This 1973 war is why the Air Force thinks the A-10 can’t survive in modern combat.

[Fieters]

http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/1973-yom-kippur-war-is-why-the-air-force-thinks-the-a-10-cant-survive-in-modern-combat?

[KansasCS]

The U.S. Air Force is much larger and has many more planes at its command. That means that it can field more specialized aircraft. F-35s and F-22s can support ground forces near enemy air defenses and go after missile sites and other fighters while A-10s or the proposed arsenal plane attack ground forces from behind the F-22 and F-35 shield.
This isn’t to say that the Air Force is necessarily wrong to divest out of the A-10 to bolster the F-35. The Warthog can’t stay on the battlefield forever. But if the A-10 has served its entire career in the post-Yom Kippur world, it seems like a shallow argument to say that it couldn’t possibly fight and win for another 5 or 10 years after nearly 40 successful ones.


quod erat demonstrandum


Die USAF möchte einfach nur nicht in eine Unterstützerrolle gesteckt werden.
Die machen lieber ihregut aussehenden ästhetischen airstrikes fernab der Bodentruppen und fühlen sich gut dabei.
Funktioniert nicht immer. siehe Operation Rolling Thunder. (https://www.google.de/search?client=firefox-b&q=%C3%A4sthetisch&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihoN3W8IbOAhXQKCwKHTRiB9MQBQgbKAA)