Just a gentle reminder

>MUH COMMIES
US has now more commies than formerly commie countries. Former heads of CIA and FBI were self-admitted commies. Seethe moar.

A-10 is still the aircraft with the highest Blue/Blue rate in history.

psst: the correct term is "loiter time"

"linger time" sounds weird

>he thinks any thread on Jow Forums is worth saving

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>in history.
Somehow I doubt this. WWII korea and Vietnam had some heinous blue on blue.

eat me cuckold

Who gives a fuck?

based emma poster

There’s literally a thread that posits this up right now.

F18 >f35>a10 when it comes to cas. I mean the 35s are probably better but I'm just biased.

Maybe five year olds OP. But most Jow Forumsommandos have read a book or played Cockadoodie and understand the concept.

Is this bait?

Even as a fucking child shitting my pants I didn't visualize it as the first panel.

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Then why are you even browsing this board, you hypocritical waste of life? Piss off and go take a stroll if you hate Jow Forums so much.

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Whay does combined arms mean? Why dont we feed SEALs mackrel? How big is a V-22s nest? How many eggs does it lay?

What is the reason to call it CLOSE air support these days?
You wouldn't request them to fire far from the target intentionally would you?

>killing americans
Nothing wrong here.

more incidents of friendly fire, sure, but a few volleys of .50cal just doesn't compare to the flying holocaust that is an A10 strafing run

>the guys overthrowing democratically elected socialist governments were communist

big think

Combined arms is when you attach a gun to another gun, like mounting an M203 on some schmuck's M4 so his gun weighs 12 lbs and he has to carry a bunch of heavy-ass grenades in addition to all his other shit.
We don't feed SEALs mackerel because the bioaccumulated mercury and pesticide runoff would make them combat ineffective.
Trick question: V-22s don't build their own nests, they just crash wherever, and their clutch size depends on how many Marines they've been able to eat.

No one claimed what your meme image said they were claiming in that thread. Being pro A10 does not mean " I think the aircraft skims the ground for CAS". Maybe you thought this once and assume others are as retarded as you.

There actually are good reasons to engage at low altitudes. For one, it's harder for radar guided missiles to track you.

But strictly speaking, your image is correct. You're not flying low due to the mission being close air support. You fly low because YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO MISS WITH A CAS MISSION and being closer to a target with give a small boost in accuracy.

>being closer to a target with give a small boost in accuracy
"The A10 is good because flying low enough to get hit by small arms fire allows you to drop a laser-guided bomb with 1 sq ft precision instead of 1 sq yd precision"

Imagine thinking the F-35 is good at CAS. Then again we all know you’re some faggot LockMart shill who thinks if he shits up the board enough nobody will notice that the F-35s computer systems crash more than a Windows XP laptop.

Why wont the F35 be good at cas?

This has been posted several times prior, with the exact same image and exact same post content.

Which matters in urban combat when combatants might be only yards apart.

youtube.com/watch?v=oxvmrmLYbls

youtube.com/watch?v=DaZ5stbVAlk

youtube.com/watch?v=EHMbkKi-QYo

Surprisingly good range for gun runs.

>You should have seen the last time we had this thread/every time the F-35 bashing starts

The F-35 is a shit CAS plane because it attempts to incorporate Stealth technology in its frame design. This means munitions must be stored internally because underslung munitions increase the radar signature. The internal bays mean it can only carry about two bombs. Comparing it to the A-10, which was designed for CAS work shows how fucking awful it is. The A-10 can linger longer, have a tighter orbit pattern and carry far more munitions per flight. The gun on the A-10 is just a cherry on top for more flexibility when approaching tasks. This convoy of ISIS combatants ranged between 500-700 vehicles. youtu.be/ciYa4yPUBTw Tell me how effective a F-35 would be compared to the A-10 when approaching this task.

The F-35 cannot do the CAS role, its just not designed for it. This specific kind of mission needs a plane tailored for it like the Super Tucano or the A-10. Having awful planes doing CAS means other tools like the Apache will be leaned on heavily for jobs it should not be engaged in.

Yes, the F-35 wasn't designed for CAS. It's more of a raider, appearing out of nowhere to hit a target and vanishing before retaliation arrives.

A B-1 would be better but B-1s are huge fucking planes that are harder to deploy. Pretty sure you can't launch one from a carrier.

F/A-18s are a good compromise and we've got a fuckton still in service.

dont you have a jazz record to make, Pierre?

You can still have external stores on the F-35 if you want to use it for CAS in low risk areas. If it was carrying the guided 70mm missiles it probably could have wrecked that whole convoy.

I see, so this must be some special F-35

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>the only way anyone could possibly hold a different opinion than a random Jow Forums poster is if a gigantic corporation specifically paid them to do so, as if it mattered to them what some unemployed 20-something incel thinks about their plane

Kek.

Closest one on YouTube, any closer...
youtu.be/r4zm5duK3hY

RIP Nicey

Higher running cost, less ordinance capacity if running in stealth configuration, and if not running stealth configuration why the fuck would you use it over the cheaper alternatives like the F-15E and F-16 or dedicated CAS platforms like the A-10 or the Super Tucano? You wouldn’t and shouldn’t.

>underslung munitions increase the radar signature
which will still be lower than a conventional 4th gen jet carrying external stores
>The internal bays mean it can only carry about two bombs
they're developing slimmer bombs to increase the carrying capacity, try to keep up
>Comparing it to the A-10, which was designed for CAS work shows how fucking awful it is
The A-10 does CAS worse than the F-16, but go off I guess

>That's a nice stealth profile you got there
>Be a shame if...somebody put some external weapons on

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any other non-stealth aircraft will also be carrying weapons externally and thus have an even greater RCS than a F-35 with external stores

Speaking of which, F-35s literally need windows laptops to connect to them via a really shitty USB connection in order to download data files after each flight. This is then transmitted back to Lockmart using.... Internet Explorer only webapps.

>actually admitting to wanting to use Chicom-compromised Google nonsense

Embarrassing!

how about we use the even more appropriate term "play time"

>how about we use the even more appropriate term "play time"

I prefer "Cuddle Puddle" myself

haven't seen that in any pubs