Top Secret: The Arrival of the NEW Super F-22 Replacement
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- The US Air Force decided to divert those funds for research on cutting-edge combat jet designs as part of the NGAD program. The F-22 Raptor fleet will be replaced by this sixth-generation fighter aircraft in the coming years.
The NGAD originates from DARPA's Air Dominance Initiative study in 2014, and is expected to field the new fighter aircraft in the 2030s. The secretive NGAD will then be able to directly fill the F-22 Raptor's air superiority role after the F-22’s siren song, but not on a one-for-one basis.
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00:00 The NEW Super F-22 is Coming
00:42 A Host of New Aircraft
01:53 ROADBLOCKS TO CHANGE
04:38 FUTURE FIGHTER FLEET
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The F-22 is an air dominant plane that never had a war to truly test its dominance.
Be patient, give it a few months...
So far, every interaction it's had has been one where no one knew the f22s were there until the pilots announced themselves.
Yes and I love A10 too and it’s capability
@@adphoenix600 the a10 is the most combat proven airframe in the Air Force.
@@highroller105 yes that is why I love it is badass with the bad attitude
Don't ask the airforce if the A-10 should be retired, ask the army and marines.
My thoughts exactly!
Perhaps the A10 should be adopted by the Army and Marines? The Army use to have an air corps.
This Canadian Veteran for one, am very happy this thing was invented. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
I asked them all and they told me the A-10 should be retired
@@robandcheryls Just like the Tomcat, it’s an amazing plane… Just outdated and would not survive a near peer enemy with air defense. It thrived against the Taliban cause they were throwing rocks at it. That sh*t won’t fly against China nor Russia.
It isn't all about cool looking jets. The capability of the other armed services is just as critical. All branches of the military need to work as one cohesive force to be effective.
Agreed. Whoever rules the skies, rules the ground
Dude it's all about cool looking jets you dumb dumb
U.S.A 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Cohesive but separate.
Give me a group of masters rather than jacks.
Jack of all trades, master of none please don't apply.
Honestly the new plane that’s in the thumbnail and what they want in the future looks so much worse than the F-22
"The NEW Super F-22 Replacement is coming"
Thumbnail: *Shows Darkstar*
The U.S. Air Force and General Brown seem to have a very smart vision for the future of air combat (provided NGAD is a true air superiority fighter and not some jack of all trades master of none aircraft.) Really hope they can see it to fruition!
It seems to me that the F-35 is the jack of all trades, while this new plane has plans to be the closest thing to a master of all plane we can get.
that fancy plane would be for like 2050 or even later so it doesnt really matter tbh
@@killerbern666 it’s coming around 2030
I like his thoughts on A-10s with refreshed airframes and heavily upgraded avionics (they need an AH-1Z level upgrade to remain even remotely relevant!) used in concert with the F-35, F-15E, and NGAD, considering they don't forget about orbit, space is new high ground after all. People keep thinking of the A-10 like it's the tip of the spear when it's not, it's just the stop gap that helps the ground pounders sweep up the mess the high and fast fliers leave behind until it is safe enough for the attack helicopters to show up.
@@anydaynow01 As much as it pains me, the Bone needs to go ASAP along with the A-10.
clairo & i are ready for that avionics space update. we love this. 🇺🇸
"Congress unwilling to retire older aircraft?" That's NOT exactly true. When We The People asked to retain said aircraft (A-10) we ended up giving them new life. That aircraft happens to be cheap and reliable for the current fighting terrain.
They were headed to the scrap heap and thankfully we still have them for a few more years. It was all those airbases that supported them and the neighboring cities. Our Armed Forces are diverse and yet work together. Maybe it's possible to take an F-22 down by a freak accident. Air and ground support would likely prevent that from happening. People who keep coming with F 22 vs XYZ isn't reality. The enemy will also have to fight missiles, F 15s, F 35s, and more. A superior plane doesn't mean a superior force.
Think it's a case that the f22 will destroy sam sites and neutralise the enemy airforce on the ground leaving f15s, f16, f18s and f35s able to operate with impunity
SEAD is the F-35’s job. More likely, the top of the spear would be a combination of the 22 and 35, with the datalink capabilities of the 35 enabling 22s to easily clear the skies whilst it prepares for an air to ground strike.
