"5 Attack Planes That Could Replace the A-10 Warthog" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Mar 2016 9:04 p.m. PST |
"The U.S. Air Force seems to have woken up to the fact that it can't simply retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet. The Air Force has waged a years-long campaign to scrap its A-10 fleet in a bid to save roughly $4 USD billion in operating costs. Service leaders have argued that the plane's close air support mission can be performed by existing platforms, including the B-1 bomber and the highly-anticipated F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Related: Another F-35 Glitch Requires Restarting the Radar System – in Flight
Those arguments have met stiff resistance on Capitol Hill. Last week Senate Armed Services Committee chair John McCain (R-AZ) castigated Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh over the lack of a viable substitute for the jet that has seen plenty of action in Iraq and Afghanistan…"
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| Mick the Metalsmith | 16 Mar 2016 5:46 a.m. PST |
no mention of a General Atomics product? |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 16 Mar 2016 9:30 a.m. PST |
None of those listed are worthy "replacements" for the Warthog because they don't carry the GAU-8 rotary cannon. |
| Tango01 | 16 Mar 2016 10:48 a.m. PST |
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| Generalstoner49 | 16 Mar 2016 2:26 p.m. PST |
I say turn the A-10's into drones. Then I would either 1. Develop a medium weight drone with a high loitering time with an integral gun and a high payload or 2. use the Scorpion. Not that the scorpion is more survivable than the Tocano but having a propeller has bad ju-ju all over it. |
| Lion in the Stars | 16 Mar 2016 11:56 p.m. PST |
Actually, there are advantages to using a turboprop. Not least of which is thrust NOW, no delay for engines to spool up. Potentially-lower IR signature is another. |
| Echoco | 17 Mar 2016 12:58 p.m. PST |
@28mm Fanatik
The replacement are meant for COIN and low intensity conflict so no GAU-8 is fine for me. If you happen to need guns like that in those situations an AC-130 would be a much better platform me think. And for high intensity conflict F-16s should probably do fine, with the added bonus of dumping bombs to defend itself if things got real bad in the air. |
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