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The A-10 is not a plane that will be useful for long. It is great against rebels with kalashnikows, but it is far too vulnerable to rockets. In 10-20 years, man
by MrBuddyCasino 11y ago
The A-10 is not a plane that will be useful for long. It is great against rebels with kalashnikows, but it is far too vulnerable to rockets. In 10-20 years, manpads will be commonplace, and the A-10 will be an easy target.
Its a great plane, and the JSF is shit, but we need a different solution going forward.
- dsfyu404ed 11y agoThe A-10 was meant to go head to head with Soviet armored divisions. It's built to be hard to take out with a rocket which is what makes it so great for CAS. MANPADS have been common for a very long time. The Mujaheddin used them with great success.
- swang 11y ago1. Manpads are already pretty common 2. A-10 has both jamming and flare countermeasures against infrared. 3. Anything terrorist groups can acquire are probably going to be infrared MANPADs. My guess is ISIL would probably have acquired MANPADs from the large cache of SA-7 MANPADs Gaddafi stocked, meaning they're all likely infrared MANPADs. A-10s are not invulnerable against MANPADs, but they're not helpless against them either. In fact, one of the biggest reasons the air force hated the A-10 was because it was "too slow" and could be "easily" hit by a SA-7
- rjsw 11y agoThe A-10 is too slow. It is just used in a similar way to other planes these days, to drop smart bombs, a supersonic jet can cover a lot bigger area to respond to requests from ground troops.