ONE BY ONE, THE AIR FORCE KEEPS PEELING OFF PLANES FROM THE A-10 WARTHOG FORCE. IMAGE SOURCE: NORTHROP GRUMMAN.
Motley Fool: Air Force Reneges on A-10 Warthog Commitment
"2022 final retirement" turns out to be more fiction than fact.
Two months ago, A-10 Warthog supporters were cheering. Now the cheers have fallen silent.
In a Feb. 2 speech in Washington, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter committed the U.S. Air Force to postponing "final retirement" of the A-10 Warthog fighter-bomber "until 2022," putting an end to years of contentious debate over the future of the aircraft -- and that of the Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) F-35 stealth fighter meant to replace it. As Carter explained, the A-10 will be replaced "with F-35 Joint Strike Fighters on a squadron-by-squadron basis, so we'll always have enough aircraft for today's conflicts."
Fans of the A-10 cheered Carter's announcement as a victory for the A-10, for common sense, and for economics. (The A-10 is one of the cheapest planes to operate in the U.S. arsenal.) But now it appears they may have celebrated too soon.
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WNU Editor: Guess what .... they lied .... cough cough .... correction .... they just played with the truth.
1 comment:
The brass is as committed to keeping the A-10 as John McShame and the political class is, when promising to build a border fence as part of amnesty package.
When the heat is on they give lip service to the former and will get the latter come Hell or highwater.
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