1. it doesn't want to
2. it's very vulnerable in a contested airspace, which is why the DOD is petitioning to have dozens of them sunset over the next few years. They're obsolete tech when fighting anything but goatherders.
yeah i these retards think that the a-10 would go in with the cannon but it would use the hellfires.
don't get me wrong the a-10 is still a piece of shit compared to the f-35 but it's not as terrible as people make it out to be
Yes, and the Su-25 is the most downed airframe in the war. And I haven't updated this chart for a few months.
The Su-25 is also a lot faster than the A-10, and in modern air combat speed is life. The Ukrainians are still using the Su-25 because it's what they have, if they had an alternative they would drop it in a heartbeat. The A-10 would just piss their pilots away with very little advantage gained.
>in modern air combat speed is life
Now you made me imagine a scenario where Japan and SK gave Ukraine their F4s in exchange for some F-35 from the US, perhaps provide us some reenactments of the ho chi minh road around Vuhledar or Bakhmut. A man can dream...
>ruskies and ukros use Su-25 every fucking day
Because they have to.
What do those Ukrainian Su-25s do? Pitch up, fire unguided rockets and fuck off back home while releasing flares.
yeah i these retards think that the a-10 would go in with the cannon but it would use the hellfires.
don't get me wrong the a-10 is still a piece of shit compared to the f-35 but it's not as terrible as people make it out to be
>yeah i these retards think that the a-10 would go in with the cannon but it would use the hellfires.
You mean Mavericks. I don't think it was ever hooked up for the Hellfire system.
The issue with using Mavericks or Hellfires is that you still have to fly at certain altitude for your camera or laser designator to see the target. It's great when you can just orbit around the target area to lase the target, but you'll eat a SAM trying to do that.
Because the following erection would pull all our blood from the brain to the dick. With severe brain damage being inevitable, many of us might become susceptible to Russian propaganda.
the governments plan is to retire these planes while secretly mothballing them to be used against american insurgents over control of statesota. Also nanobots or something I dunno, I'm tired and I've got alot of shit going on in my personal life I need to deal with
IIRC Ukraine doesn’t even want them. And they are correct. Without some other platform to clear the way for them they aren’t useful. Basically if you can peel back the majority of air defence in an area with SEAD then the a10 can mop up extremely well, but without that it’s just not going to be useful. I’m not one of those “the a10 is garbage “ people, but it does in this day and age have a pretty narrow area that it can shine in
The air force has been trying to get rid of it for decades, but can’t because of retarded politicians and the mouthbreathers in the army offering to take it.
You need total air superiority to use those things like in Afghanistan.
Beyond that they're only good as a suicide squadron to assist a total aerial invasion by accidently intercepting missiles meant for the C-130 carrying paratroopers and dying while dispersing it's cannon upon an AA site.
Please list all the crew combat casualties incurred while in an A-10
you don't operate A-10s without SEAD/DEAD and absolute air superiority
Russians haven't cared to fly over Ukraine since what? Last June?
https://i.imgur.com/nNV3shP.jpg
>Literally engineered to kill Russians
Why doesn't the US donate 50 of these out dated hunks of junk to Ukraine.
Because we just spent a billion dollars upgrading them to the latest avionics and integrated combat fire control systems and we don't want ukie monkies using that
>Gib answer to something that can't be answered because the plane was only used on friendlies and civilians >Therefore this is the most superior fighting plane in existence >Ignore the requirements needed to use the plane like on the swaths of militia in Afghanistan
Your brain on HRT.
Because the truth is that they aren't outdated when properly supported just like tanks and giving them to the Ukes would end the war too quickly for everyone to make money.
Reminder that Congress forced the US navy to try and reintroduce battleships to the fleet not too long ago. The budget is set by crayon eaters. A-10 support does serve as a reliable idiot radar.
The A-10 was designed during the cold war to blunt Soviet armour thrusts. It was basically a kamikaze bomber in it's original intended role.
You have to use A-10s like we did in Iraq in 1991.
Even then expect half your fleet to get damaged.
