" The services waste these ‘big war’ resources on our insurgency campaigns. F/A-18s were about 10k per flight hour and perform worse than platforms such as the

" The services waste these ‘big war’ resources on our insurgency campaigns. F/A-18s were about 10k per flight hour and perform worse than platforms such as the Super Tacono" The Tacono example is interesting. You can read about the A29 procured by USSF in 2006 looking for an alternative A10 , cheap and fit for purpose. [0] [0] "The WWII-Era Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money" ~ http://motherboard.vice.com/read/low-and-slow http://motherboard.vice.com/read/low-and-slow