Hell yes.

  • Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know the A-10 is obsolete but why not let the brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt Horn of Warthog sound one last time. Let it do what it was bred to do at least once.

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      1 year ago

      It wouldn’t survive long enough, unfortunately. Look at all the coverage of manpads and drones, so many anti-aircraft and anti-misfile systems. It really drives home the point that close in air support with a manned aircraft has become suicidal, even in an A-10.

      I always wondered how an F-35 could replace the A-10 for ground support. Clearly it can’t but I believe the goal is precision attacks while staying at a safer distance.

      Look at how Russia is using their Air Force. In general, staying out of range while shooting “precision” weapons.

      F-16 has some really amazing capabilities but I hope they don’t try to use them for close support. Ukraine needs F-16s to bring the fight to the Russian Air Force. It’s no longer ok for them to fly 50 miles offshore to shoot missiles from any direction

      I assume the hesitation was because Ukraine is obviously also interested in stopping Russian Air Force from shooting missiles 100 miles behind the lines … over or near Russian territory

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      1 year ago

      As much as I love the Warthog, it’s very slow & would be a sitting duck for MANPADs, s-300s & s-400s.

      On the other hand, the F-16 was designed for SEAD.