Thread: F-22 Raptor, What the hell are we doing?
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Muck View Post
Now I'm as big a fan of the A-10 as the next guy but take a look at the various fratricide incidents from CAS & BAI missions since Desert Storm. The A-10 is disturbingly & disproportionately represented in those numbers. Now without knowing exactly what percentages of missions are carried out by the warthog vs other aircraft it's hard to say where the problem lies but it is something that is worth looking at. My personal (anecdotal) experiences tend to back up those negatives numbers and I know a lot of Marines & British soldiers who don't want the thing anywhere around them for similar reasons.

Now I'm reasonably confident that most of that potential problem relates to the antiquated avionics in the A-10 and the upgrade program should go a long way to alleviate it.
Perhaps there were so many friendly fire incidents because this (A-10) is a weapons platform shuffled of to the USAFR, Fine pilots for sure, but no where near the hours flying with ground troops in exercises. Add to that the "my radio don't talk to his" bull [censored] that has been a known probelm since D-Day 1944 and is still not resolved to the best of my knowledge. Now that's some serious inter-service rivalry nonsense that should have been settled long ago.
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