Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Friday, September 15, 2006 9:56:33 AM
Ollie North is
correct. The military and unfortuantely congress has a bad tendancy to try to justify the newest, most costly military systems by getting rid of weapons systems that are still very effective.
I wonder how many of us remember that the Air Force wanted to leave the A-10's home from the first Gulf War, not because they were ineffective, but because it wanted to promote the F-15 to congress as a ground attack weapon. Fortunately, that war was run by the Army. If I remember correctly, one A-10, flown by an AF Reserve pilot took out almost an entire battalion of Iraqi tanks on a single mission. Other than with a small nuke, that is a performance no F-15 could begin to match.