☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoU.S. Air Force loses Warthog attack jet near Hormuzdefence-blog.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down10
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minus-squareMulligrubs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-22 months agoI’m not an expert, but I’ve read that A-10s don’t have very good missile defenses, and they will be pretty vulnerable in Iran, which is stuffed full of missiles The planes are like 40 years old
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoWikipedia says they were built from 1072-1984 so yeah, old. But we don’t have anything to replace it for super low ground support like that. Everyone else uses drones for that, for a reason.
I’m not an expert, but I’ve read that A-10s don’t have very good missile defenses, and they will be pretty vulnerable in Iran, which is stuffed full of missiles
The planes are like 40 years old
Wikipedia says they were built from 1072-1984 so yeah, old.
But we don’t have anything to replace it for super low ground support like that.
Everyone else uses drones for that, for a reason.