Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, a US plane built by ...
The A-10 Warthog’s designers understood that battle damage in combat would be inevitable—and overengineered the plane to ...
The squadron that qualifies new A-10 pilots for combat duty graduated its last class of students in April, as the US Air Force moves haltingly toward retiring the venerable ground attack fighter.
The Air Force reversed its plan to decommission the A-10 Warthog by 2029, a decision that affects the attack jet flown out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan. Earlier this year the 107th ...
The A-10 was supposed to be on the way out, but new missions tied to Iran may be changing that and changing the future of the ...
In an about-face from earlier years, the Air Force announced Monday that it will maintain the A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jet to 2030. “We will EXTEND the A-10 “Warthog” platform to 2030,” Air ...
The Air Force planned to retire the A-10 this year, but extended its life as it continues to fly in the Middle East.
The aging attack plane has come close to retirement, but congressional and now military intervention has repeatedly thrown it a lifeline.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink announced that three A-10 squadrons will keep flying through 2030, following the Warthog's heavy combat role in Operation Epic Fury. The Air Force will keep the A-10 ...