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Posted by: flamedude
I love how its an old attack plane that was going to be phased out..... but eventually the military higher-ups realised that having a really tough slow plane was a good idea. I'm sure I read that they wanted F-16s to take over from A-10s but they were just too fast to allow pilots to react to what was going on below on the ground.
Also they can fly with half a wing missing, an engine missing, half the tail surfaces missing, both main and secondary hydraulic systems nonoperational.
The A-10 was designed to destroy Russian tanks in the Fulda gap in Germany and Europe. Also the F-16 can't really fit its role.