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Pentagon to test F-35 against A-10 for Close Air Support
Already an alarmingly poor dogfighter, we may now find out just how good the JSF is at CAS. Reads like the Air Force is prepared for it to lose against the 40-year-old A-10 but use it anyway. (www.defensenews.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
we have not gone toe-to toe with soviet first line fighters lately. In dogfighting, the soviet aircraft have advantages in power, turning, slow-speed, directional reversal, and some excellent missiles . We have wonderful airshow performers, and the soviets have a succession of derivations of tough fighters that we can't counter so essily. The F-35 has so much negative baggage I wonder how it lifts off. Time to flush this f35, keep the numbers already in service, and buy no more of them than we did of the f-22. we have made a epic goof, a sort of Maginot Line purchase of a deficient aircraft. Let's do it again, only correctly this time.
The Air Force has never liked and never wanted the A-10. The grunts love them. As others have commented the AF pushed the A-16, which was a turd, and now the F-35, which is a turd. It's all fun and games until you actually need to blast some mujahideen who are shooting back.
Once the AF is losing F-35s in the CAS role in considerable numbers, count on them to pull them back, raise the altitudes, cut the sortie rate, etc, cutting their losses but leaving the ground troops dangerously exposed.
Once the AF is losing F-35s in the CAS role in considerable numbers, count on them to pull them back, raise the altitudes, cut the sortie rate, etc, cutting their losses but leaving the ground troops dangerously exposed.
I suppose the public and the media will be left out of this one? I wonder if Fairchild will even be there?
this is the premier shit-kicker in the world of ground support, and any group of officers with stars on their shoulderboards that deny that fact whilst being wined and dined by the makers and supplier of the bowwwow-35 ought to be retired en masse. It is not even a worthy opponent for what the Russians have now and are about to have, so why are we spending hundreds of billions for the second-place trophy, when the price of that trophy is many American lives, pilots and grunts. Look up the word treason, and see how this applies.
Won't be a challenge... The A10 will be superior
A friend of mine in Desert Storm said he would rather see an A-10 coming then a care package from home. In CAS there is nothing like the A-10. Retrofit some engines and a few new systems and let them keep on doing what they do best, CAS!