Article on A-10 replacement

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March 2016 article on possible A-10 replacements.

 

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/03/14/5-Attack-Planes-Could-Replace-10-Warthog

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Oh my god...

 

All of it sound like a joke. Except the F-35 which is a bad joke.

 

history repeats itself again and again but the imbeciles are not capable of learning.

 

 

EDIT. and they left out the F-16 carrying containers.. which is the best of all jokes)

Edited December 10, 2016 by Snailman

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March 2016 article on possible A-10 replacements.

 

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/03/14/5-Attack-Planes-Could-Replace-10-Warthog

 

That video of the F-35 is pretty much 90% pure BS....maybe someone should do a video nit picking all the negatives of the A-10 over the years....it wouldn't look pretty would it!!

 

Why is it when the people who fly these things actually comment it is a different picture

 

 

 

'GREEN BATS' IN THE EYE OF THE STORM | 422nd TES & F-35A

May 2016 Steve Davies COMBAT Aircraft Monthly Magazine

 

 

"The co-location of all fighter types within the ranks of the 422 means the F-35 is ideally placed to develop its

position in the Combat Air Force."

"This spring, the USAF’s 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron ‘Green Bats’ will report to Gen Herbert ‘Hawk’ Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, on the readiness of the Lockheed Martin F-35A to work up toward initial operating capability....

 

"...This particular F-35 was a Block 1B, so about as immature as they come, but this F-35 pilot was a former

A-10 WIC IP [Weapons Instructor Course instructor pilot] and CSAR IP.

 

‘No kidding, he shows up and within a few minutes on station he’s quarterbacked the whole thing, they’ve rescued the

survivor and everyone goes home. It was a fascinating data point — that F-35 was running an immature, never-made-for-prime-time, incrementally developed tape. But he was able to run the CSAR force through his training and SA [situational

awareness], using some of the F-35’s strengths, and mitigating its challenges.’...

 

..."[Maj Samuel ‘Rally’ Chipman, F-35 SPO] ‘I looked at the stats of how we are ‑fighting CAS in Afghanistan, and I know that this is a party-line answer, but the majority of CAS is not ­flown by the A-10. It is ­flown by platforms that have fewer rounds than the A-10. In fact, a lot of them don’t have a gun. Day after day, we’ve executed CAS with zero rounds, so I ‑find it difficult to get wrapped around the axle of playing the numbers game between who has the most rounds.’

 

As for loiter characteristics — the ability to stay low and slow enough to remain ‘eyes on’ the target — Chipman is not fazed by public criticism. ‘The sensor suite on the aircraft affords me a little more stand-off range, and speed is always relative to the threat, so if I am getting shot at, being able to stay fast is good. If I am offset to the threat, then I can slow down to where I am not going 0.9 Mach. The A-model has 18,000lb [8,165kg] internal gas, giving me at least a 1.5-hour loiter on a 200-mile [322km] radius — and that’s comparable to the A-10 if I am not using afterburner’. He continues, ‘It’s all about the threat. If I don’t need to get any closer than, let’s say, four to seven miles, I am going to stay at 18,000ft [5,486m] in my A-10 and be looking in my targeting pod to build a picture. I would do the same thing in the F-35, only I can stand offeven further.’

 

To round off the trio, what about the extremely limited internal weapons loads? ‘What environment am I going in to?’ shrugs Chipman with his hands raised, palms out. ‘If we have troops on the ground and they are operating inside a ‘double-digit’ SAM ring, I am not going to have anything external because survivability is going to take the priority; stealth will be more important than weapons load. The same thing is true for the A-10 — I am not going to be up at 18,000ft, I am going to be at 100ft trying to talk to a JTAC over a ridgeline, unable to see the target until I am up and over that ridgeline. So, it’s a trade-off, as it always is in any tactical situation’. He concludes, ‘I have to be able to survive a contested environment in order to be able to affect the battle on the ground. Once we’ve reduced that threat and the environment is more permissive, we now put four external pylons on the jet and carry just as many bombs as an Operation ‘Inherent Resolve’ combat-loaded A-10’....""

 

Source: Combat Aircraft Monthly MAY 2016

 

 

This thing may cost the earth but nothing flying matches its capability in AA or AG...............guess you get what you pay for........... get over it people.