It can't be because of age..the B-52 is 20 years older and we still use them. It can't be because of effectiveness in close air support...it has no match. What other plane carries a 2.5 ton 30 mm forward shooting Gatling gun?
IMHO, this is a really stupid move....a REALLY stupid move!
Pentagon To Scrap Warplane The Islamic State Fears The A-10 Thunderbolt - Investors.com
Pentagon To Scrap Warplane The Islamic State Fears
The venerable A-10 Warthog, designed to stop Soviet tanks, and the perfect weapon to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State, as President Obama promised, faces a budgetary chopping block.
We have noted the irony of how Obama was going to war against the Islamic State with weapons systems he had scrapped, ending the production runs of the F-22 Raptor and Tomahawk cruise missiles. They were dismissed by the administration as relics of the Cold War even as Russia was rearming and trying to reassemble the old Soviet Union.
IMHO, this is a really stupid move....a REALLY stupid move!
Pentagon To Scrap Warplane The Islamic State Fears The A-10 Thunderbolt - Investors.com
Pentagon To Scrap Warplane The Islamic State Fears
The venerable A-10 Warthog, designed to stop Soviet tanks, and the perfect weapon to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State, as President Obama promised, faces a budgetary chopping block.
We have noted the irony of how Obama was going to war against the Islamic State with weapons systems he had scrapped, ending the production runs of the F-22 Raptor and Tomahawk cruise missiles. They were dismissed by the administration as relics of the Cold War even as Russia was rearming and trying to reassemble the old Soviet Union.