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Air Force Moving Forward With A-10 Replacement Option

WASHINGTON — The Air Force is moving forward with a key step in developing a dedicated close-air support plane to replace the A-10 Warthog, a top general said Thursday. “My requirements guys are in the process of building a draft requirements document for a follow-on CAS airplane,” Lt. Gen. Mike Holmes, the deputy chief of…

WASHINGTON — The Air Force is moving forward with a key step in developing a dedicated close-air support plane to replace the A-10 Warthog, a top general said Thursday.

“My requirements guys are in the process of building a draft requirements document for a follow-on CAS airplane,” Lt. Gen. Mike Holmes, the deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements, said. “It’s interesting work that at some point we’ll be able to talk with you a little bit more.”

via www.defensenews.com

One has a sneaking suspicion that Air Force is using the draft process to write a paper that will doom A/X to the staff process, whereupon the staff will then say that the F-35 will fill the bill well enough.

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Responses to “Air Force Moving Forward With A-10 Replacement Option”

  1. Quartermaster

    If you consider a suspicion that’s yelling and pounding on the door a sneaking suspicion, I guess it’s a sneaking suspicion. The Air Force General Staff isn’t a group to trust CAS to. They don’t like the job and never did. You won’t get them to like it, even though that was part of the deal for an independent USAF.
    Since they have repeatedly violated the agreement, it’s past time to fold all TacAir back into an recreated Army Air Corps. To put the final point on their idiocy, give the USACC back its song as well. The strategic transports and bombers can stay in Strategic Command, a joint command traded around between the Navy and Army.

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  2. Nah

    “Since they have repeatedly violated the agreement”
    They have not violated the agreement. The Air Force has done very little else but CAS since 1947 – and most of the other stuff they’ve done also supports the Army, e.g., interdiction and intra-theater airlift.
    What the Air Force supposedly “wants” to do and “likes” to do – air-to-air combat and strategic bombing – has been a tiny fraction of their actual operational activity since 1947.

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  3. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    Never understood the parting of the Army Air Corps but for the brusque LeMay.

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