A-10 Being Retired.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

Sad news gents, the A-10 will be seeing the last of her days soon. After all the work she's done, they decided to piss in 'er face and replace her with the Rubbish Helicopter-CAS jet one night stand child.



  This makes me so mad

http://news.usni.org/2014/02/25/pentagon-retiring-air-forces-u-2-10-warthog-latest-budget-deal

No plane like the A-10 can ever have a freedom cannon of the degree she did 

[DaveBB]

It is a great airplane.  Modern day version of the A-1. 

Things go in cycles, in our next war the U.S. will realize it needs a slow, tight turning CAS aircraft.  And we will design one, just in time for peace.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

See Rule #14

[DaveBB]

Drones still have pilots.  In fact, a recent article came out that said that some of the pilots are getting PTSD. 

Now the Tomahawk Cruise Missile has been flying purely automated missions for years.  It could attack several targets with its intertial guidance system, all without any human input after it was launched. 

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

They cant make humans into machines, but they sure can make machines do the things, no human would ever do.

[DaveBB]

I'm not following you.  Give me some examples of what you are talking about.

[pembquist]

It's not so much a stupid decision as it is one being made on the basis of an unvoiced criteria which isn't about putting the most sensible tools in the right hands but about egos, golf courses careers and simple greed. Same as it ever was I suppose, but the mendacity galls me.

[pembquist]

They cant make humans into machines, but they sure can make machines do the things, no human would ever do.

The flying genetic mine. Has the data base of all your people's genetic iD, it flys around looking for people and if your not on the list Kaboom. Simple, clean and effective. Typographical errors? Things happen. Dubious morality? What are we 6?

Thing is there are and have been throughout history people that have been willing or even eager to do much worse. But automation can do extremely stupid things that you didn't want it to so point very much taken. I ask myself don't people watch SciFi?

[DaveBB]

How does it test DNA from the air?

[GScholz]

See Rule #14

[BoilerDown]

Because it rhymes...


Who knew we still flew the U-2?

[pembquist]

See Rule #14

[pembquist]

How does it test DNA from the air?

A very sharp 7 inch long sampling needle or a gentle cotton swab of your inside cheek, you decide. The decision effects the detonation algorithm though.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

See Rule #14

[JOACH1M]

i love when the a-10's fly the low over the river i live on...we share the river with canada