Originally Posted by
block30
Feds Override Beechcraft Appeal Of LAS Contract
After much ado from Beechcraft, looks like the new light air support aircraft are finally going into production. Whether it be Beech or Embraer, I don't care so much as getting these aircraft produced in a timely manner to affect troops on the ground.
Also,I didn't realize the aircraft were going to the Afghan Air Force...I thought they were going to the US Air Force.
The war is over according to the white house and the Afghans will never fly them after we leave. If they wanted more CAS they should have thought about that when they were BRACing all the A-10 bases. If one dime of US taxpayer money is going to these planes for us or the Afghans it is wasted money. We can not afford aircraft solely suited for permissive phase IV operations going forward. These airplanes and most of the UAVs of today are a generational fad.