Could A-10 get a comeback with a similar weapon?
>>64755694>blitzfighter with FAS characteristicsSend it
>>64755694Not really. A-10 is for skullfucking an enemy force that has been thoroughly SEADed and Wild Weasel'ed. Despite all the success of Buk breaking and S-400s getting droned, Ukriane is still an AA/A2A nightmare. Unless you turn the A-10 into a drone, there is no reason to train Ukie pilots use it instead of Su-25s.
>>64755694>Could A-10 get a comeback with a similar weapon?America can just build proper cruise missiles to drop from F-16/15/18/35 instead of this hobo variant
>>64756054what distinguishes the geran-5 from a "real" cruise missile?
>>64756120precision, range, lethality, ability to evade interception or get shot down by a pkm on a truck, etcimagine pretending that """geran""" is anything but iran-tier last ditch weapon for terrorizing residential areas.
>>64755694Are they just gonna re-invent the cruise missile.
>>64755694The entire point of the A-10 is the 30mm. If you don't need the 30mm you can use a better platform.
>>64756205Geran drone can even shotdown planes and chopers before hit the target. Is time to acept the new reality.
>>64756279>canRussians have been strapping AA missiles without any success on those drones, just made each sneedhead far more expensive since you're strapping $200k missile on top a $100k drone getting shot down by $5k drone
>>64756120Being designed and built by Russians.
>>64755694Is that a tenga on top?
>>64755694>A-10Why not load the A-10 with >multiple 19-round Hydra 70 rocket rocket launchers, each rocket fitted with APKWS targeting>APKWS targeting pod, >couple of AIM-9L for big targets, >couple of Maverick for armored targets?>JDAM just becauseA-10 has 11 hardpoints. That's a lot of flexibility. Combined with loiter time, it seems like A-10 + APKWS would be a natural for drone removal in rear areas.