@@mittens4385 the potential of that data linking and the whole concept of the digital battlefield is astounding basically as far as I can see once an enemy is detected its fired upon maybe not by the f22 or f35 or other assest that detects it but by any other sea, ground or air assests that's in weapons range. That could be an f22 coming across a flight of mig35s or SU27 and they are fired upon by a flight of f15s or a b52 outside the battlefield acting as an anti aircraft missile truck. The same for ground targets.
The Su-25 Frogfoot hasn't done so well in a high threat environment/war in Ukraine. That should be significant warning to A-10 supporters.
@@BV-fr8bf great aircraft when the enemy doesn't have lots of modern stinger missles.
As a person who loves the A-10 it’s time has passed. It’s a sitting duck in the sky.
A lot of people sadly aren't willing to accept that a 50 year old plane is just.... outdated :/
Please do a text overlay of what aircraft you are displaying in the background and where you got the video footage from. Where did you get what looks like possible SR-72 footage from (the aircraft had the Skunkworks symbol on the tail) ?
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
The A-10 is still an absolute beast.
Thanks Sam & Crew @ U.S. M.& N. 👍🇺🇸
I don't believe the A-10 provides "less than optimum utility", and wonder what the mindset is behind wanting to retire it. What other aircraft could replace it?
Missiles are a lot more capable than a gun that you need direct line of sight and direction towards the enemy to fire. A10 was made for a different era of combat and it has largely been made obsolete by technology. A10 was designed in the 1970s, it's 50 years old and close air ground support has evolved since.
A10 has already been largely transformed into a missile platform, but that isn't it's main purpose, planes that are meant to be platforms for missiles are a lot more suited for the job, have better missile compatibility and better software to handle them.
Yes, the A10 goes brrrrrr, it's cool, it's memeable and people love it, but it's costly to maintain for the utility or lack there of that it provides and it's about time to say goodbye to the A10
@@juhotuho10 I agree that it was made for a different time but their still is a use for it. Especially against less evolved army’s
@@ballsonyourmomschin1781 I think just using drones in that situation would be a better option for the most part
@@juhotuho10
Saved a LOT of Marines butt in Afghanistan. In fact the Marines that were saved petitioned the Air Force to give the pilots recognition and medals.
Flies low and slow. A shoulder mounted rocket will take it out. It’s a 50 year old platform and costly to maintain.
I think the marines should've kept half of its first generation F/A-18 Hornet fleet , continue to purchase the hovering version on the F35 and retire half the Harrier fleet
Remember, it’s not the plane, it’s the pilot
It's 20 pilot and 80 Ai
Neural link will change that when it starts recording peoples talents.
@@Calvin28-3 Not even AI really. I mean, look at super/hyper cars these days. Not even close to AI, but the computer assistance makes them massively higher performance than the older, purer cars. I don't consider that a good thing in and of itself, and I'd prefer a purer one, but it's a fact nonetheless. 'Entry level' super-cars can now outperform hyper cars of 15 years ago. It's not because the drivers got massively better or the mechanical bits got better by an order of magnitude or anything. It's that the computer can adjust down-force and apply torque vectoring and braking to keep the car on the road when it otherwise would not.
Not that the mechanical bits HAVEN'T gotten better, they have and that helps a lot also. And the aero. But take the computers out of these cars and they would be dangerous with the kind of power they have now. Even good drivers are starting to let the computer shift, because they hit the red-line so fast that it would just take too much concentration to do it manually when really pushing hard.
It's so expensive to fly and maintain because the program was terminated so early on and they haven't given it certain incremental upgrades that it would have gotten if the program was not cut so short.
Great to watch and learn a little more. If you think about this proposal, what’s being aimed for…. Well from my perspective is a hammer 🔨 situation.
Aiming to upgrade into more in-depth and newer builds (which have not been studied and copied) which hopefully should provide air supremacy with the assistance of the already well balance and diverse air fleet. The current fleet is aimed to streamlined (with the chance of these air craft being moved to other areas in the world if needed to offset the costs of newer aircraft).
So by adding potentially more capabilities to the head of the hammer, they are refining the handle a little to offset the cost yet still able to wield the hammer whilst adding to it. Having air support and dominance is vital in ensuing the troops fighting on your side have a guardian angle watching.
