Popular Mechanics: Watch the A-10's Possible Replacements Fly From a Dirt Airstrip
The Air Force’s light attack fighter may have to operate from some pretty austere conditions.
The A-10 Warthog has to fight in some dusty, dirty places, and its successor will need to do the same. The U.S. Air Force knows its partial replacement for the A-10 might someday have to operate from dirt airstrips, and so USAF just flew two of them, the A-29 Super Tucano and the AT-6 Wolverine, from a dirt air strip in New Mexico.
The test comes in startling contrast to the stealthy, sleek image the Air Force often projects. It's also a reminder that future wars will take place in dirty places.
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WNU Editor: Just an impression ..... I am sure that these planes will be effective in providing ground support, but they do not look as intimidating as an A-10.
2 comments:
I don't understand the push to retire the a-10. Modify, update it, but don't retire it. These planes looked like sh** in comparison. They lacked the nose gun that made the a-10 so fearsome, and kind of reminded me more of a privately owned puddle jumper than a war machine I should run from. Could these planes take a round without falling apart?.
If looks could kill. Oh yeah, with the A-10 they do.
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