On 8/23/2014 9:48 PM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
On 8/23/2014 5:19 PM, jon_banquer wrote:
On Friday, August 22, 2014 5:59:32 PM UTC-7, Rex wrote:
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 10:04:00 PM UTC-5, jon_banquer wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l73IyO1Qdqo



Cool. Loves me some Warthog


It's a national treasure. The Air Force wants to kill it:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the...-bu-1562789528


This airframe should be kept. I'd say a wing of them for special ops.
They are special and maybe 30 kept with the 270 or so kept for parts.
Keep troops trained as pilots and ground advisers if needed.

Simply cost effective. If a central American country goes wacko or some
people within do it might be just the trick. A billion dollar machine
that flies to fast and can't turn or hide isn't needed.

Seems like they, the DOD, thinks we can fight a war sitting on our sofa
waiting for updates.

Martin


Personally, I think the entire fleet should be transferred to the Army.
They LOVE that ugly thing.
At least the guys on the ground do.

Air Force still seems to want billion dollar super jets.