The Warthog is a workhorse.
Just curious what you would like to happen.
Save the A 10?
~ Okay, but if that is your position, than ask at what cost?
The 35 is here to stay. There are too many countries involved...11 I believe.... UK, Australia, Skorea, Japan, Israel, Turkey, Netherlands, etc.
OBTW that is on top the fact the AF, Navy and Marines are all in.
As a voter, all I want from my elected officials to do is to stop wasting my tax dollars! Oh, and leave your personal issues at the door.
~ Everytime they fight this, means more manpower hours, more tax dollars spent on reports for them to argue and table the discussion until the next report, while we as taxpayers continue to pay for the 35 with more and more coming on line
~~ Hill will go Operational in the next few months.
~~~ The horse is not only out of the gate, but coming down the home stretch.
~ I don't get the argument. I get the principal, but from a business perspective, and contracts that the DoD has signed with Lockheed, I don't get the fight.
Step back and look at this from a Fortune 500 company expense.
The 35 might not be the best option for CAS, but if you keep the 10, than from a bottom line dollar, what do you keep?
~ They are on the hook and backing out is not only about us, but because we sold it to 11 countries. it is about air superiority/image too.
~~ If our NATO friends buy this airframe, anytime they want to upgrade it, we control it. It is a much bigger picture for air superiority than the average person understands.
~~~ Don't behave Japan, your 35s will not get replacement parts. Can you say Iran and Pakistan for the F16?
Do we save the A 10, and is it worth defaulting on our contract?
How many jobs are tied directly or indirectly to the 35?
~ Do you know what companies make the engines, the computer chips, heck the cockpit seats?
~~ Have you thought about the subcontractors that produce the paint for the 3K+ 35s. US contract only? How about the companies that make the tires? the A10 is not in production like the 35. It trickles down.
There is a need for the A10.
~ The 10 proves they are worthy, but to what extent when we are still talking sequestration, and a 2-3% raise with a commitment for the 35?
I just wonder why our elected officials that want to keep them, can't agree to transition them into Guard units. The F4 was transitioned when the 15E came on board.
Naive, I know!
Flame on me. Yes, Bullet works on the 35, but this is not a job security issue. This is A Scream all you want, but politically we are down in the rabbit hole because 11 other countries bought the 35.
~ Bullet will be fine job security wise.
OBTW, I am a cynic. I wonder if Martha McSally from AZ, did this because John McCain is against the 35.
~ Just wondering since they are from the same state, and the cynic in me believes politics were also a factor.
~~ I voted for McCain in 08.
The 10 is great, but the 35 will be here to stay until 2050 even if you kill it now.