re: House votes to save A-10 fleet

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They should build a new, improved platform around that gun.

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Instead of flying worn out A-10s? I agree!

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But, no - they wanted to get a cheap version of the F-22 for ground support (which it will be terrible at - except, maybe, delivering JDAMs)

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You know that's from the lips of congresscritters. A fast mover won't ever be effective CAS. Anyone with any sense knows better. It's another "Grubering."

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Rather than field a real combat platform to fight real wars the way we've really been fighting them for 20 years, they want all this gee whiz, pie-in-the-sky, prohibitively expensive $hit.

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No love for Apaches? IMHO, much better for real time CAS.

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It won't be long before the Army requests ground support and USAF says, "Sorry - we just don't have the platforms."

Close them down then - or limit them solely to Air/Space Superiority

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We are shutting them down already.