"In January 1991, as more A-10s arrived, Lt Gen Horner, Brig Gen Buster Glosson, head planner; and the two A-10 Wing commanders, agreed the aircraft could additionally be used for ‘battlefield air interdiction’ sorties. This was usually the task of F-15Es and F-111s. The ‘Warthogs’ were to concentrate on Iraqi artillery positions, which could have wreaked havoc on advancing coalition ground forces, when the land war started."
"Also, during the first 24 hours of the air campaign (which began on January 17), the ‘Hogs’ sat alert, ready to strike Iraqi artillery had chemical weapons been used."
"The final set of targets were the most surprising with A-10s tasked to attack Iraqi early warning radars and the Nukhayb Intercept Operations Centre. They flew deep into Iraq and hit others close to the Syrian and Jordanian borders with eight-to-ten hour missions not uncommon. These highpriority targets needed to be destroyed in the initial wave of attacks, so later raids could penetrate Iraqi air defences undetected."
"Those first night attacks were extremely successful. The radar heads were struck, mostly with Maverick missiles and each site bombed and strafed. The strikes earned the Warthogs the further humorous nickname of ‘Wart Weasels’, based on the ‘Wild Weasel’ name for American aircraft used to suppress enemy air defence systems."
donate your sister first
1. it doesn't want to
2. it's very vulnerable in a contested airspace, which is why the DOD is petitioning to have dozens of them sunset over the next few years. They're obsolete tech when fighting anything but goatherders.
>They're obsolete tech when fighting anything but goatherders.
Realistically speaking it's not even a threat to goatherders at this point.
>it's not even a threat to goatherders at this point.
It is, there are just more cost effective aircraft.
Explain. Less effective than other options doesn’t mean not a threat
ruskies and ukros use Su-25 every fucking day
yeah i these retards think that the a-10 would go in with the cannon but it would use the hellfires.
don't get me wrong the a-10 is still a piece of shit compared to the f-35 but it's not as terrible as people make it out to be
Yes, and the Su-25 is the most downed airframe in the war. And I haven't updated this chart for a few months.
The Su-25 is also a lot faster than the A-10, and in modern air combat speed is life. The Ukrainians are still using the Su-25 because it's what they have, if they had an alternative they would drop it in a heartbeat. The A-10 would just piss their pilots away with very little advantage gained.
>in modern air combat speed is life
Now you made me imagine a scenario where Japan and SK gave Ukraine their F4s in exchange for some F-35 from the US, perhaps provide us some reenactments of the ho chi minh road around Vuhledar or Bakhmut. A man can dream...
>mfw fat aircraft
>ruskies and ukros use Su-25 every fucking day
Because they have to.
What do those Ukrainian Su-25s do? Pitch up, fire unguided rockets and fuck off back home while releasing flares.
>yeah i these retards think that the a-10 would go in with the cannon but it would use the hellfires.
You mean Mavericks. I don't think it was ever hooked up for the Hellfire system.
The issue with using Mavericks or Hellfires is that you still have to fly at certain altitude for your camera or laser designator to see the target. It's great when you can just orbit around the target area to lase the target, but you'll eat a SAM trying to do that.
Because the following erection would pull all our blood from the brain to the dick. With severe brain damage being inevitable, many of us might become susceptible to Russian propaganda.
>tfw everytime you get hard, the Russians are winning
Are there even 50 operational airframes at any given time?
why is the USAF so opposed to any sort of light ground attack replacement?
bro they just bought two propeller driven attackers - the sky warden and the super tucano
>how come a very rich country doesn't want to put its highly-trained pilots in sub-par aircraft?
But they're already putting their pilots into A-10s
>light ground attack
this is potentially going to become the realm of unmanned aircraft
you don't operate A-10s without SEAD/DEAD and absolute air superiority
Because they're fucking dogshit meme planes.
the governments plan is to retire these planes while secretly mothballing them to be used against american insurgents over control of statesota. Also nanobots or something I dunno, I'm tired and I've got alot of shit going on in my personal life I need to deal with
>saved for future use
get some sleep
write a plan
take a deep breath
it's all gonna be ok
IIRC Ukraine doesn’t even want them. And they are correct. Without some other platform to clear the way for them they aren’t useful. Basically if you can peel back the majority of air defence in an area with SEAD then the a10 can mop up extremely well, but without that it’s just not going to be useful. I’m not one of those “the a10 is garbage “ people, but it does in this day and age have a pretty narrow area that it can shine in
You forget that you can drive the A-10 and attack tanks on the ground with the plane
Because they kill too many Russians at one go and you need to draw it out
Ukraine doesn't want them
The A-10 is so shit even the ukies don't want one.
