As much as I enjoy the spectacular sound of the piston engines, I can not stress enough that I am fairly concerned modern anti-aircraft measures would be overpowering for these machines.
Nonetheless, this airplane exists and is a thing.
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As much as I enjoy the spectacular sound of the piston engines, I can not stress enough that I am fairly concerned modern anti-aircraft measures would be overpowering for these machines.
Nonetheless, this airplane exists and is a thing.
The concept of a ground attack aircraft that shoots its cannon at things is well and truly dead in the age of MANPADS. Even the A-10 basically doesn't do that any more. However, a fixed wing piston engine plane that shoots rockets or glide bombs from outside MANPADS range might make some sense. This is a role typically filled by helicopters right now, but a fixed wing plane would offer better range and lower cost.
How about the "Sky Warden" tactical crop duster: https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/skywarden
Those extra 10mm in the A10 are very important, especially for supporting ground combat. It's used to fire at heavily armored targets such as tanks. Also, the A10 's targeting system is more advanced and precise, though that could potentially be implemented on the Corsair. Regardless, the Warthog has better armor, making it more resilient to ground fire from the enemy. I believe that the A10 is better designed for ground combat support than the Corsair.
What congressional representatives are you contacting so that I can counter your arguments with them?
I recently spoke with the senator from Colorado and he's definitely on our side
you forgot that in NATO the more expensive the better (and the worst is I'm half joking: in France for example there is a high refusal from arms factories to build low cost drones like the ones used in Ukraine because they are not expensive enough and so you can't build only a few of them and makes big money with that...).
So you should makes an gold coat for the F4U if you want it to replace the A10 :P.
Go price out what a cylinder cost these days for a Pratt & Whitney double wasp. The Corsair has 18 of them.
89mph stall speed only with full flaps down