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Ideally if you're using CAS it's because you can use it. Your same argument could be used against radar stations which are vulnerable to artillery or bombing, or radar missiles.
Yes, I know. Most of that is just political jargon.
The point is you don't send ground attack craft into places that are riddled with SAMs without having a way to deal with it. You have to win that part of the battle first, and we can't always afford to send fighters when they are spread thin. You send your expensive high tech fighters to where they are needed, while your other aircraft do the job that they can. That doesn't change jus t because it's officially a war.
That's not how A10s are used in real life. Mostly they're Forward Air Control today; improved AA guns and harsh lessons learned in the second Gulf War mean they're rarely used for overhead strafing anymore. Today's A10s are usually used as Forward Air Control, or used to fire missiles such as the AGM-148 from a couple of kilometres away.
The close-range support role is mostly given to the Apache gunship now. And airstrikes are mostly done by F16s and F/A18s, which have exactly the same possible loadouts and can be on station a lot faster.
All of the above will be replaced by an upgraded B52 "Arsenal Plane" in the near future. This will essentially be a modernized AC-130 with a huge array of missiles and the ability to direct swarming drones. It'll fire over the horizon, like an aerial battleship.
Pretty much, A-10 cockpits are made out of titanium so they're highly durable and can withstand 23 mm cannon rounds.
Awhile ago, when the JSF program (Joint Strike Fighter program) was new, they were considering on replacing a number of aircraft including the F-16, Harrier, A-10, F-18 with the F-35... but they soon realized that it wasn't a wise decision and there was no way that such a plane could fulfill the role of these aircraft, much less the A-10 itself. So, they changed their minds on it.
The A-10 will be around for a long time considering what it can do.
Speaking of, the F-35 was just a money and time sink.
Yes, many countries still used such aircraft up until the '80s. But like I was telling this one guy earlier in the thread, planes are a totally different story from other kinds of hardware. It is much more likely to make a plane obsolete than it is any other kinds of hardware.
So for example, some tanks, regardless of era can be viable in certain instances but planes of those same eras aren't (usually, depends on type).
It's relatively common in the Middle East to have seen these relics still fighting, there's pics of even FT-17s leftover from WWI that are out there.
With that said, for firearms, even some of those old ones from WWII and WWI are still being used.
With the new wings, they are expecting to keep the A-10 flying through the 2030s. Why? Due to the troops on the ground and others needing what it provides compared to the F-35 and the Super Tucano whose bomb loads are limited as well as loiter time.
If you throw A-10s against tanks with 2K22M/2S6M escorts losses will be staggering, unless the A10 fights exclusively with missiles at standoff ranges. A10s that try to come close enough to fire their cannons are inside the 2K22 gun range, plus they also have their SAMs. China has similar systems.
Just because the aircraft isn't bleeding-edge doesn't mean it's outclassed. It was never designed for air combat, and was designed to carry payload and countermeasures designed to neutralize and eliminate Ground Forces particularly armor and transports. It's probably not going to be a front-line assault vehicle anymore for the neutralization of ground targets, but it certainly can be deployed to neutralize large number of non high priority targets such as emergency troop movements or to cut Supply chains while some more advanced Tech that you prefer can be used in high value targets. The Hogs not going to be a ground combat star just like the Apache won't, but they both still have vital an important role since they can easily be upgraded.
just a thought.
Some people still favor the F-22, because it has such a high maneuverability in midair and it's great in a dogfight, but here's the thing: we don't dogfight anymore. What we do is acquire a target lock from miles out using advanced sensors, fire a missile, wait for it to hit, and you've got yourself a confirmed kill. Modern aeronautical combat has moved past dogfighting.
Long gone are those days, where planes would circle around each other in a deadly duke-it-out duel suspended thousands of feet above the ground, just waiting for the other pilot to make the slightest mistake in near-impossible twists and turns for the average man, all the while a constant awareness on their own instruments telling them how close they are to death.
Frankly, it's barbaric.
While the result is still the same in the end, with that being a dead enemy, modern aeronautical combat is much more sophisticated nowadays. Those early jets like the Meteor or that tiny little German deathtrap piece of plane engineering would be demolished instantly against any modern air force of the world.