{"id":25577,"date":"2013-09-19T00:20:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T03:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25577"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:45:00","slug":"a-10-on-the-chopping-block-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/19\/a-10-on-the-chopping-block-again\/","title":{"rendered":"A-10 on the Chopping Block. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budget constraints have made senior Air Force leaders start openly talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20130917\/NEWS04\/309170038\">retiring the venerable A-10<\/a>, again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hostage said he had already talked to Army officials about losing the A-10 and using other jets to take over the close-air support role. The Army was \u201cnot happy\u201d about the possibility, Hostage said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every decade or so a push has been made to mothball <!--more-->the Warthog, which was originally designed as a tank-killer for the eastern-European theatre.\u00a0 At one point there was even talk about the Army acquiring the A-10s if the Air Force cut them.<\/p>\n<p>The F-35 is ultimately supposed to replace the A-10 (and the F-16), though the F-16 was supposed to replace the A-10, as well.\u00a0 Why didn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Bluntly, nothing can do what the A-10 does as well as it can.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget constraints have made senior Air Force leaders start openly talking about retiring the venerable A-10, again. Hostage said he had already talked to Army officials about losing the A-10 and using other jets to take over the close-air support role. The Army was \u201cnot happy\u201d about the possibility, Hostage said. Every decade or so a push has been made [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[332,134,88,5285,2],"class_list":["post-25577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-air-force","tag-army","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}