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Subject: The Air Force Now Plans To Keep The A-10 Warthog Flying Indefinitely
Date: 28 Oct 2016 12:35:26 -0700
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reliable as the tide and endearingly indestructible and incredibly effective.
Strategists have feared that the jet will be axed in favor of funding the F-35,
but the U.S. Air Force recently confirmed that it plans to keep the A-10 flying
operating expenses to feed the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the people in charge
are now planning to keep the plane running.
While the beancounters and product planners are trying to push the A-10 off the
board, Materiel Command is going to keep on keeping the planes in peak
and over again.
availability rate from 2014 to 2015, and the Air Force seems to keep postponing
its demise.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is supposed to be a do-it-all combat aircraft that
can engage other planes in the sky, make long-range bombing runs and come in low
it lightly, and so far its effectiveness in any of those roles has yet to be
big part of the reason the plane is so beloved by servicemen and women.
To embattled soldiers on the ground, the only sound more reassuring than an
this plane already.
The F-35 on the other hand, has established a reputation of being over budget
and underperforming.
the strategy will be; that discussion continues to go on and I think it always
will as we look at the fact that our demand signal for our airplanes continues
As it stands on paper, the A-10 fleet is apparently slated to start standing
down in fiscal year 2018 and parked in boneyards by 2020. But Secretary Deborah
To that end the Air Force is said to be in the process of putting new wings on
its fleet of A-10s under a $2 billion contract with Boeing that was written up
in 2007 and supposed to keep the planes going to 2028.
2018 budget and a defense policy bill that includes a provision to keep the A-10
active. Specifically, Arizona Republican Rep. Martha McSally wants to put one
last barrier between the A-10 and retirement: a jet-vs-jet flyoff against the
F-35.
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