… so is the Gerald R Ford, but both, okay one of them, and not the Aircraft Carrier, are fucking shit up near the Straight of Hormuz this week.
I was surprised to see the A10 was being used as well, but don’t care enough to look-into why. I’m sure it boils-down to the fact they have nothing to replace it with for CAS yet, not in sufficient quantities with properly trained pilots anyways.
Super-Tuscano was the best fit(or closest to acceptance?) last I heard, and the Air Force brass hates it for a lot of the reasons it hates the A10, namely, its not a digital drone-with-a-captive-baby-sitter set to cost untold billions, drag-on-un-finished-for-decades, and get Senators/Generals tonnes of juicy kickbacks.
oFf tHe sHelF, PrOvEn hArDwArE Is wHaCk, yo. AlL My hOmIeS KnOw “cYbEr”-wAr aNd vEnDoR LoCk-iN ArE WhAt tHe wArFiGhTeRs oF ToMmOrOw nEeD, tOdAy.
A10s are limited to flying over iraq targeting militias there (with jdams/sdbs) last time i’ve checked. any of more modern jets can carry enough SDBs to last for all CAS needs, there are also heliborne APKWS and hellfires. nobody needs brrrrrt these days
I just can’t believe what a shit-job they’ve done getting the GAU-22 firing straight on the F35, with no other options besides missiles or rockets for AA. At least the F4 Phantom was committed to its bit, and didn’t magically fuck-up previously-solved problems.
go to bed grandpa, A2A is missiles these days, with APKWS for shahed hunting (19 per pod. F15 can carry four). (not rockets (unguided)) if you want to use guns against them for some reason, then whatever it is must be slow to be practical, and guess what, we already have a tool for that: it’s called helicopter. there were two F16 lost in Ukraine when they tried to shoot down a shahed with a gun iirc, they were damaged by shahed fragments. no reason to get too close when sidewinders or APKWS exist
Low as the ammo-count on the GAU-22 is, its almost a hundred times the potential missile load-out. A pocket-portable net launcher is approaching as useful as any of this shit, but please, continue with how out of touch I am versus USAF procurement methodology. Spinning the AirForce off from the Army was a mistake, although I guess having not-quite-as many Generals as F35s is better than having an excess of Admirals versus ships.
You mean Super-Tucano or there is some other airplane there that I don’t know about?
If so, I’m not sure how much the US airforce will trust it after Trump started talking about bombing Brazil. Or if it’s still available for selling to them.
You’re right, I misspelled it, and wtf did you just say to me? BOMBING BRAZIL!? Jesus, fuck, how long has that wound in reality been a thing?
I know limiting myself to Lemmy, fark.com, and the horror-show that is my facebook feed, is not the best way to stay in-formed, but that’s a zinger on-par with being unable to refute being called a sibling-fucker. Not enough to make me feel too bad for anyone that would apply to, but wow… I need to puke now.
F-22’s biggest aerial victory to date is shooting down some chinese balloons, while it’s siblings are living life in that godawfully named “operation”
Thanks! But isn’t the A10 retired?
… so is the Gerald R Ford, but both, okay one of them, and not the Aircraft Carrier, are fucking shit up near the Straight of Hormuz this week.
I was surprised to see the A10 was being used as well, but don’t care enough to look-into why. I’m sure it boils-down to the fact they have nothing to replace it with for CAS yet, not in sufficient quantities with properly trained pilots anyways.
Super-Tuscano was the best fit(or closest to acceptance?) last I heard, and the Air Force brass hates it for a lot of the reasons it hates the A10, namely, its not a digital drone-with-a-captive-baby-sitter set to cost untold billions, drag-on-un-finished-for-decades, and get Senators/Generals tonnes of juicy kickbacks.
oFf tHe sHelF, PrOvEn hArDwArE Is wHaCk, yo. AlL My hOmIeS KnOw “cYbEr”-wAr aNd vEnDoR LoCk-iN ArE WhAt tHe wArFiGhTeRs oF ToMmOrOw nEeD, tOdAy.
A10s are limited to flying over iraq targeting militias there (with jdams/sdbs) last time i’ve checked. any of more modern jets can carry enough SDBs to last for all CAS needs, there are also heliborne APKWS and hellfires. nobody needs brrrrrt these days
I need brrrt for emotional support :(
I just can’t believe what a shit-job they’ve done getting the GAU-22 firing straight on the F35, with no other options besides missiles or rockets for AA. At least the F4 Phantom was committed to its bit, and didn’t magically fuck-up previously-solved problems.
go to bed grandpa, A2A is missiles these days, with APKWS for shahed hunting (19 per pod. F15 can carry four). (not rockets (unguided)) if you want to use guns against them for some reason, then whatever it is must be slow to be practical, and guess what, we already have a tool for that: it’s called helicopter. there were two F16 lost in Ukraine when they tried to shoot down a shahed with a gun iirc, they were damaged by shahed fragments. no reason to get too close when sidewinders or APKWS exist
Low as the ammo-count on the GAU-22 is, its almost a hundred times the potential missile load-out. A pocket-portable net launcher is approaching as useful as any of this shit, but please, continue with how out of touch I am versus USAF procurement methodology. Spinning the AirForce off from the Army was a mistake, although I guess having not-quite-as many Generals as F35s is better than having an excess of Admirals versus ships.
You mean Super-Tucano or there is some other airplane there that I don’t know about?
If so, I’m not sure how much the US airforce will trust it after Trump started talking about bombing Brazil. Or if it’s still available for selling to them.
You’re right, I misspelled it, and wtf did you just say to me? BOMBING BRAZIL!? Jesus, fuck, how long has that wound in reality been a thing?
I know limiting myself to Lemmy, fark.com, and the horror-show that is my facebook feed, is not the best way to stay in-formed, but that’s a zinger on-par with being unable to refute being called a sibling-fucker. Not enough to make me feel too bad for anyone that would apply to, but wow… I need to puke now.
Since about the 2nd day of the Iran war, when they decided to call some criminal gangs in Brazil “terrorist organizations”.
He mentioned it a couple times, as a treat (not a threat) to the Brazilian government. I remember he did the same to Mexico last year.
Not really