RE: Russia and Ukraine
January 25, 2023 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2023 at 7:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A little more than a month ago congress finally allowed the dod to retire two dozen planes, and they've been trying to retire the a10 (and get newer more expensive replacements) every year for years. The thing truly does refuse to die. That means that two dozen have just become available. There are 200 some odd left in service that dod would also like to shake loose. I don't think that anyone, even ukraine, believes that they're a match for functioning russian air defenses. They're still better at what ukraine wants them for than anything ukraine has, and ukraine is using worse shit to do what they'd like to be doing in a10s, if they could have some.
The f16 is a multirole, yeah, the worlds most successful multirole fighter, or so it's claimed. IMO, it's a bit like the abrams/leo thing. I'd pick the f16 over the a10 like I'd pick the leo over the abrams. Why choose though, amiright? Vlad the Miscalculator is going to keep lobbing missiles at housing block lobbys until ukraine has one of every available weapon system in the world, apparently. Weapons manufacturers will be keen on sending their stuff because you just don't get natural experiments like this very often. In one very important sense, russias various bits of military adventurism are a running product demo for their kit - and this is basically a commercial that got out of their control and may hurt their exports.
The f16 is a multirole, yeah, the worlds most successful multirole fighter, or so it's claimed. IMO, it's a bit like the abrams/leo thing. I'd pick the f16 over the a10 like I'd pick the leo over the abrams. Why choose though, amiright? Vlad the Miscalculator is going to keep lobbing missiles at housing block lobbys until ukraine has one of every available weapon system in the world, apparently. Weapons manufacturers will be keen on sending their stuff because you just don't get natural experiments like this very often. In one very important sense, russias various bits of military adventurism are a running product demo for their kit - and this is basically a commercial that got out of their control and may hurt their exports.
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