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Originally Posted by chico20854
One factor to keep in mind is the rivalry between the infantry branch and armor branch - the infantry wanted control of the infantry support assault gun, while the armor branch saw anything with tracks, a gun and no infantry inside as its responsibility, and it wasn't interested in an air-deployable vehicle with a gun that couldn't defeat a T-72/80 reliably. So the infantry guys wanted it but were forcing it on a community that didn't - similar to the A-10 in the USAF. With the post-Cold War budget cuts and the lack of any visible threat that required a XM-8/LAV-75 or similar, the project died.
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And the Air Force doesn't want the Army to have armed fixed-wing aircraft...if the Army wanted something air-deployable that can reliably defeat T-72s and T-80s, they should have given
them the A-10s.
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