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'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan
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I may be wrong, but I don't believe it had been retired. I hope it never is.
In other news, a member of my platoon in Saudi Arabia was wounded when an A-10 dropped a bomb on his position. Let that be a lesson to you, kids. When the platoon sergeant says wear your flak jacket. . .do it.
Actually it was. I remember thinking what a bad idea it was at the time. That is one bad **** support aircraft. We had an open house at my base and we had one put on a display. The stuff that thing can do is amazing.
Good to know. I thought they were still arguing about retiring it or not and hadn't pulled the 30mm trigger. I have a shell casing from the 30mm from one, it is freaking giant. It is an amazing weapon. I have never heard one fire in person, but **** the sound that cannon makes is sure distinctive.
I like this one...you have to go toward the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMXTEowRpA
I've seen one at an airshow. Faster than WWII era fighters, but the capability to turn inside faster jets so it can work in mountainous areas better.
Crooow:This music would work better with women in bikinis shaking all over the place. I guess that's true of any music really.
Jim
Second, I freakin' love me some A-10 because they are so **** to watch fly.
That said, if we ever get into a war with a post-Stone Age nation, the A-10 wouldnt fare so well. Low and slow is no way to survive in a modern battlefield environment. Hell, even F-16's, F/A-18's and F-15E's would take significant losses in a near peer conflict.
CAS is a mission, not an airframe. The teen series fighters have been performing the CAS mission admirably since 2003. Even the B-1B has been a major CAS asset. The one thing that is big advantage in favor of the A-10 is its loiter capability, but that is trumped by the B-1.
The 30mm may give the grunts some foxhole chubbies, but there are other aircraft out there capable of delivering ordnance on target, including cannon fire. Once again, CAS is a mission, not a specific aircraft.
With budgets shrinking everything is going to be sacrificed on the F-35 altar. So, the USAF has to choose between a narrow-mission old aircraft with no survivability or the F-35.
PS. The F-35 is just as fugly in person as in the phots you see.
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