F-22 is still one of the best fighter & it needs only an upgrade sir
There still being upgraded but you have to replace them eventually
Keep up the good work deeply care about y'all technology
God bless the Military-Industrial Complex.
God bless Area51.
God bless the United States of America.
God bless excellent pilots who exist to test these new technological miracles, e.g. Maverick.
that laser in those aircraft are so good that i can make a thermal pulsation nuclear fusion laser weapons for my future aircraft.
Well there's the 5 P's. Preperation Prevents Piss-Por Preformance and helps you avoid a cluster-fuck or everything going fubar.
Whoa that's awesome !!
So how long do you figure that something similar to the Quinjet from the Avengers movies is real? Maybe 10 years? With the apparent push towards STOVL design it’s definitely in the cards.
Defense is not always safe ,knowing there is a competition!
Keep up the good work and i deeply care about y'all technology just want y'all guys to know that
For that future gen fighter, how would it be supercruise capable without the vertical tail fins?
Excellent good design cross section
It’s a good idea but older aircraft like the A-10 still have a place in the way we conduct war and ground attack platforms need to stay that work like the warthog.
We have to have the A10 to pull our troops out bad situations or lose a lot of brave young men. Remember these are still humans that these A10 planes are protecting. BRAVE AMERICAN HUMANS!!!
However unfortunately as i had heard ,psychologically ,after seeing how devastating A-10 can be ,the hostiles have made it a number one priority to shoot at massively and am sorry to say that ground troops seeing the brrrrprakatooowkaboom resonate the combat experience and inevitably ,unwillingly sympathize with the enemy but the subconcious trying to put self in enemy shoes at the awful way to die by cannon holes through the body. Hostility towards A-10 is subconscious
A-10 is legendary but outdated , if the enemy has AA equipment then the A-10 is just a easy big target.
@@averageyoutubeenjoyer9000 what other plane better stands a chance against AA if A-10 aint the one ??? F-22 , Cobra ,Apache ,V-22 ,you guys think new means better in every way but its not the case
Iraq has literally almost 0 anti-air capability. Why do you think A-10 was used a lot there?
The F22 never had a war, but did its part to prevent many wars. They intervened effectively many times in dangerous situations and simply projected our capacity and dominance, that simply scared the would be aggressors. Hey, we have seen "respects" in action! We are proud of its performance.
Makes me want to see maverick again
I like that we are advancing because we need it, but I am glad he is keeping some A10s advancement is great but one emp or solar flare and all the digital shiny planes die instantly. We need to keep some analogy defense in reserve just in case the worst happens.
he wants to change from ~70 years of uninterrupted air dominance
What the airforce should do and needs to do is retire the F-16s. The F-35 was designed from the get-go to replace the F-16.
You want to reduce the Air Force by 930 fighters?
@@Valeron5 bruh, they plan like 2000 f35 so yea they will replace f16s
What I don't understand is why target the F-22 even if it's costly to maintain when it's the more modern plane and has the higher capabilities for security requirements. That's crazy. Retire the old planes that won't survive the current threats by possible near par enemy like China.
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Nothing can replace the A10 close air support platform. Expensive high tech doesn't work in that environment.
I know the a10 is old but I still think it's 🤔 still a great aircraft to keep around..
Love the A10, but it's overrated.
@@Shadow__133 even with air superiority SAMS or literally any portable air defense weapon like a stinger will destroy it
@@-p2349 Indeed. And there are much better alternatives for places where theres air supremacy ensured.
The Embraer A29s Super Tucanos are a more cost effective alternative for CAS. Lightly armored enough for dealing with rebels, drug interdiction, border patrol, precision strikes and small convoys for a fraction of the cost ($1600/hr vs $22000/hr of the A10). The long loiter time and unpaved runway capability are a bonus.
Isn't the country in deep enough debdt already.
Most countries already are!
Ignoring the country's debdt is turning a blind eye to the 🐘 in the room, where's the money coming from, our $ is worth a dime with the more money politicians print.
