Windjammer
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Earlier you said....'' The F16 is truly a much better CAS platform than A10 if people manage to look past the “cool factor” of the A10 or its use after the 90s''.This is not because they like or want the A-10, it’s because the F35 project is delayed and a feasibility study conducted showed that replacing them with more MR fighters or a new CAS would cost the USAF too much, and that a new CAS fighter would be too expensive for the little capability it brings. Back when the F35 project was on track, They were meant to be retired prematurely by 2022. So even these upgrades are not because of the platform being good. USAF never wanted the platform originally either.
Even if say F-35 was delayed, there are plenty of F-15s, F-16s and F/A18s available to USAF, which by your admittance are better in CAS than A-10......why spend $Millions if no $Billions on a so called dead Horse by your standards. Let me remind you the main theme on A-10s is that it believes in giving and taking hard knocks.