The A-10 Warthog. A plane that is immensely useful as long as your enemy doesn’t have planes of their own, air defense, shoulder-fired weapons or machine guns.
ROFL, the A-10 is the most successful close air support aircraft ever. It was kept flying for 20+ years past it’s retirement age with everyone trying to kill it (leadership and Congress) because nothing can come close to doing what it can.
You want a failure look at the F-22 being retired without ever seeing combat despite there being active wars. It was too expensive and too unreliable.
the A-10 is the most successful close air support aircraft ever.
Yes, because America’s enemies during that time didn’t have planes of their own, air defense, shoulder-fired weapons or machine guns.
What they had was old AK’s, Soviet artillery shells filled with fertilizer, Casio watches and Nokia phones. (Oh, and they won.)
So the navy has the Littoral ships, the army has the Bradley (watch the movie Pentagon Wars), so what does the airforce have?
The Bradley thing was way overblown and The Pentagon Wars didn’t really happen that way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gOGHdZDmEk
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The F-35 program.
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The A-10 Warthog. A plane that is immensely useful as long as your enemy doesn’t have planes of their own, air defense, shoulder-fired weapons or machine guns.
ROFL, the A-10 is the most successful close air support aircraft ever. It was kept flying for 20+ years past it’s retirement age with everyone trying to kill it (leadership and Congress) because nothing can come close to doing what it can.
You want a failure look at the F-22 being retired without ever seeing combat despite there being active wars. It was too expensive and too unreliable.
You’re wrong but I’m gonna let the Pig school you
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Tell that to the unarmed balloons shot down earlier this year!
Yes, because America’s enemies during that time didn’t have planes of their own, air defense, shoulder-fired weapons or machine guns.
What they had was old AK’s, Soviet artillery shells filled with fertilizer, Casio watches and Nokia phones. (Oh, and they won.)
When was it retired? I thought it was still in service.
This is the same plane that supposedly couldn’t continuously fire its gun for too long because it would overpower the engines?
Yes, and that’s also coincidentally the same plane with the highest number of friendly fire deaths
Wow…