{"id":63944,"date":"2016-01-21T10:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63944"},"modified":"2016-01-21T10:17:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T15:17:15","slug":"air-force-retires-plan-to-retire-a-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63944","title":{"rendered":"Air Force retires plan to retire A-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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3E9 sends us a link to the Defense News<\/a> which reports that Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General David Goldfein claims that the world has changed since the Air Force last decided to take the A-10 Thunderbolt, the Air Force’s flying tank, out of the inventory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happens is that life gets in the way of the perfect plan,\u201d Goldfein said. \u201cSo when we made the decision on retiring the A-10, we made those decisions prior to ISIL, we were not in Iraq, we were coming out of Afghanistan to a large extent, we didn\u2019t have a resurgent Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelving the A-10 retirement plan is a key policy shift that the Pentagon will reportedly lay out next month in its fiscal 2017 budget request, according to a Jan. 13 Defense One article.<\/p>\n

Top officials had already hinted the Air Force could push off retirement of the A-10 by a few years to meet commanders\u2019 demand for the close-in attack plane, beloved by troops for the distinctive roar of its Gatling gun. The service needs more close-air support to protect troops on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, and for the possibility of missions in trouble spots, such as Libya or Yemen, according to Air Combat Command chief Gen. Herbert \u201cHawk\u201d Carlisle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can count three times in the last three decades that events have saved the A-10 – mostly because there’s nothing on the fightline to replace the ugly, effective creature. By the way, we don’t love the Warthog because of the sound of the Gatling gun, we love it because it kills bad guys in droves and it has no equal. Just the sight of the aircraft scares the life out of it’s perspective targets and raises morale of the good guys on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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