The Pentagon may have cheated in the A-10 vs. F-35 fly off

LTC (Join to see) Of course they did... Handicap the A-10 and give all advantages in the testing criteria to the F-35.

Let's have a true runoff contest for the CAS mission where it counts: On the Battlefields of Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan!! See which one's the Army ground pounders and the TAC Air Controllers really prefer. Long loiter time (on station for 3-4 hours), maximum ordinance to destroy Jihadi's OR on station for 1 hour or less (sometimes much less depending on where they can refuel) with limited ordinance or machine-gun rounds?

No contest: The A-10 would beat the F-35 everyday of the week and twice on Sunday in the CAS mission. Everyone knows it!

You know, not for nothing, the A-10 was built by Fairchild Republic Aviation, which was right up the street from my wife and myself, near where !y undergrad college was till it got torn down and a Walmart replaced it (oh, well)...when I was being recruited, I actually got to meet one of the USAF active duty engineers assigned there for about an hour once...when Fairchild went bankrupt eventually, what happened, I'd read, was that, apparently, the executives apparently kept an 9-9 or O-10 waiting for about somewhere an hour, and he apparently was unthrilled, which wound up that the whole place got shut town (there's a mall with a move multiplex there now, we drive pat it almost every day, just like the Walmart, oh, well, once again)...at least, that was the story I'd read back ten, for whatever it might be worth, back when dinos, !astodons, and pterodactyls strode the planet...when my Dad got off active from Navy, the school he went to for his associates in heating and air conditioning, Jed tell my next younger brother and myself he'd drive past the small airport next door as all the turbopro0 planes, or radial prop planes, in the late 50s, were being flight tested, he'd see them taking off as he'd drive past going to the college, where I'd taught one semester as an adjunct a lon, long while later, for one semester, before my total perm disability, I never gt to teach there permanently, though God knows I'd tried...I just figured that might all lend a somewhat more personal context to he whole thing, I just figured being as the places were built up the street from us, you might all get a kick out of hearing the story, if nothing else, you know?

The F35 is unsuited for the A-10 role