A second United States Air Force combat aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday as rescue teams continued searching for a missing crew member from a downed F-15E Strike Eagle, according to two U.S. officials cited by The
A-10 is live target practice for Iran’s domestically produced manpads. It should not be anywhere near this conflict. That they are using it at all shows massive incompetence.
The whole reason why there isn’t a modern equivalent to the A-10 is because the Air Force knew that said plane wouldn’t be able to survive in a conflict where the enemy had any surface-to-air attack capability.
A-10 is live target practice for Iran’s domestically produced manpads. It should not be anywhere near this conflict. That they are using it at all shows massive incompetence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misagh-2
The whole reason why there isn’t a modern equivalent to the A-10 is because the Air Force knew that said plane wouldn’t be able to survive in a conflict where the enemy had any surface-to-air attack capability.