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@trollmastermike52845 Hydra are older than dirt and when used in combat it's rightly presumed the enemy will snag a few which malfunction. Not everything is exotic.
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Manned ground attack birds do not need to exist because their sustainment costs are absurdly high, even your beloved A-10 (it's OK to like things because they're cool but don't pretend otherwise) giving poor bang for big bucks. Meat in the seat requires much larger squadron manning, stunningly expensive aircrew in an era of pilot shortages, and CSAR (because every now and then the US fights people who can and do shoot back). A-10 has low loiter time and a large deployment footprint. The REAL considerations of combat air power are too boring to add to video games. SHORAD is now so dangerous neither side in Ukraine can attain air dominance, merely local air superiority. A-10 was designed in the early innings of the Cold War where high losses were rightly expected. Aircrew are not expendable in 2025. A-10 took frequent damage as far back as Desert Storm (where I worked F-16s on the same ramp at KKMC next to the impressively talented CLSS troops who kept most damaged A-10s flying) and 2025 is far more dangerous then the ancient 1990s.
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