<story><title>Dark spot under cockpit of A-10s</title><url>http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2078/dark-spot-under-cockpit-on-a-10s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrydag</author><text>The A-10 is one on of the aircraft that is on the list for retirement from the US Air Force.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#Proposed_retirement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunder...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The A-10 is a cold war designed attack jet to be used to take out Soviet tanks.  Its really good at slow (relatively) , guided, precise air-to-ground strikes.  I think it would make a good candidate for a new class of a drones fleet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfb</author><text>Yeah, possibly. What is indisputable is that the mooted replacement (the F-35) is as useless as tits on a boar for close ground support.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dark spot under cockpit of A-10s</title><url>http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2078/dark-spot-under-cockpit-on-a-10s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrydag</author><text>The A-10 is one on of the aircraft that is on the list for retirement from the US Air Force.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#Proposed_retirement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunder...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The A-10 is a cold war designed attack jet to be used to take out Soviet tanks.  Its really good at slow (relatively) , guided, precise air-to-ground strikes.  I think it would make a good candidate for a new class of a drones fleet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericcumbee</author><text>My dad always said that he&amp;#x27;d take one A-10 covering him over an entire squadron of F-16s.</text></comment>