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'Obsolete' Warthogs head to Iraq
Good article with some poignant comments on not just the weapons system but the overall management of the types of wars we now face. (www.americanthinker.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If the Air force wants out of close air support, Give the A-10 to the Army.
This magnificent warplane should never be withdrawn from service. The Air Force wants it gone because it doesn't fit the hotshot, fighter pilot image. In the Air Force pecking order the A-10 ranks just above barrage balloons and those who fly them are looked down on as a form of Untermensch.
I have long held that the A-10s and those who fly and maintain them should be transferred, lock, stock, and barrel to Army Aviation where they belong as an integral part of close air support for Army ground operations.
I have long held that the A-10s and those who fly and maintain them should be transferred, lock, stock, and barrel to Army Aviation where they belong as an integral part of close air support for Army ground operations.
I think the A-10 is one of the greatest air support platforms ever built and
if nothing else, just its presence instills quite a 'fear factor' to any ground force.
Long live the Warthog!
if nothing else, just its presence instills quite a 'fear factor' to any ground force.
Long live the Warthog!
It does the job it was designed to do in a theater that is perfect for the assigned mission. For once congress got it right.
Like congress had anything to do with specing it out... They paid the bill, but it wasn't them who designed it.
Real Easy - Transfer the Warthogs to Army Aviation. Army Aviation has more pilots than the Air Force anyway.
I absolutely agree, but a quick review of the history of the US Army's Grumman 0V–1 Mohawk in Vietnam would be instructive here. The Army's initial use in Vietnam of Mohawks armed with rockets and 50 caliber machine guns was very effective in performing close air support for the troops. The Air Force had a cow and managed to wrangle a prohibition on arming of mohawks. Sometime after that, the commander of the 12th Aviation brigade rearmed his Mohawks and used them with deadly efficiency. It caused a huge uproar and again the disarming of the Mohawks. Bottom line, the US Air Force does not tolerate any competition for fixed wing CAS from the U.S. Army; they can't make that stick with the .Navy or Marine Corps. I respect the United States Air Force on most of their missions, but their politics on CAS are more than a little weasely.
I'm all for that! :)