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Offline SIM

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Getting rid of the A-10?
« on: September 23, 2013, 08:29:38 PM »
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Offline GScholz

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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2013, 08:34:46 PM »
Hasn't the USAF been trying to kill the A-10 since its inception?
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2013, 08:37:59 PM »
Not very likely to happen, especially since Boeing received an additional order for 56 replacement wing assemblies (at $212 million contract cost) on Sept 5th this year.  That is a total of 173 replacement wings they have ordered from Boeing and the possibility of 65+ more in future orders.

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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2013, 03:08:18 PM »
Quote from: Bodhi on September 23, 2013, 08:37:59 PM
Not very likely to happen, especially since Boeing received an additional order for 56 replacement wing assemblies (at $212 million contract cost) on Sept 5th this year.  That is a total of 173 replacement wings they have ordered from Boeing and the possibility of 65+ more in future orders.



Bodhi, I wouldn't be too sure. Look at the British Nimrod...
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2013, 03:55:53 PM »
This will be a disaster if it happens. No 5th Gen multirole fighter can effectively do the job. The F-16 and F/A-18 can't effectively do the job. Hell, even the Apache and other attack helicopters can't do the job as well as the A-10 can.

What REALLY needs to happen is for the Air Force to stop screaming and whining every time someone else wants to play in their sandbox and allow the Army to operate fixed-wing aircraft again, then turn over the A-10 for them to operate directly.
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2013, 04:49:22 PM »
A-10s have helped me out before...would hate to see them go.
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2013, 05:37:19 PM »
They were going to get rid of them back in the early 90s. They told all us A-10 ramp apes to get ready to go to new airframes. 20+ years later the old gal is as ugly as ever and still kicking butt.  :aok
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2013, 07:22:13 PM »
Prior to the first Gulf War, the USAF was actively planning to retire the Hog.  When it was deployed in theatre, the powers to be quickly learned that nothing else could match its capability in the job it was developed to handle.   Captured Iraqi foot soldiers were terrified when the "black cross" showed up.  They said that if they didn't crawl in a hole and disappear, they were going to die.
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2013, 07:25:54 PM »
With the makeup of the current battlefield The A-10 is far more useful then either of the two new fighters coming out. With todays electronic gadgetsThere isnt a single mission that I can think of for those two that cant be done with drone aircraft
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2013, 12:12:49 AM »
Quote from: DREDIOCK on September 24, 2013, 07:25:54 PM
With the makeup of the current battlefield The A-10 is far more useful then either of the two new fighters coming out. With todays electronic gadgetsThere isnt a single mission that I can think of for those two that cant be done with drone aircraft

What 2 new fighters?
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2013, 04:47:25 AM »
Quote from: Shifty on September 24, 2013, 05:37:19 PM
20+ years later the old gal is as ugly as ever and still kicking butt.  :aok

Say what you want but I think a flying GAU-8 Avenger is a beautiful thing!  :D
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2013, 05:30:00 AM »
if I had a good camera I would have gotten the A10's that were buzzing my house about a week ago...45 minutes they were flying lo passes....

not quite tree top level, but damn Lo.... :O

where they came from I have no idea...I am way up North in NH.... :headscratch:
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2013, 06:03:24 AM »
Quote from: ink on September 25, 2013, 05:30:00 AM
if I had a good camera I would have gotten the A10's that were buzzing my house about a week ago...45 minutes they were flying lo passes....

not quite tree top level, but damn Lo.... :O

where they came from I have no idea...I am way up North in NH.... :headscratch:

I see them often when I am camping up in the Adirondacks, about 1 hour north of Lake George. There is a National Guard unit that flies them from somewhere up there.
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2013, 06:25:47 AM »
I have a book somewhere about the A10 in the '91 Gulf war. It ended on a sad note as one of the pilots described flying them to Davis Monthan for storage and eventual disposal as of course the Air Force fighter mafia wanted rid of them.

Moving on, 22 years later, nearly a quarter of a century. The Air Force is still trying to get rid of them. But the old Hog refuses to die. It's still too useful.
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Re: Getting rid of the A-10?
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2013, 06:53:08 AM »
I think they are moving to "unmanned systems" now..

Heck, they have tank seeking projectiles fired from arty weapons..
Or, Anti tank guided cluster bombs.. Kills many tanks with one shot..

Energy weapons that will kill the crew inside without destroying the tank..
Boil their brains in their own Juices..

We just hear about 10% of what DARPA has already cooked up..
And the people runnin this stuff are completely UNSCRUPULOUS!

This world is headed to a very Dark place again..
Glad i won't be around much longer to see it..

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