The A10 is an example of "the right tool for the job." Give it the wrong job and, sure, it will fail. What the last decade plus had demonstrated, is that ther

The A10 is an example of "the right tool for the job." Give it the wrong job and, sure, it will fail. What the last decade plus had demonstrated, is that there is still plenty of work around at which it excels. And for which the military as yet has no comparable nor superior replacement. Ongoing, critical work (well, if you insist on being in that theater, to begin with). In the middle of building a house, you don't throw out your existing hammer two weeks before the new, improved model with the carbon nanotube handle maybe becomes available. Developers aren't ditching their monitors because in 1 - 3 years maybe Oculus and the like are going to give us "infinite", 3D viewspace. I'm sorry to get a bit emotional and strident, here. But a problem the U.S. military has, is -- in good part, for politics, personal power, and money -- bypassing more effective and economical systems for marketing that has yet to be substantiated. They have enough raw resources and innovation to eventually brute force and trick around the resulting limitations, but it costs a lot -- including sometimes lives.