Posted on Apr 9, 2014
What is the Best Aircraft in the current inventory?
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<p>I will start this one off. What is the best aircraft currently being Used in the military. Below is my submission P.S if you look close in My profile you can See an F15-E.</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri-obaBZr9I</p><p><br></p><div class="pta-link-card"><div class="pta-link-card-picture"><img src="https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/ri-obaBZr9I/hqdefault.jpg"></div><div class="pta-link-card-content"><div class="pta-link-card-title"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri-obaBZr9I" target="_blank">(Pilot's Lounge)░░▒▓Where Eagles Fly- Sammy Hagar & Eddie Van Halen▓▒░</a></div><div class="pta-link-card-description">Aviation Commercial: Air Force F-15. Song is "Where Eagles Fly"- Sammy Hagar & Eddie Van Halen</div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="pta-box-hide"><i class="icon-remove"></i></div></div>
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Well I would have to say the A-10 but I guess that is mainly due to the type of war we are fighting at this moment in Afghanistan and how many people I have seen it kill.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9La3Yc2u3NM
The "Warthog" first flew from Davis Monthan AB in 1975 and was designed to confront the threat of massed Soviet armour pouring into Western Europe. To do thi...
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PO3 Lori Brummer
I guess the most important thing is to qualify the mission first, Seek and Destroy, Protect, Search and Rescue? Every mission has a fine honed tool to use (more than likely; several) to choose from. ...and then there is just the plain "Pretty Cool' factor....So for Protect, my vote is the A-10 Tank Killer, for the Seek and Destroy, you could probably put in the F-15 Strike Eagle... for Search and Rescue, definitely the H-60 Black?Sea/Jay Hawk ( what! How did a helo get on that list?)... and for just being pretty damn cool, serve me up some F-22 Raptor, please! But don't forget the work horses, i.e. supply/maintenance and the Reconnaissance aircraft... Thank you, C-130's. and the uber cool Reconnaissance aircraft U-2's for your service too! So many aircraft out there, thank you all!
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CSM (Join to see) - But an AF flag officer with his F-35 JSF 160 BILLION over budget buggy computerized fly-by-wire- beta- programmed plane says that keeping the A-10 is 'unamerican' and he tried so hard to kill the A-10 but Senator McCain and Former A-10 Squadron Commander and Arizona Rep. McSally got together and fought the military industrial complex and won a 4-year stay of execution on the A-10 in this year's budget. The AF General in charge of the JSF I am sure is having a 3 year old termper tantrum. I think the A-10 Warthog should be like the B-52 and continue flying until 2040.
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=d557db3e-a8d4-4d57-a2da-8803bcdef2fd
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=d557db3e-a8d4-4d57-a2da-8803bcdef2fd
First Female Fighter Squadron Commander Takes A-10 Unit Into Combat | Aero-News Network
'I Am Humbled To Be The First' The first female fighter squadron commander recently took her A-10 unit from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, AZ, into co| Published: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 | Aero-News Network
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lets make sure the A-10 Warthog for low-level support also beign kept airworthy until 2040 and B-52 for 21st Century Crusie Missle or Linebacker/Arclight but now precision bombing missions and just like the A-10 having a long dwell time!
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If we're talking bombers, the B-52.
Fighters, the F/A-18 or F-15
Attack-Fixed, the A-10.
Cargo-Fixed, C-17
Cargo/Utility-rotary, the CH-53
Attack-Rotary, AH-64
Can't really generalize that considering the broad spectrum that would cover. However, simply due to longevity, I'd probably go with the B-52 or the CH-46/47 because they've been around for 50-60 years.
Fighters, the F/A-18 or F-15
Attack-Fixed, the A-10.
Cargo-Fixed, C-17
Cargo/Utility-rotary, the CH-53
Attack-Rotary, AH-64
Can't really generalize that considering the broad spectrum that would cover. However, simply due to longevity, I'd probably go with the B-52 or the CH-46/47 because they've been around for 50-60 years.
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TSgt (Join to see) - believe it or not, there are still a few B57 variants in service that do some...interesting.. stuff. The U2s missions are capable by other platforms. The B57s aren’t.
ISR goes to the Canberra.
ISR goes to the Canberra.
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