TYT: Trillion-Dollar Jet Wasting Your Tax $

[tech3149]

3. From my point of view the most effective air platform we have is the A10

It's old, slow, and not very sexy but bang for the buck and skills to answer any current threat put it head and shoulders above the F-22 and F-35. The only thing those two turkeys are good for is to put mucho dinero into the coffers of the manufacturers.

The F14 through F18 are still good platforms but we really don't have a threat that requires them. Even if we had such a threat we could build new, upgrade avionics and weapons systems quicker than shit.
Why throw away proven platforms for an over-priced gold-plated widget that you don't even know will work?