"Why the A-10 Warthog Will Fly Forever" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Dec 2017 3:50 p.m. PST |
"After years of speculation surrounding the fate of the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" — and amid compounding budget pressures — the Air Force's beloved light attack aircraft just picked up a major boost from current Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Dec. 11, the former Air Force officer reassured lawmakers that a multi-million-dollar A-10 wing production program to upgrade the wings on half the service's A-10s, far from being a budget boondoggle, would keep the aircraft dominant against all manner of baddies— and Wilson added, with a smirk, "I happen to be a fan of the A-10."…."
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Tgerritsen  | 15 Dec 2017 6:17 p.m. PST |
Light Attack Aircraft? What? I've never heard anyone describe the A10 as that. |
| ernieR | 16 Dec 2017 7:35 a.m. PST |
maybe compared to a 'heavy' bomber ? |
| Lion in the Stars | 17 Dec 2017 12:43 a.m. PST |
"light" because the A10 "only" carries 16,000lbs of bombs? I mean, the F4 carried 18,000lbs and the F15E Strike Eagle carries 23,000lbs. |
| Charlie 12 | 20 Dec 2017 8:52 p.m. PST |
Just hope it never goes up against first tier defenses. Its battlefield survival against WARPACT doctrine and equipment was dicey back in the late '80s. Imagine the result today. NOT PRETTY. Its day has come and gone. Time for the pathetic fanboys to let go of their A10 fetish… |
| Lion in the Stars | 21 Dec 2017 5:05 p.m. PST |
The A10 has much better jammers now (IIRC, same jammers as F16 and F15E). Still not great, but there isn't really any way around the Russian defenses short of killing them all. And you'd better believe that AAA and SAM are second-from-top priority (top priority being the command vehicles).
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Biggest fault of the A10 is actually engine power. Thing has less thrust than it has bomb capacity, it handles like a pregnant whale at full load.
Would probably be good to swap in a couple late-model CFM56 engines like the 737s use. Quieter, lower IR sig, and a lot more powerful. And cheap, since there are tens of thousands of them in service! |
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is finally getting into Team Yankee.