Say goodbye to the best of the best....

[V40]

Well folks, it look like the A-10 will stay. Here is the story.

www.janes.com/article/30928/northrop-grumman-awarded-a-10-support-contract

 

[beihan62]

Good News,

Thanks Mark,thats good news,
Regards,
Don,

 

[V40]

Your very welcome my friend! For a while there it looked as though we had lost the fight. Personally, I think they had gotten a tremendous amount of mail or coresspondence that they could not do otherwise?

 

[Nabob]

Well folks, it look like the A-10 will stay.

I am afraid it is not over yet:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/02/25/air-force-begins-hill-battle-to-retire-a10-u2.html

I guess that CAS is not so cool as dogfights but I doubt that F-35 will excell in any of them. Well shooting the AMRAAM BVR is not even a dogfight.
off topic: I wonder when they start to put the AMRAAMs on AC-130

One more article:
http://defensetech.org/2014/02/25/let-humans-override-f-35-alis-computer/
The plane just evaluates that the faulty part is the padding between the seat and the stick.

Bob

 

[V40]

I am afraid it is not over yet:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/02/25/air-force-begins-hill-battle-to-retire-a10-u2.html

I guess that CAS is not so cool as dogfights but I doubt that F-35 will excell in any of them. Well shooting the AMRAAM BVR is not even a dogfight.
off topic: I wonder when they start to put the AMRAAMs on AC-130

One more article:
http://defensetech.org/2014/02/25/let-humans-override-f-35-alis-computer/
The plane just evaluates that the faulty part is the padding between the seat and the stick.

Bob

Yep, I saw that article a couple of day ago. There was comment in one article I read whereby one person stated that the B-1 could do CAS. I wouldn't be calling in a B-1 for CAS if I were in a situation and needed it now. The first thing I would be told would be a big "Negative" by our ETACs because it would cost way to much. This government will never learn.