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Big announcement today on the Next Generation Air Dominance system prime between Boeing and Lockheed. It'll be announced anytime, but it looks like Wall Street thinks it's Boeing.
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This is very possibly the last manned tactical fighter put out by the Air Force. Kind of wild to think that the duration of manned fighter combat will be about 150 years.Comment
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Of course it's named F-47. Is the plane as big as Trump's massive ego?Originally posted by YOhio View Post"...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
"You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
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Probably just congress people on the appropriations committee and their cronies and family members..Originally posted by Bo Diddley View PostComment
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Skynet?
A system without fatigue. A leader without corruption. A mind without fear.Comment
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Yay! The most unique, practical, durable aircraft in the USAF lives on. I don't understand why this platform is always on the chopping block when there's no suitable replacement.Comment
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That is cool.
That thing has been around forever. My mother's uncle was one of the main designers of the A-10. He was incredibly proud of that fact and he could carry on about it all the time when he came to visit."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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“Every player dreams of being a Yankee, and if they don’t it’s because they never got the chance.” Aroldis ChapmanComment
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I love the A-10. Its even more impressive when you are on the receiving end.
When I was a young LT, - on my first field problem after joining the 3/187 Inf as CESO- some warthogs found my antenna farm and did "strafing runs' on them. They were cleared down to 50 ft and where right in the tree tops. When you are the receiving end, that 30mm looked like an 8 inch howitzer!!!
Hill AFB is the depot for them and you see them flying around here occasionally
The Air Force has been trying to get rid of the A-10 almost since the day it was deployed - not "sexy" enough!
Every time the AF proposed it, the Army basically says "if you don't want to fly them, we will" and the AF backs down.
Basically the Air Force doesn't want to do Close Air Support(CAS)
When I was working F-16 structures, the AF proposed replacing the A-10 with a F-16 with a 30mm gun pod slung beneath it. The gun literally shook the F-16 apart. The whole idea was scrapped really quickly
My brother tells the story of when he was at a joint school with a bunch of AF types, he overheard a coversation between 2 AF Majors. They basically said that if the Army would plan their battles better they wouldn't need CAS
I may be small, but I'm slow.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."Comment
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A year or so ago I spent some time with an A-10 maintenance group and left with a similar souvenir (Red Bull included for scale). 70 of these 30mm rounds per second. Such an incredible weapon.Originally posted by Copelius View Post
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