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Watch the A-10 Movie the U.S. Air Force Doesn’t Want You to See
Official film praises the same jet the flying branch wants to retire
The U.S. Air Force has practically begged Congress to allow it to retire its roughly 300 A-10 Warthogs, those venerable twin-jet attackers that saved countless soldiers’ lives in Iraq and Afghanistan—and which recently returned to Iraq to help battle Islamic State.
The flying branch argues that the new F-35 stealth fighter is an adequate replacement for the low- and slow-flying Warthog—and the Air Force should spend its money buying F-35s instead of maintaining the A-10s and their unique 30-millimeter cannons.
In fact, the F-35 is too fast, too flimsy and years away from front-line service. But the Air Force has its mind made up. And as part of its campaign to kill the A-10, the flying branch has declined to release a short documentary that its own public affairs practitioners produced about the Warthog’s lifesaving missions in Afghanistan.
But we got our hands on a copy of the film, via an A-10 advocacy group on Facebook and the American Daily Independent newspaper. It’s low-resolution and names and faces are blurred out, but you’ll get the point when you watch it above.
pointed out recently, “The USAF is harder on internal ideas than it is on evil insurgents.”
to keep the A-10s at least through 2015.
Puiden latvojen yläpuolella lentäminen onkin ainoa mahdollisuus pysyä hengissä kun vastassa on vihollinen jolla on tehokas ilmapuolustus ja ilmavoimat. Sillä korkeudella vaan on hankala tähystää ja ampua. Se että kone palaa reikiä täynnä takaisin tukikohtaan ei tarkoita onnistunutta reissua, kone on automaattisesti poissa käytöstä, ketään ei voi edes pakottaa lentämään rikkinäisellä koneella, enintään jos on joku vapaaehtoinen.
2000-luvulla A-10 toimii vain matalan uhan kohteita vastaan, se ei olisi ollenkaan kustannustehokas Suomessa. Vihollisen panssarikolonnat tuhotaan nykyään esim. näillä http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1393562170376 ja paljon kustannustehokkaammin.
So, the powers that be say that the A-10 is vulnerable over the modern battlefield. They speak as if this plane was designed to fight a counterinsurgency in permissible airspace in the first place.This is total, unequivocal nonsense. The A-10 was designed to fight in the ultimate of hostile air combat situations, over the forests and valleys surrounding the Fulda Gap, against a the crushing force of a westward advancing Soviet military. Basically, the A-10 was designed to fight World War Three and survive long enough to have an impact on what would be the world's most deadly battlefield.
With modern integrated air defense systems being proliferated throughout the world, ones that can fuse multiple types of disparate sensor data into a common tactical picture, high-flyingmanned stealth fighters will become less and less of a relevant concept for infiltrating and surviving over enemy airspace. Once again, the A-10's low level capability may give it a decisive edge for battlefield interdiction when compared with the F-35, especially if laser countermeasure systems were to be installed throughout the A-10 fleet. In other words, the A-10 may have a better chance of surviving the threat of infrared guided short-range surface to air missiles while flying low over enemy territory than the F-35 has flying stealthily at altitude in hopes of sneaking past long-range radar guided missiles that are being supported by a "data-fused" network of various radars operating at different bandwidths.
Beyond the F-35 comparison, if the low flying, armor encrusted A-10 is vulnerable to modern threats, how on earth is a high-flying and thin skinned F-16s or F-15s, or especially the Army's AH-64 Apache attach helicopters, supposed to survive this theoretical combat environment? If the answer is jamming and electronic warfare, then the A-10 can be equipped with any system that F-15, F-16 or AH-64 can be paired with.
Combining the A-10's low altitude combat capabilities and the latest in self defense jamming and electronic warfare, including towed decoys, as well as taking into account the Warthog's extreme ruggedness, the A-10 is really the most potentially survivable non-stealth aircraft in the entire DoD's inventory.
Two squadrons of A-10 Warthog attack planes scored a military record in Louisiana in March, shooting down unprecedented numbers of “enemy” aircraft during an intensive war game.
The March 9 to 26 exercise pitted Army units and the supporting Air Force squadrons against JRTC’s highly-trained Opfor. Firing lasers instead of live rounds, the two sides battled on the ground and in the air. Opfor uses Lakota helicopters painted to represent Russian-style gunships.
And in the course of their counter-attacks, the Warthogs shot down a record number of Opfor aircraft—presumably the Lakota gunships. The Idaho and Louisiana squadrons “now hold the Green Flag record for the most air-to-air kills,” Waring boasted.
Mitä voisi tehdä että A-10:llä olisi tehoa ja mahdollisuuksia hienoimpia hävittäjiä vastaan? Häivytettyähän sitä ei saa millään mutta voisiko sitä kompensoida käyttämällä massiivista kantokykyä vastatoimiin. Joku tehotutkapodi? Sidewinderiä ja AMRAAMia koko alakerta täyteen? Jos vihu meinaa tulla lähitaisteluun niin nokka vain sitä kohti ja leikitään sitten "chickeniä". Meinas unohtua; parasta olisi tietysti että niitä A-10jä olisi aina monta per vihu. Onko parempi ostaa kallis parhaushäivehimmeli vai monta iskunkestävää purkinavaajaa? Mene ja tiedä.
No joo, kunhan heittelin ajatuksia. Hieno kone silti.
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