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> none of these new planes actually come anywhere close to fulfilling the close ground support role the A-10 offers What makes you think that way? Low-end miss
by crypto5 12y ago
> none of these new planes actually come anywhere close to fulfilling the close ground support role the A-10 offers
What makes you think that way? Low-end missions can be fulfilled by drones and apaches, and high-end obviously by F-35.
A-10 is obsolete mostly because high precision bombs and missiles combined with good sensors are much more efficient than what A-10 has.
- tim333 12y agoThe new planes - they can't look out the window to figure who to shoot so well. Too high and fast. Drones - limited arms. Though they may be the future when they beef them up a bit. Apaches - the enemy machine guns them. Not protected enough. Here's a story from 2007 when the high end B1 screwed up, the Apaches were challenged and the A-10 helped save things: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/a-10s-saved-the-day-in-botched-afghanistan-raid-b78367f4fd0e https://medium.com/war-is-boring/a-10s-saved-the-day-in-botc...
- stormcrowsx 12y agoThe modern Apache fires its weapons from so far away there is no hope of hitting it with a machine gun. Those things are probably the most high tech the Army has, it can communicate with a drone miles ahead of it, that will transmit back the location of a vehicle and the Apache can destroy it without even having line of sight.