More Marine Aerial Antics
In article . com, "David
E. Powell" wrote:
Marines should get RATO boosted A-10s. They could launch them with
catapaults or roll them off aircraft carriers with engines and RATO
with reduced loads if need be, and use full loads on land strips. They
would have to be Navalised, but modern innovations could save weight,
like some panels being carbon fiber instead of metal. As long as they
kept the tweaks practical and didn't go into contractor overload, they
could get a nice plane pretty quick. They could mix them in with
faster movers for fighting planes if they have to do so. They could
also rig an AMRAAM option if they felt they needed it, along with the
existing AIM-9 and Stinger options. A modernized A-10 would do a lot
for air to ground assets, and the USMC were strong advocates for
keeping the Warthogs around in the late 1980s, and it was good that
they did. The plane's still around and is still useful.
YGBSM....
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Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur
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