Posts by vet 2 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Sep 2015
I expect that the USN and Marines did ask for a Navy version of the A-10 originally, but probably politics within the Pentagon stopped it. Turf wars among Flag Officers can be really nasty. I imagine the Corps wishes it did have its own version of the Stuka or Sturmovik, but the down side would have been that a Navy A-10 could not have flown CAP over the carriers.
The main reason the USAF has always hated the A-10 is because it is an Air Force aircraft that was designed for only one type of mission - close ground support - meaning it is on call by the Army and Marines. Thus USAF A-10 generals have to defer to generals wearing other-color uniforms in what it does.
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