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by Tad_Ghostly
3924 days ago
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Speaking of prop aircraft... Related article [0]: The WWII-Era Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money (link bait-title) You might be interested in this article about the A-29B program. The Super Tucano can provide superior ground support, it is very cheap to produce and maintain, and the US military could have gotten a lot of them out in the field quickly. They're being built now and will be used in the Afghan and Iraqi militaries, but the Pentagon preferred to put all of their money in the F-35. [0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/low-and-slow |
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But the reason the Pentagon didn't purchase was not because of the F-35, but because Congress wouldn't let them defund the A-10, which the A-29 replaces. DoD isn't going to pay for two CAS/COIN aircraft, so the A-10 remains.