On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:56:10 -0600, Ignoramus2169
wrote:

On 2016-01-24, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:46:10 -0600, Ignoramus28209
wrote:

They are keeping the A-10 Warthog

http://www.rferl.org/content/us-air-.../27502684.html

Ugly plane that works great

Indeed. The plans to retire it were very stupid. The ugly *******
simply works..and works very well.

If it aint broke..dont fix it (with the F-35)


I would suppose, though, that it would not work as well on
battlefields where it could encounter manpads.

i

The Chinese have been selling discount-house MANPADS to anyone with
the money. They're IR and supposedly are fairly immune to flare
decoys, and they're good for 12,000 feet.

The big question is whether IS has them. If they do, look out.

--
Ed Huntress