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With the economy in its current state many organizations in the military are being forced to cut back their budgets. There are currently a bunch of changes being implemented throughout Army Aviation. These include the elimination of the OH-58D scout helicopter and decommissioning the TH-67 Creek as the primary trainer and going with the LUH. Anyone care to way in or your thoughts? I would love to hear what my fellow aviators are thinking..
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Edited 12 y ago
Posted 12 y ago
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This is just my opinion as well but I think it would be a bad idea to decommission the A-10. I don't know how many times they have bailed us out during a fire fight in Afghanistan. Hope they reevaluate that decision.
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by the way the A-10 warthog is one of my all time favorite planes the reason why a 7 barreled get up and get on with over 1000 rounds of 30 Mike Mike depleted uranium rounds capable of penetrating any modern Soviet armor on the battlefield today (FYI i got some interesting feedback from RP within minutes of making this comment, be ye forewarned)
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SrA Ronald Moore
SGT (Join to see) Who ever get the office is who The people majority wants,Keep hoding everyone responsible, And Let's stay Military minded.Any one seen another Shock and Awe of late ,You all do get work our there that I hint A well of my lacrimal gland tearing up in joy of the Fight,The Pride,The "We Got this,"
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SrA Ronald Moore
SGT (Join to see) Just when we get rid of the A'10 the balance of winning will be on whose side,Keep it,at lease a squadron of Them in each state,local.
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Well Sir I did a lill bit of reading the headlines and it seems to me that the Apache is kind of a machine in search of a mission. In Iraq they got damaged pretty bad trying to complete the deep strike mission so I think that by using them in the armed reconnaissance role. Then there are the medevac escorts that are supposed to be helping medical units out, but for some reason are not going over well. The Apaches have got the teeth and most of them have the Longbow radar already so it sounds like a natural fit to me. The thing I would like to see is a new helo transport to replace the Chinook, its been upgraded to the point there is not much left to improve on save for building something new. I'm sure those ST6 Stealthhawks were not cheap either so gotta make up for that situation too. The Commanche got canceled and I think that is a good call and so is turning in the Kiowas a few years before the service is ready. However, just keep the high/low force mix between active, reserve, and guard that has been planned as far as Blackhawks go and I think Army Aviation will bounce back and deal with the changes appropriately.
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Sir I think a lot of people that would weigh in on this
subject simply are not on rallypoint yet but my 2 cents is that it's a mistake
that will Weaken the military as I have never heard of, this along with cutting
the A-10 I think will make the US unable to claim air superiority in any force
on force conflict. My opinion is that if
an army aircraft has to be canceled it should be the AH-64 because of how much
more it costs to operate but the government will not do that because they just
spent billions of dollars upgrading that along with every other airframe so if
they are going to cut one it will be the most outdated not the one that makes
since.
subject simply are not on rallypoint yet but my 2 cents is that it's a mistake
that will Weaken the military as I have never heard of, this along with cutting
the A-10 I think will make the US unable to claim air superiority in any force
on force conflict. My opinion is that if
an army aircraft has to be canceled it should be the AH-64 because of how much
more it costs to operate but the government will not do that because they just
spent billions of dollars upgrading that along with every other airframe so if
they are going to cut one it will be the most outdated not the one that makes
since.
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