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Y-Body
12-12-2013, 4:59pm
Boomerboy this is Grunt. Fire mission Fire mission. Over.
Grunt this is Boomerboy. Negative. Assets not available. Out

They are trying to scrap all the A-10 Warthogs again.
End looms for US Air Force's "Warthog" ground-attack jet (http://news.yahoo.com/end-looms-us-air-force-39-39-warthog-115956604.html)... The Defense Department faces $1 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade, half of them due to automatic reductions in spending known as sequestration.

The US Air Force alone needs to save $12 billion in 2014, according to the service's Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh.

So by 2015, the Air Force plans to part ways with its entire A-10 fleet -- 326 aircraft -- hoping to save $3.7 billion in the process. ...
Norm
12-12-2013, 5:07pm
And.......there is something to take their place? As usual, pin heads making the decisions.
DAB
12-12-2013, 5:12pm
and we have fleets of very pricey, fancy fighters that never see combat action, and we just wear them out training pilots.

have we learned nothing from WWII? we didn't have better planes and tanks, but we could make them faster than the enemy could destroy them.
DukeAllen
12-12-2013, 5:16pm
Drop the BS rule about no fixed wing attack planes with the army and give it to them and the marines and let them go kick ass.
DAB
12-12-2013, 5:21pm
if it's not new and shiny and goes really, really fast, seems the AF isn't interested.

quite capable and relatively cheap planes. dumb.
DukeAllen
12-12-2013, 5:44pm
if it's not new and shiny and goes really, really fast, seems the AF isn't interested.

That's been their problem since before I was born.
American Made
12-12-2013, 6:29pm
if it's not new and shiny and goes really, really fast, seems the AF isn't interested.

quite capable and relatively cheap planes. dumb.

Seems they want to go that way with drones. I worry about the future :lol:
MrPeabody
12-12-2013, 6:32pm
and we have fleets of very pricey, fancy fighters that never see combat action, and we just wear them out training pilots.

have we learned nothing from WWII? we didn't have better planes and tanks, but we could make them faster than the enemy could destroy them.

As far as manufacturing capability, that ship has sailed. Literally.
...Whitepower...
12-12-2013, 6:42pm
Seems they want to go that way with drones. I worry about the future :lol:

Sky net.. Its coming..
69camfrk
12-12-2013, 8:28pm
Sky net.. Its coming..

That is essentially what the big brains say, that it is only a matter of time before computers start making their own choices.:sadangel: