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Then as always flyboys were reluctant to support the grunts doing the actual fighting on the ground, just as they are trying to kill the A-10 Warthog today.
by fmajid 5y ago
Then as always flyboys were reluctant to support the grunts doing the actual fighting on the ground, just as they are trying to kill the A-10 Warthog today.
- p_l 5y agoUSAF was originally primarily a bomber force, even as USAAF at the time. They want to get rid of Warthog because it was a suicide plane from the day it was delivered, it's just that congress either pushes continued use of the inadequate plane and only allowed option at one point was to go with JSF, because it was the only plane in this weight class they were allowed to procure. There were at least few attempts to build a better plane than A-10 for the specific use case where it's actually good (shooting at lightly armed forces) without much of the unnecessary price tag and maintenance, but all got shot down by bean counters.