Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "" video.

  1. I'm a fan of not throwing them away, giving them away, or scrapping them, and holding them in reserve storage in AZ as long as practical. in a large scale conflict, we just might need to bring them out of storage. Numbers may matter, and I like being prepared.
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  2.  @dashikashi4734  Costs nothing to maintain aircraft i a boneyard.
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  3.  @theotherohlourdespadua1131  "You still have to pay for the security and amenities of said security and get this" wrong, that cost is already being paid today, and will continue to be paid, regardless if A-10s end up there or not. "Don't conflate "boneyard" with "junkyard"" stop projecting your opinions onto me and attacking me for things I never said. I never once claimed the boneyard was a junkyard. Learn to read.
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  4.  @dashikashi4734  but if/when that time comes, we can worry about it. Hopefully it never comes. So not a problem. But to your point, boneyard aircraft are retrofitted and reflown all the time. Some sold to other nations, some turned into flying target drones, etc.
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  5.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Cars/aircraft don't deteriorate in teh AZ desert the way they do elsewhere. I used to live/fly there. Aircraft are reflown out of the boneyard plenty of times including the present day. US military reuses boneyard planes all the time. Just like the mothball fleet, you hold them in emergency reserve as long as you can, just incase a large scale war (China) errupts at just the wrong time and suddenly you find yourself short on aircraft due to early losses and wishing you hadn't thrown all those planes away. You can dip into older reserve aircraft short term while production catches up on newer designs. Better to have something old and used than nothing at all if that happened. If such an event doesn't occur in the next ten years, then go ahead and start scrapping them or selling them off. "After thousands of hours, they're unsafe." When parts wear out, you replace them. Did you know the entire A-10 fleet just got brand new wings? upgraded cockpits? They are newly refurbished and good for many decades to come now. All the old worn out parts were recently replaced completely. They are basically brand new aircraft. Do you throw your car away every time the tires need changed? I didn't replace my car when the shocks wore out, I replaced them. I didn't throw my 1960 Cessna 150 away when parts cracked, we replaced them. Still flying and getting performance numbers very close to factory new in the manual.
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  6.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  "They don't deteriorate in the desert. They deteriorate by being flown" clearly you don't know what a "hangar queen" is. People in aviation do. The A-10s are not at end of life. they've been rebuilt and upgraded and are basically new again, many decades of service left in them. "If you're going to rebuild the entire thing, you're buying a new aircraft." and that's what they did, replaced all the old worn out items, brand new wings, new engines, new avionics. All the fatigued parts were replaced. clock has been reset. " A total waste of money because everyone knew this would happen." but the money has already been spent, so why scrap them? "Aircraft are built to be lightweight so they flex and strain with flight hours, depressurization and landing/take off cycles. Your Cessna's never exceed speed is what, 170 knots? Make it pull 7-8 Gs at 280 knots like an A-10 and see what happens." I'm a mechanical engineer. You're wrong. an airplane designed to withstand higher Gs has that factored into the design, to withstand that fatigue and stress accordingly. If the A-10 was designed to handle 7Gs, pulling 7Gs wont degrade its useful life. Pulling less will extend its life though. The Cessna was designed to withstand ~+3G/-1.5G, and so long as you stay within that, you're fine. But that's why they replaced the wings, not just on the a-10, but the f-15s as well. Exceeding limits can result in damage or premature failure later on. But when expecting to take higher loads, you design accordingly. You can even make high stress components with near infinite fatigue life if you us the right materials in critical places and size them correctly.
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  7. US doesn't operate the way Ukraine or Russia has.
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