Operative word in the title- "hopes".

Might require some checking but I don't think they use DU with the A-10 anymore.

Hows that F-35 cheer-leading campaign sferrin?

frequency and redundancy, you mean like Lockheed Martin talking points?

Not much of an argument when the F-35 won't stand up to advanced threats and won't be affordable.

Who wants to fund a second engine vendor for a jet program that will be lucky to see a few hundred mistake-jets made before it is canceled?
And as Weaponhead stated before, the silence on funding $50B for hundreds of F-35 LRIP mistake-jets is deafening.
In other news, the rest of the F-35s are allowed to test again. They say it was an MX fault and too much oiling and well everything is rosy. Yet, Flight Global pulled that article. Why?

When the next gen jammer program didn't pan out at the time, the Navy went with legacy jamming equipment to put on this aircraft. That is after they made up briefs stating that the equipment on it today (mostly from the EA-6) was too hard to maintain and wouldn't stand up to emerging threats. Well, they had to put something on deck. The fact that this aircraft is out there vs. a very poorly maintained legacy Soviet era SAM system isn't a big deal.
"Not much Grrrrrr! for the Growler" http://is.gd/kioIDV

There is a difference between doing a contract selection based on engine performance and price and the Saudi experience of poor maintenance, where a Saudi prince stated- I didn't buy my F-15s to fly them like an F-5; in reference to some burn wear on engines in MRO where the response from PW was to dial down the throttle.

That is an interesting theory. Funny how the Saudis had the PWs in their F-15s removed and had them replaced by GEs over a bad customer service issue.

Nameless internet trolls unite.