Ryan McBeth

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379 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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The President's Daily Brief · The PDB Situation Report | July 11th, 2026: The Iran Ceasefire Is Dead—Here's What Happens Next · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

It can put a lot of lead on target.

We keep finding new roles for it in the sense of we're using A-10s for maritime patrol in the Strait of Hormuz.

Now, the disadvantage of the A-10 is that it's not a survivable aircraft, and it actually never was.

Now, survivable in the sense that it can take a lot of ground fire, yes, absolutely.

But survivable in a modern contested environment, that's really questionable.

And it's questionable whether the A-10 would have been survivable in the 1970s, 1980s in Europe when every single airfield would have been turned into a lake of nuclear fire.

Maybe you would have gotten one sortie off.

But maybe you would have landed on a runway or on a on a highway and been refueled and rearmed.

And that'll work until you essentially run out of fuel and spare parts.

But the big question is, does the A-10 accelerate change?

And if the answer to that is no.

then we need to rethink our priorities.

And when you take a look at an aircraft like the F-35, which has sensor fusion, it can talk with various aircraft and ships.

and even Patriot missile units, you can have an F-35 tell a ship, fire a missile, I will guide that missile toward an enemy incoming missile, and you don't have to turn your radars on to guide it.

I mean, that's an incredible capability.

I think the A-10 is a good aircraft for a very limited role, but it's certainly something that we might be able to replicate with something like a Super Tucano.

Which I believe the Air Force has bought a couple of those aircraft as close air support for special forces.

Congress is going to want some concessions.

There are people in Congress who are very afraid of Turkey's rhetoric toward Israel.

There's also other people who are afraid of kind of upsetting the balance of power in the region because Turkey hasn't always been friendly with Greece, nor have they been friendly with Israel.

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