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As I recall the Hog is mainly operated National Guard and reserve units so if it was transferred to the Marines it would fall under the control of the 4th Marine Air Wing. Also I'm assuming if we did such a transfer the funding for the A-10 would also shift since otherwise the Marines would...

Not really a whole bunch of nations operate its Soviet/Russian equivalent the SU-25 in fact said airframe is still made today some 42 years after it first rolled off the line

Oh course to make it nigh unkillable on the modern battlefield I suspect it would need quite the beefy ECM and EW package which wouldn't do pretty things to the cost per airplane. Also I suspect that Congress would need to hold the fighter mafia's procurement of new rides hostage to get the Air...

If nothing else I imagine that the A-10 airframe lacks the spare power production capabilities to run all the systems a modern A-10 equivalent would need in a modern war and to run everything in general since modern equipment uses a lot more juice. Plus given how the last A-10 rolled off the...

To be fair to the Air Force brass who want to retire the A-10 the simple fact is that the A-10 is in need of serious upgrades and moreover they don't have unlimted flight hours for their airframes so a replacement would be a good idea as it's a better investment of money. Mind you the F-35A...