{"id":129009,"date":"2015-11-26T06:51:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T06:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/in-defense-of-and-offense-to-the-warthog.html"},"modified":"2015-11-26T06:51:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T06:51:56","slug":"in-defense-of-and-offense-to-the-warthog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/in-defense-of-and-offense-to-the-warthog.html","title":{"rendered":"In defense of (and offense to) the Warthog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Air Force were actually succeeding in presenting a new alternative to the A-10 Warthog, I&#39;d be fully in favor of same. After all, negligent reliance on old technology has bitten more than one nation&#39;s armed forces in the butt.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it seems to me that the Air Force&#39;s animosity to the A-10, and repeated moves to get rid of it, are more based on (a) political over-commitment to the F-35 platform, even though they&#39;re looking to get rid of the A-10 before the F-35 is even flying straight yet, and (b) big defense contractor budgets for the F-35.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a40012\/a-10-warthog-f-35-erick-erickson\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/nV7V2Mg5GXdYesMv4l-FiDJW9qivWtNzLqJr92JTdQ9jwl-uiwmiNNMxOKBF5LsJ_HwdBfVcYCq92gxjDlydhO8AzZDPZzE8wK4PPSXPMXAqN6MsmUoVXblRLf6b=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a40012\/a-10-warthog-f-35-erick-erickson\/'>Local Know-Nothings Tell the Air Force How to Run Its Shop<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDitch the A-10 Warthog for the F-35? Really?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/MrUKigk2yXR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Air Force were actually succeeding in presenting a new alternative to the A-10 Warthog, I&#39;d be fully in favor of same. After all, negligent reliance on old technology has bitten more than one nation&#39;s armed forces in the butt. Unfortunately, it seems to me that the Air Force&#39;s animosity to the A-10, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/in-defense-of-and-offense-to-the-warthog.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In defense of (and offense to) the Warthog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133640,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/is-there-anything-the-f-35-program-isnt-screwing-up.html","url_meta":{"origin":129009,"position":0},"title":"Is there anything the F-35 program isn&#039;t screwing up?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Jun-17 2:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not so far as I can tell.The current casualty is the A-10 Warthog. 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Watching you is a spectacle that never ends!===\u25ba Our legal system is broken! \"77% of refugees allowed into U.S. since travel reprieve hail from seven suspect countries.\" (WT) SO DANGEROUS! [1]Why\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132422,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/tweetizen-trump-2016-12-23-nukes-in-the-swamp.html","url_meta":{"origin":129009,"position":5},"title":"*Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2016-12-23 &quot;Nukes in the Swamp&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Dec-16 8:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, a lot of Trump topics to cover. 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