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First F-35 Jets Lacks Ground-Combat Punch of 1970s-Era A-10s
©2015 Bloomberg News NMTHUZ6JIJV2 (Bloomberg) — The first F-35 jets ready for combat won’t be able to protect forces in ground combat as well as the nearly 40-year-old A-10s the Pentagon wants to retire, according to the Defense Department’s chief weapons tester. Compared with the lumbering A-10, known as the Warthog,