My rant/fantasy regarding the A-10(A&B) Warthog.

DDHvi wrote:

... The budget defers the A-10's final retirement until 2022.

Great, they shouldn't be retired at all, without a properly designed replacement available.

MAD-4A wrote:Great, they shouldn't be retired at all, without a properly designed replacement available.

Oh they have a "replacement" alright...
Don´t you know the F-35 can do ANYTHING with the outmost perfection?

http://www.brickmania.com/a-10-warthog/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild ... _II#Future
On 2 February 2016, it was reported that the Air Force had deferred the final retirement of the aircraft until 2022 after being replaced by F-35s on a squadron-by-squadron basis.

See? I told you they were going to replace them with F-35s.

They're going to replace everything they can with F-35's.
Or drones.

They'll start on tanks soon.

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Tenshinai wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#Future
On 2 February 2016, it was reported that the Air Force had deferred the final retirement of the aircraft until 2022 after being replaced by F-35s on a squadron-by-squadron basis.

See? I told you they were going to replace them with F-35s.

That wiki is out-of-date. There has been a lot of waffling and double-talk since that Feb 2016 report. The latest I've heard is that the Depot Maintenance lines for the A-10 have been restarted; implying that the scheduled replacement has slipped enough to run a significant portion of the fleet past routine depot-level maintenance.

Weird Harold wrote:

Tenshinai wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#Future
On 2 February 2016, it was reported that the Air Force had deferred the final retirement of the aircraft until 2022 after being replaced by F-35s on a squadron-by-squadron basis.

See? I told you they were going to replace them with F-35s.

That wiki is out-of-date. There has been a lot of waffling and double-talk since that Feb 2016 report. The latest I've heard is that the Depot Maintenance lines for the A-10 have been restarted; implying that the scheduled replacement has slipped enough to run a significant portion of the fleet past routine depot-level maintenance.

Uh, yes if you looked at the wiki page, that is referred in the next sentence after what i quoted, so no it´s not out of date, you didn´t look.

"In October 2016, the Air Force Material Command brought the depot maintenance line back to full capacity in preparation for re-winging the fleet."

It´s not like i´m going to copy paste the whole section when it´s so BIG.

Annachie wrote:They're going to replace everything they can with F-35's.
Or drones.

They'll start on tanks soon.

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Well, that would be a simple way of making USA militarily toothless while stile costing an arm and a leg...

Weird Harold wrote:

Tenshinai wrote:
That wiki is out-of-date. There has been a lot of waffling and double-talk since that Feb 2016 report. The latest I've heard is that the Depot Maintenance lines for the A-10 have been restarted; implying that the scheduled replacement has slipped enough to run a significant portion of the fleet past routine depot-level maintenance.

Uh, yes if you looked at the wiki page, that is referred in the next sentence after what i quoted, so no it´s not out of date, you didn´t look.

"In October 2016, the Air Force Material Command brought the depot maintenance line back to full capacity in preparation for re-winging the fleet."

It´s not like i´m going to copy paste the whole section when it´s so BIG.

Whatever. So long as they keep the bloody thing in inventory and in service.

Speaking as a sailor ... too bad it doesn't have a tailhook. (That's the best complement I can come up with.)

robert132 wrote:Whatever. So long as they keep the bloody thing in inventory and in service.

Speaking as a sailor ... too bad it doesn't have a tailhook. (That's the best complement I can come up with.)

With the way they´re built, a tailhook would be an easy addition.

I´m not sure how serious it was but i read about the USN ( or was it marines?? ) trying to get some A-10s for itself, but apparently the army didn´t want to share their toys and blocked the attempted buy politically(they didn´t want the 2-seat allweather variant to go into production).