I like the f 22 link up with fighter drones and scout drones it enhances the f22 capabilities should be thought
Control and ai
Politicians are great at focusing on how to keep their voting and funding bases. Not so good at looking strategically beyond the next election, or in another arena. Field Marshal Monty said a politician has his eye on the next election, the statesman has his eye on the next generation.
Well said.
or the next corporation
Great topic.
Some video clips from Top Gun Maverick. Nice.
Remove legislators from the deciesion making process.
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Give the A-10s to the Marines or, God forbid, the Army (gasp!). Once the NGAD is operational, the F-22s could be sold to close and trustworthy allies.
Never. Some secrets shouldn’t be shared, not even with friends.
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burning butt of a fighter jet looking crazy..
Good job!
You have to constantly upgrade and design new generation jets
Good aerodynamic body design
Right On Go Army!
Retiring the A-10 is not a sound decision. A Fighter Jet that boost the morale of ground troop by the mere sound of its engine makes grunts fight the enemy with zest. The USAF is way beyond advanced and there is no doubt about it. Yet if if it can further more advance it’s technology, adversary will submit itself with out a fight.
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Hopefully the A 10 will be around as long as the B 52. They say it's to expensive to operate but look what the F 35 costs, from purchase to costs of major upgrades. Military always wants new toys. They say the radar signature of the B 2 and F 111 are the size of a hummingbird. If you believe that then I have a bridge in New York I'll sell you. Just send the money to me in Dubai. Make it quick cuz I move occasionally.
Oooooo the Blackstar!!!!
So they just re wing all the A-10’s and then want to mothball em.. thanks a lot says us taxpayers.. fly them until those new wings where out
Same ol same ol. When I hear nothing I know something is up.
I feel real snuggly inside that the US Navy has the F/A 18. Chinese carriers launch stealth fighters. There may be a Tic Tac hiding in those hanger bays
Those aren't Chinese...
Great cartoon, almost looks real.
I agree with upgrading the inventory, except getting rid of the only airplane specifically designed to kill tanks and support ground soldiers.
What a beauty!
Our sustainment to operate at a reasonable rate...huh?
He means viable option day to day ops?
The Ground Attack aircraft should be run in conjunction with the Marines, Army and Special Forces.
The Air forces should focus on Aerial Superiority and logistics with a spattering of CAS. The Navy does that but of course, on Carriers.. Army and Marines, they should operate their own aircraft that has commonalities with the Air Force platforms, but is focused on their needs.
So,times, the Airforce needs to be told that an F-35 isn’t going to be a great CAS platform, but perhaps making the wings a bit wider, more expansive internal bays, larger calibre cannon and potential dual engines, you might have a shot, without smacking out a new airframe and programme and it’s associated tenders.
The threat could be any time, no body know you wait for the threat then that will be too late for military to fight.
US have the power weapons in the world 🌎.
The problem is defense contractors and politicians who decide what’s best for their pockets and the pentagon has to live with it.
1:06 Why my guy just casually mention a NUCLEAR ballistic missiles.... I thought we were disarming?
Velociraptor retired and replace by dominance equiped with nuke and laser.. more speed too ✨🤩
Also the Darkstar
I like to see the f22 evolve
"retire older aircraft"... Hey! you leave my BRRRRRRR alone! A-10 is phenomenal for close air support! god it sounds great when a JTAC calls for one.things get pretty quiet in the arghandab afterwords.
I was under the impression that if the fusion engine in a F 16 is so promising that much of our military fleet would begin to conform to a new propulsion system........
can it also throw thruth bombs?
Never retire any war fighting equipment until you have replacements in service. Never reduce your force until you cah expand, then hole the older equipment for a good time for emergency needs.
The F-22 is already old, about 26 years roughly but of course, it has seen changes and upgrades. Technologies have changed but the whole defense of this aircraft is counting on the enemy not seeing it until it is far too late. Because we make so few of them it has to be vastly superior. What we really need is a stealth aircraft that can eliminate hoards or enemy aircraft because they will always be facing superior numbers. In addition to drone support or even less stealth aircraft with long-range AA payloads to strike from afar.
Yet, nobody else has anything that comes even close to the F-22...
@@gearrazkarraysgyfarnogod8554 That is not 100% correct. Radar and 5th gen aircraft are in development or are in production.
