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Oscar Duck
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looks like around 1/3 of the A-10's are grounded right now due to wing cracks - read aging aircraft, average age 28...\

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?Cont ... c0917901c&


US military aviation looking a bit like Wall St....

F-15/C-130/P-3 issues.

what's next?

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I beleive Boeing already won a contract to make new wings and the process has already started. Will have to look it up to see where it stands.

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10's are being rewinged and upgraded to C model status in greenville s.c. and are deployed to afghanistan (bagram) where I work.
Last year when we had a week between A-10 units rotating in we got multiple rocket attacks, as soon as the 10's showed up the attacks stopped. there were still f15e's there but even ray charles can see an f-15 taking off. the taliban hate the a-10 because it's so quiet.

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Here's the news report.

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/200 ... 2b_nr.html

If any A-10's have got new wings at this point I beleive they were reworked wings from A-10's stored at D/M AFB. I've seen some pictures of them being done there not brand new wings.

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US military aviation looking a bit like Wall St....

F-15/C-130/P-3 issues.


Don't forget the KC-135s. And Army aviation seems to be doing ok.

IIRC, the AF tried to get rid of the A-10 just before Desert Storm, and if it hadn't been for Congressional pressure, they would have. (Also, IIRC, there was also a threat to give it to the Army, who didn't really want it at the time, due to lack of support infrastructure)...

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what we are seeing in most countries is a lack of investment. the issue of trying eek out the last of anything does not work when the tempo of ops moves up. The RAAF here have kept the Caribou in service for almost a decade beyond its useful life. Today they are effectively grounded following a structural failaure of one a couple of weeks ago in PNG. Meantime as they used to say in my days - the services will "cope". What choice do we have?

Remember the show is the run by the same folks who oversight Wall Street....

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EHHHHHHHHH! We should have just went with the Piper Enforcer! :wink:

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Detailed design drawings are just being finished up by Boeing. Probably be a while before a completed wing is built and qualified.
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IF I recall, the Air Force wanted to get rid of the A-10 in favor of a tank busting version of the F-16 which wouldn't be as effective.
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the ugly duckling is getting a face lift........ thank god..... it is a real hero.

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