Believe it or not but the Corps was offered ALL the Air Force A-10's at NO COST. The Corps spent almost a year debating the possibilities but finally decided to turn it down...Why, you ask? It is because the A-10 did not have a tailhook nor could it be retrofited for it. They decided to work on putting a tailhook on the OV-10. In fact, this program had a lot of success and they did Carrier qual OV-10's for the fleet. Unfortunately, thanks to the Gulf War, they felt the OV-10 was not survivable in modern warfare so two months after she CQ'd, the OV-10 died. We lost the A-10 and the OV-10 in one fail swoop. That's ok, we still have the F-18.....yea right! Frumby
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