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Actually it died do to regulation. They made it illegal to go supersonic over land, and then it died.

At the very least wait until after drones are no longer mission killed by jamming and spoofing.

No, not at all. Tilt rotors are medium range transports, better than helicopters, that work even when you have limited options for landing. Flying boats on the other-hand are long duration patrol craft. They are great for multi-day long missions in a way few aircraft can match. The only things...

I can't blame them, it is a beautiful and very adaptable bird.

Search radar is going to be heavily degraded if not destroyed by the time Ground Air support is called in. Even with prestine search raydars, flyign nape of the earth is far more effective than any sort of stealth coating.

The A-10 replies "There is a hill over there and look at my turn radius" Low altitude flight is an entirely different beast than high altitude flight because terrain matters.

A backpack mounted turboprop style device would make more sense (pull don't push) but even then after acounting for fuel you won't have the spare weight for a full kit or even them much endurance. Possibly useful for urban and mountain enviroments, but they would have to abandon their most...

You cannot have constant 100% satellite coverage. There will always be gaps as they orbit. A plane can give you coverage of a location exactly when you want it.

Combine arms doctrine means you should have a suitable supply of both, as well as other specializations.

Perhaps this will force our air command to remember that combined arms doctrine exists, and not every bird is a strike fighter.

The aluminum will give out eventually. Now BMGs on the otherhand, those will last forever, they are made of steel and are in that sweet spot between and auto-cannon and machinegun where they will always be useful somewhere while being man portable.

Its the cult of the fighter, they beleive that anything that is not a strike fighter should not be in the air. I swear if they wouldn't get sacked for it they would try to argue cargo missions should be flown by strike fighters.

It looks like patches, I'm almost thinking the plane was left unpainted for some reason.

Its flaws are inherited from the on in its conception: the airforce brass are part of the cult of the fighter and have no understanding of combined arms warfare.