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This is a Navy article but has an A-10 in the picture?
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/16/ ... p=features

Isn't that the A-1 Skyraider replacement?

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will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

The journalist used the marketing materials handed to him from the BAE company. The rendition was part of the BAE marketing sales sheets.

Its obvious who BAE has decided as their target customer

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\"Fortunately for BAE and General Dynamics, the US Navy kept them in the game. In November 2008, they formally picked up the APKWS-II System Design & Development (SDD) contract, and kept it going. SDD finished in November 2009, and evaluations wrapped up in January 2010. APKWS-II was approved through Milestone C in April 2010, and initial production orders followed in July 2010. A February 2011 JCTD contract will add APKWS to fixed-wing fighters: the USMC’s AV-8B Harriers, and the USAF’s A-10C Thunderbolt close air support planes. By January 2012, the 1st fixed-wing test firing had added the AT-6C turboprop light attack plane to this list, and showed clear potential for broader fielding. The US military fielded APKWS in March 2012, beginning with US Marine Corps UH-1 utility and AH-1 attack helicopters. The 1st Full Rate Production order was placed at the end of July 2012.\"

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/apk ... ase-02193/