, Mitchell Holman
<noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>Stormin' Norman <norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium> wrote in
>news:n3lsidpv2fc4baimb5dsd5d8uct7f6c2lt@4ax.com:
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>> Amazing what one finds just by turning over a few rocks!
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>> "The U.S. Air Force has a complicated relationship with its low- and
>> flying branch has tried more than once to retire the ungainly A-10 in
>> favor of speedier planes, only for lawmakers to block the move.
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>> But on at least one occasion, the Air Force actually defended the
>> modern version of the World War II P-51 Mustang that Congress for some
>> reason really loved.
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> I thought the A-10 was phased out because
>it's mission could be better performed - and
>and less cost - by drone-carried missles. No?
>
>
To the best of my knowledge, the A-10 is expected to be in service
with the USAF to at least 2028.
Originally, the AF had proposed replacing the A-10 with the F-35A but
I believe congress didn't go for that idea, a good decision IMHO.
Now, the AF is evaluating several turboprop aircraft as replacements.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/air-force-tests-two-turboprops-as-potential-a-10-replacements/
If the USAF desk jockeys were on the ground faced with enemy fire, I
wager they would come back and insist on acquiring an updated version
of the A-10 with the same GAU-8 Avenger 30MM autocannon.
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are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability. This
is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an
undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs
are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a
craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism
where the world outside himself has value - indeed exists - only
insofar as it sustains and inflates him."
- Charles Krauthammer M.D. (Board Certified Psychiatrist)
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