"A-10 vs. fighters and bombers" Topic
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Tango01 | 25 Jun 2014 9:57 p.m. PST |
"It's a time-honored tradition inside the Beltway to "kick the can" on really hard decisions while making sure immediate "solutions" to defer pain only cost more and create bigger problems later. Congress is set to do it again. But the jig is up for these cut-off-the-nose-to-spite-the-face answers. Thanks to the defense drawdown underway, the military can no longer avoid political pain for the politicians in charge. One high profile example of this is the Pentagon proposal to retire the fleet of A-10 Warthog aircraft. Members of Congress are set to pat themselves on the proverbial back for rejecting the president's proposal once the defense bills are finalized. But the cost of saving the A-10 fleet will be much larger numbers of fighters and bombers that will be on the chopping block instead. If the outcry was loud from the A-10 proposal, just wait until next year's budget lands with a thud on Capitol Hill
" full article here. link
Amicalement Armand |
Zyphyr | 26 Jun 2014 11:47 a.m. PST |
Funniest line in the article : "The Air Force offered the A-10 retirement reluctantly." |
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