Warzone/The Drive: USAF's New Excuses For Delaying Light Attack Aircraft Program Sound Like A Death Sentence
The service now wants to expand its light attack effort to include platforms it has now, shifting the focus away from the one it desperately needs.
The Air Force's top officer says the service had to put its most recent light attack aircraft program on hold to gather yet more data on how it might use such these planes and how they might operate together with attack helicopters, armed drones, and other platforms. He also implied that there had been a lack of interest from potential foreign partners. Beyond simply ignoring the service's own glaringly obvious need for this capability, these arguments for putting the program on ice are dubious at best and appear to be a pretext for outright canceling the effort, if it isn't effectively dead already.
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WNU Editor: This reluctance on procuring light attack aircraft is feeding into the perception that the Air Force is only interested in big ticket items at the expense of smaller programs like a light attack plane.