Can't believe that the burgers are still keeping this garbage plane around
The air force has been trying to get rid of it for decades, but can’t because of retarded politicians and the mouthbreathers in the army offering to take it.
They will get raped by AA.
It was engineered to kill Soviets and other members of the Warsaw Pact.
The only reason we had a beef with USSR is that it was dominated by Russian savages.
USSR was dominated by garden gnomes not Russians
Tell me how many garden gnomes were in power after 1937 purges.
>USSR was dominated by garden gnomes not Russians
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>why wont they send dozen or so X!? its good!
always the most retarded threads
You need total air superiority to use those things like in Afghanistan.
Beyond that they're only good as a suicide squadron to assist a total aerial invasion by accidently intercepting missiles meant for the C-130 carrying paratroopers and dying while dispersing it's cannon upon an AA site.
Please list all the crew combat casualties incurred while in an A-10
Russians haven't cared to fly over Ukraine since what? Last June?
Because we just spent a billion dollars upgrading them to the latest avionics and integrated combat fire control systems and we don't want ukie monkies using that
>Gib statistics on crew survivability in plane primarily used on Civilians and on friendly forces.
Your brain on HRT.
>lose argument and suffer humilation
>screech about trannies
You're doing great champ keep it up
>Loses argument
>projects
Your brain on HRT
Just answer the fuckin question numb nuts
>Gib answer to something that can't be answered because the plane was only used on friendlies and civilians
>Therefore this is the most superior fighting plane in existence
>Ignore the requirements needed to use the plane like on the swaths of militia in Afghanistan
Your brain on HRT.
>Only used on friendlies and civilians
Do you have any data to back that up?
Why don't you fuck off and die in a fire?
Gibmedats deserve to be slaughtered.
Because the truth is that they aren't outdated when properly supported just like tanks and giving them to the Ukes would end the war too quickly for everyone to make money.
It will be an escalation to which Russia will react with its nuclear option.
They offered but the Ukrainians didn't want them. They would have been useful against the 40 mile convoy but not much elsewhere.
this piece of shit will explode and embarrass usaf
Reminder that Congress forced the US navy to try and reintroduce battleships to the fleet not too long ago. The budget is set by crayon eaters. A-10 support does serve as a reliable idiot radar.
The A-10 was designed during the cold war to blunt Soviet armour thrusts. It was basically a kamikaze bomber in it's original intended role.
This flying pile of shit would end up killing more friendlies.
You have to use A-10s like we did in Iraq in 1991.
Even then expect half your fleet to get damaged.
"In January 1991, as more A-10s arrived, Lt Gen Horner, Brig Gen Buster Glosson, head planner; and the two A-10 Wing commanders, agreed the aircraft could additionally be used for ‘battlefield air interdiction’ sorties. This was usually the task of F-15Es and F-111s. The ‘Warthogs’ were to concentrate on Iraqi artillery positions, which could have wreaked havoc on advancing coalition ground forces, when the land war started."
"Also, during the first 24 hours of the air campaign (which began on January 17), the ‘Hogs’ sat alert, ready to strike Iraqi artillery had chemical weapons been used."
"The final set of targets were the most surprising with A-10s tasked to attack Iraqi early warning radars and the Nukhayb Intercept Operations Centre. They flew deep into Iraq and hit others close to the Syrian and Jordanian borders with eight-to-ten hour missions not uncommon. These highpriority targets needed to be destroyed in the initial wave of attacks, so later raids could penetrate Iraqi air defences undetected."
"Those first night attacks were extremely successful. The radar heads were struck, mostly with Maverick missiles and each site bombed and strafed. The strikes earned the Warthogs the further humorous nickname of ‘Wart Weasels’, based on the ‘Wild Weasel’ name for American aircraft used to suppress enemy air defence systems."