Aviation Week Article from today.
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Air Force Weighs Scrapping A-10 Replacement
When asked whether the service is taking steps to develop a single-role “A-X,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said “not yet.”
So does that mean a single-mission CAS platform will eventually go away? “Maybe,” Goldfein says.
“I don’t disagree that a single-role platform sets an incredibly high bar for the rest of the force,” he said during a wide-ranging interview with Aviation Week July 16. “But remember, [combatant commanders] have got the entire spectrum of conflict that I’ve got to support, from the highest end, the lowest end and everything in between, and I’ve got a certain amount of money that I’ve got to use to build the best Air Force that money can buy.”
https://aviationweek.com/defense/air-force-weighs-scrapping-10-replacement?NL=AW-05&Issue=AW-05_20170718_AW-05_864&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1&utm_rid=CPEN1000002522837&utm_campaign=10950&utm_medium=email&elq2=7a3718c930084bba9f96932439b65a1c