@@gearrazkarraysgyfarnogod8554 the Su-57 says hello
@@Darth1Marik it is not even in the same universe as the F-22. has the war in Ukraine taught you nothing about Russian boasts?
@@zipz8423 Looks like someone doesn't know a thing about aircraft and thrust vectoring. I haven't payed any attention to the War in Ukraine since it does not involve me at all. I highly recommend you do some research about both air craft before making ignorant comments. The Su-57 has nearly the same capabilities as the F-22. In fact it as designed to rival and has a similar design to the F-22. The real kicker are the pilots able to bring out the full potential of the craft?
Let’s face it guys. The A10 is simply obsolete. It’s job can be done by any of the other fighters in the air force’s inventory.
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Guys, I like the A-10 as much as the next guy, but it has never been a reliable or efficient strike aircraft. If you can't admit that, consider the fact that the A-10 has the most friendly fire deaths out of any US aircraft. The pilots will literally use binoculars to find targets. I love the brrrrt, but it's time to let go guys
There is no better or capable aircraft for CAS than the A-10.
@@robertlowry74 thank you for addressing the binocular spotting system and the teamkilling potential of the plane. Now please explain how an A-10 will deliver any payloads in a major war when all major powers would shoot it down before it even entered their airspace
@@mew1023 I didn't addres the "binocular spotting system" because it's shit. That happened by a single pilot almost 30 years ago. Since then, the Warthog has undergone a series of upgrades and enhancements. The notion that the A-10 "has the most friendly fire deaths out of any US aircraft" is also shit. In an article written by the Air Force Times dated Feb 5th 2015 it states "Since 2001, the A-10 has been involved in four friendly fire incidents that killed 10 U.S. troops. The next highest is the B-1B bomber, which killed five soldiers last year in one incident. Friendly fire deaths are exceptionally rare. There have been 45 total friendly fire incidents out of about 140,000 missions flown by the Air Force, Navy and Marines." It goes on to state, "In close-air-support missions in which weapons were dropped in Afghanistan, the A-10 has a slightly lower percentage of civilian casualty incidents per missions flown than B-1 bombers or F-16 fighters. More than 99 percent of the missions in which warplanes attack enemy ground fighters avoid harm to U.S. troops or civilians." Lets close this out with your last statement, "all major powers would shoot it down before it even entered their airspace" What "major power" are you referring to? Russia? China? Russia is far from a "major power," the invasion of Ukraine has shown the world just how week Russia is. They're heavy armor is being towed away by farmers in tractors, their ships are sinking and a country as small as Ukraine with their old retired miltiary surplus has been able to hold off the Russian Air Force. In fact, a once feared ally of Russia, China even swore off support for Russia and left Russia hanging. AS far as the Felon goes, it's a terrible airframe for combat applications. China's stealth programs are no where near the ability of the U.S., but lets talk about the even bigger issue in your statement. Your ignorance of modern warfare. Throughout every conflict the first thing the U.S. and it's allies does is establish air superiority. There's no a single country in the world right now that can stop superiority by the U.S. The F-35's would use their stealth capabilities to target and eliminate ground threats such as SAM sites. Even with its small payload it would use it's data link capablities to connect to missle trucks such as the F-15 EX to eliminate targets. The F-22 would quickly and easily lay waste to the first wave of any aggressors, with the 16 and 15 not far behind. The only thing that would be available to enemy forces to shoot down A-10's would be portable platforms such as the FIM-92 Stinger which we've sold to our "allies." Stingers however were a huge problem for most airframes during the early invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. The USAF wants to cancel the A-10 because they want to dump money into the F-35, which has already proven to not be as impressive as they'd like you to think it would be. The Army and the Marines do not want the A-10 retired without a suitable replacement because there is no better substitute than the A-10, even with it's lack of features held by modern fighters. The solution is to develop the next generation of the A-10, not dump it's responsibilities onto airframes not suited for CAS.
@@robertlowry74 It's an old airplane my dude, it's a flying coffin in modern airspaces sadly. CAS missions are obsolete in the face of guided missiles and smart bombs. If you control the airspace already, why waste fuel and risk pilots flying a non-stealthy aircraft over an active combative zone when you can just send a precision-guided missile to get the job done faster and safer?
