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  1. Sturgeon

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    Strange!
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    Well you do need to have discord.
  3. Sturgeon
    Are you talking about AAFSS?
  4. Sturgeon
    2 much 4 u, you groveling swine!
  5. Sturgeon
    bah! as if you'll find another!
  6. Sturgeon
    Oh c'mon, you gotta play fair!
  7. Sturgeon
    Is that your soundtrack for urban exploration?
  8. Sturgeon
    ah yes assured you ukranitian government already know of deals, no need 4 u to call an verify!
  9. Sturgeon
    I also think like, the A-10 has really twisted around people's ideas about what CAS is supposed to be. Close air support is ordnance delivery in close proximity to friendly forces. That's it. We now have this idea that it means some flying turd hovering around a platoon getting JTACs commands and brrrrting at anyone who looks funny. This is a hyperspecific artifact of the way CAS was conducted in the GWOT. But a 'Chief flying in at 800 miles per hour and dropping bombs on enemy positions and then zooming off is CAS, too. A B-52 dropping a JDAM from 35,000 feet onto a ground lased target is CAS, too. CAS is not just "that thing the A-10 does".
  10. Sturgeon
    This is irrelevant to the question of the A-10, and it also isn't clear to me that in the case of CAS you get a different answer with either premise. The reason it's irrelevant to the A-10 is that the A-10 doesn't exist as a "repository" aircraft, it exists to pretend to be a helicopter so that Congress doesn't take away scope from the USAF's mission-budget holdings. The USAF (circa 1965) doesn't care about CAS that much, it cares about any kind of tactical air being given to the Army, which it sees as a first step towards the Army being able to recapture scope that was split off from it in the 1940s. And you look at what the Army was playing around with at the time, and it's pretty clear that the A-10 exists primarily as a physical "lid" on the Army's tacair capability. In other words, the Army cannot have any aircraft as capable or more capable than the A-10. That's pretty much its entire purpose (even if no one person was thinking exactly that, there's a reason these things shake out this way). Now why do I think the domination/repository models don't get you a different answer? Well, simply because fighting wars requires methods of conduct which use assets and which together are based on doctrine. So whether you think of the Air Force as a "battlespace dominator" or as a "plane battery" is irrelevant. It is a battlespace dominator that requires a plane battery and both are subservient to the doctrine. Which one has "primacy" does not change the math. I could maybe conceive of a structure where that did change the math, but it would have to be very tortured indeed to apply to CAS.
  11. Sturgeon
    Confirmed, the A-10 Threshold is below the Ju 88
  12. Sturgeon
    please achieve more than 8 years of age before posting on this forum
  13. Sturgeon
    We are friends, yes? I make special deal, very low price for you!
  14. Sturgeon
    yes
  15. Sturgeon
    The most remarkable thing to me about the A-10 is how popular it is in Washington. It is an aircraft dumb enough for Congress to understand (and it reminds them of the biplanes of their childhood), so they keep pushing it. And there's enough "turd polishing" grift there for the USAF to go along. Grunts love the A-10 because it's just as helpless and pathetic as they are, so they feel a strange solidarity with it. Plus, really any air support is welcome.
  16. Sturgeon
    The Pentagon is the largest building in the world, from Washington to Timbuktu.
  17. Sturgeon
    Mac is one of the most impressive bloggers of our era and really does a bang up job every time he puts fingers to keys. I've referenced him many times. The A-10 is junk. We should have scrapped them in the '80s, certainly in the '90s after their dismal failure in the Gulf, and bought Tucanos and A-7Fs.
  18. Sturgeon
    Ah yes, the AFIT "cope" paper. I've read it many times, very little of it holds up under any kind of scrutiny. It was, you might say, "sausage making".
  19. Sturgeon
    Works for me https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/09/15/russias-10-warthog-su-25-rook-attack-jet-gun/
  20. Sturgeon
    I haven't watched it, is it based and FailHog pilled?
  21. Sturgeon
    This is somewhat incorrect, it's managed to carve out some fixed wing stuff only recently.
  22. Sturgeon
    Yes this is correct.
  23. Sturgeon
    Yeah it is, the Su-25 is a much smaller bird, more appropriately sized. It's... kind of just better, as an airframe.
  24. Sturgeon
    The Su-25 is also substantially smaller, and cheaper to operate.
  25. Sturgeon
    I detail how superior the Su-25's gun is in this article: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/09/15/russias-10-warthog-su-25-rook-attack-jet-gun/
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