A-10s in Poland prove they can land anywhere

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This aircraft was designed for war
Since Monday, four A-10s from the 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron have practiced landing at a Polish airfield at Nowe Miasto that has been decommissioned for years. The runway itself is old and cracked, and conditions at the former Warsaw Pact airfield are spartan.
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Aawww poor USAF having Spartan facilities, no pizza place or PX there.....my heart bleeds for them [:D]
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And the USAF wants to dump them so they can use F-22's & B-2's to go after ISIL's technicals... [8|]
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No, they want to dump them because they are old and maintenance costs are increasing. They are great for operating over areas without any IADS but wouldn't last a second in a war against an adversary with a modern air defense system. I love that old pig but it's time to go. between parts, pilots and maintenance, it's just not cost effective when precision munitions allow CAS from any altitude.
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They're old because they stopped producing them. And to my point, ISIL has no modern air defense system. Precision munitions is only part of the equation. If your point is that using F-22's and B-1's or (someday) the hypothetically capable F-35 is a more cost effective option that an A-10 for what we are doing now in Iraq and Afghanistan, then we are not going to agree.

The air force has been intentionally killing off the A-10 for years in favor of more expensive platforms.. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/at-what-point-does-the-usafs-war-against-the-a-10-becom-1685239179

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The B-52 is more than 50 years old and it's still doing it's job. Spend the money. There is no reasonable replacement for the A-10.

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why did they retire the douglas A-1 skyraider
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Total Aside... Captain, I know you have a lot of free time ... [;)] .... Please put out a remake of Flight Commander 2 God, how I loved running my A-10 squadron through the first Iraq war in that game...
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ORIGINAL: Tazak

why did they retire the douglas A-1 skyraider


I know that Sandys flew throughout the Vietnam War.. I THINK that the A-10 was its successor, although not direct, time-wise...
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Swamp have a look here

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Thanks for posting that Jim!

Jeez, a one man show. I hope that he can get that to release!
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Agree Swamp, love to see that come to fruition but its been up there a long time.
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I'd love to see someone make a game along those lines, tho. I'm not into sims, but I like the strategy, and FC2 had some role-playing elements also... Just a great game for its time!
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