@@matthewcarroll2533 it’s age is irrelevant, most 4th gen platforms are “old.” As long as there are boots on the ground there will always be a need for CAS.
one thing i like with the US military is they kept on innovating their armaments to improve their capabilities..
new air dominance fighter without any guns lmao 1:04
Looks like a F117 Nighthawk and a SR-71 blackbird had a child
Why don’t we make a new a10 stealth system designed as a flight of 4 drones to support the next 6th gen fighter. (Fighter would be there to conduct anti air operations)
As a support system it would be capable of carrying long range anti radar munitions or decoys that would essentially take out an adversary radar system. While allowing the drones to stay on target to eliminate priority targets with its main gun.
I dont think that would work at all.... The A-10 was built for close range air support. It did great in afghanistan and around the time it was originially designed, but the main argument against keeping in service aside from costs, is that MANPADS or should launched ground to air missiles made them obsolete similiarly to how the Javelin's are making quick work of Russian Main Battle Tanks.
Modern Warfare isnt anymore so much about having the "coolest" weapons with drones, fighters, etc. The best fighter plane that can exist isnt flyable by a man, Our bodies limit the airframe, the next generation fighter will be a UAV or even an autonomous drone. The tasks youre suggesting are already being filled by the F35 and VERY well at that. It's a great weapons platform, regarding the decoys part, I dont think that would even be something to do. In war, whoever's spotted first, is usually taken out. Hit the enemy wihtout being seen, that's American Doctrine since 1776 and it works wonders, That's what the F35 does. It has JSOWs which are glide stealth drones with a huge warhead, they can strike a target 130km away without a sound and with pinpoint accuracy, STORMSHADOW missiles, These are 1360 kg bombs that have a jet engine built into them and can strike 640km away, and the best one of them, JASSM-ER with a 1000kg warhead uses infrared, radar, laser and GPS targeting data and can hit a target from 1000 km away and is accurate to a 3m radious from target.
Just imagine how insane these weapons are right? Well, these have been in development and from the late 2000's, Your edge is going to be in weapons platforms, not the coolest looking jet.
Do You even understand how inaccurate the main gun of the A-10 is 🤨
Seriously the A-10 had more friendly fire cases than any other f****** jet we have. the f-15ex could carry 30,000 pounds of ammunition the A-10 can only do 16,000 lb . Plus the f-35 and F-15ex no longer needs to point at what they want to shoot
I'm still waiting on my F-19 Stealth fighter.
A stealth A10 jet fighter ? Mmm ??? Naw impossible ! 😆 !! Or is it ? .
Hi SR. I agree. Just the BBBBRRRRRUUUURRRT would give it away.
If a fighter plane can dominate while on the ground, cause your enemies to scramble to create a match, modify their tactics and procedures, and literally scare the bejeezus out of their pilots,.... I would call that an effective weapons platform.. :)
It just needs a radio
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Can you pls make more feature us fighter jets pls
So they are going to make a brand new A10 too another best attack plain
Wait....plans to retire the F22 already?? But keep several 4.5 gen aircraft? What would happen with those F22s if not in the US airforce?
F-22 is incredible but so expensive. Cost roughly 70,000 per hour to fly. Wont retire it till the 2030's. at that point 6 gen should be in air and the F-22 will be 30+ years old
Rejection of the a-10 is not rejection of an aircraft but rejection of a mission by the airforce. The fast mover jocks never wanted to do the ground support mission.
It needs to be maned because if the enemy Jams the signal the Jets would either crash of get shot down. These future fighters should all be manned with maybe unmanned capabilities in case something happens to a pilot AI can take over if need be.
Mo Money.
An A-10 out of service date begins to be plannable when a believable, low RCS, multicarriage, inexpensive, replacement for the AGM-65 becomes available with at least a 50% performance improvement. That missile, the AGM-179B, is not here on the F-35 and all indications are that the A-10, with the JAGM, will be a better low altitude tank hunter, even when it finally arrives.
The F-35 is itself a boondoggle with 12-15% availability and the USAF having essentially written off the early blocks, which it purchased to open Lockheed's order books for export and which it doesn't even want to upgrade to Blk.4 standard, which is where full rate production should have started.
