So what's gonna replace this thing?

>>29531294
No direct replacement. The CAS role is taken up by a variety of multiroles carrying PGMs, like they already do.

>>29531294

Option 1: Job done by cheap turboprops: A-29 Super Tucano or OV-10 Bronco (or drones)
Option 2: Job done by current aircraft (AH-64/F-15E)
Option 3: Job done by future aircraft (F-35/B-21)

The Air Force will do everything they possibly can to weasel their way out of funding a dedicated CAS aircraft.

>>29531343
Super Tuc or Bronco are for COIN. It's not quite the same as the A10.

>>29531392

What exactly do you think the A-10 does nowadays?

>>29531387

Thank god. Let's hope they succeed.

>>29531294
Nothing. We will be BRRRRRRRTing in space a thousand years from now in these.

>>29531294
The a-10 from arma.

>>29531343
Option 4: Some combination of all three.

No single plane can replace the A-10 because no plane that isn't an A-10 can ever be an A-10.

Yes, that was a double negative. No, I don't give a fuck. Why? Because BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTT

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Hopefully, OV-10X Bronco.

Realistically, as other anon's have stated, it will just languish in power point purgatory and never get a replacement.

Also, see: >>>29525004

>>29531479
>>29531508
>BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTT
Check your phone, I think you got a message.