
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Monday that any plan to compare the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s ability to do close air support (CAS) to that of the A-10 Warthog, which currently flies those missions, would be “a silly exercise.”"The F-35's mission in the close air support arena would be to do high-threat close air support in a contested environment that the A-10 would not be able to survive in. That will be the role of the…