Kill 75% of that inventory effort (1,200 becomes 300) and force the USAF to choose between fully upgrading the existing 250 jet inventory as a DEAD/INT microforce and getting 500 UCAVs while dumping the largest residue inventory which is not the A-10 but the F-16 fleet.
There should be no new-buys at all, until the NGAD gets here. Because the difference in performance is going to leave the F-35 in the dust anyway. Forcing a complete, doctrinal, rewrite of tactics.
Similar selections should be made for the B-1B/B-2/B-52. Two of those airfames need to go BEFORE a single B-21 is bought. We have the C-17 Rapid Dragon capability. And we have the AGM-158B2 JASSM-XR. Three different, legacy, standoff carriers and penetrating bombers makes no sense. Yet we are upgrading all of them.
You're willing to ditch the F-22 but you won't pay for more F-15EX which can do both the ASA F-16, homeland defense, mission. And multirole strike/SEAD equivalents while having a backseater to control UCAVs. With AIM-260, it can also do the Night-1 standoff OCA/Escort role.
Yet you won't ditch the B-1B/B-2/B-52 as lacking in penetration escort and thus being unsurvivable, first night of war.
By your own logic, two of those airframes are more than 50 years old and NEED TO GO, before a single B-21 is bought. 'So that you can begin to retrain ground crews'.
Something that is made especially obvious with the C-17 (X200 airframes) Rapid Dragon capability offering more FNOW standoff capability with 900nm AGM-158B2 JASSM-XR than all 50 each of the other ALCM carriers combined.
Three different standoff carriers and penetrating JDAM bombers makes no sense in a world without SEAD and OCA leadsweep, populated by S-400.
Ground crew manpower is a pathetically small cost increment compared to modern hardware and core aviator training/operations account costs. The problem is getting high-IQ recruits able to handle the gear. Even with a signing bonus, they are paid insufficient military pay to be functional in a modern society and those who are capable, go to tech school to join contract services in the civilian world, not the armed forces.
If you want to be able to pay for ground crews, you need to take every opportunity to shrink the manned fleet and improve benefits on things like housing and cost of living bonuses. Or you need to stop pretending that the air services have integral maintenance and accept outside contractor equivalents as standard.
They at least know how to attract and take care of their people. And charge accordingly.
Basically, it's just always Mo Money and in a world where the U.S. civilian economy hovers on the brink of massive Depression because some senile old duck wants to Go Green!, whether the base load+storage tech supports it or not, it hardly seems appropriate that the world's largest POL consumer wants to add more jets to their daddy warbucks supplier's bottom line.
An F-16 burns about 20,000lbs of fuel on a combat sortie. 7,200 internal, 5,000lbs in tanks and another 8,000lbs sipped off the tanker, coming and going. That's 2,941 gallons of fuel. At 20X3X12 = 720 gallons per year for a car, that's FOUR YEARS of automotive fuel, in a single jet, on a single sortie. For a light weight fighter.
For a B-52, with 312,000lbs or 46,000 gallons onboard, it's sixty three years of refueling a car. For a single sortie, no air to air refueling.
Send the maximum number of manned jets to the breakers at AMARC, _today_.
Tell the pilots they can have some of them back when Biden leaves office in handcuffs and we start having a believable energy policy again.
And tell Mr. Brown that he'd better reconfigure his tacair roadmap around robotic airframes because those can train on a simulator and not lose skill set currencies. The Don Quixotes need to get halved in officer corps size.
If we cannot afford to keep civilian America employed and above the poverty line on cost of living, the last thing we need to do is pay for a military which guzzles avker like a drunk locked in a distillery over a holiday weekend.
I just dont understand WHYwhen one negatively runs mouth about supposedly retirement ,usually its sarcasm being thrown at the AWESOME A-10 ,you cant bully the hellish warthog that the enemy dreads
Is that the dark star from top gun
Military needs rail guns, laser weapons, plasma air superiority fighters, innovative battery contracts, better electricity transfer contracts, and so much more that will be the future of warfare. Eventually plasma will replace fuel as the better method, but before then there will be many obsolete technologies. USA should focus on the transition now, before it’s too late.
Give the A-10 to the Marines. Let air force move on. Makes total sense.
It looks like the one from the new Top Gun movie.