The Air Force and Navy training highlighted “joint air-maritime integration” according to the Navy’s 5th Fleet, but it also showed that the military is still finding uses for both the planes and ships ...
The A-10, now in the twilight of its career, is uniquely suited to protect naval assets from lower-end threats, such as ...
Key Points on A-10 Warthog - The A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog," a Cold War-era aircraft famed for its tank-busting 30mm cannon and rugged close air support in Iraq and Afghanistan where its presence ...
The long-awaited upgrade improves networked situational awareness but has been fielded on only a handful of Warthogs, with the new antenna nearly indistinguishable from the existing TACAN installation ...
The United States Air Force saw thirty-nine—or nearly 20 percent—of its fleet of 218 Cold War-era Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support (CAS) attack aircraft retired in 2024. In ...
The Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing officially began the divestment of its A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, with the first jet departing Boise’s Gowen Field on Tuesday. The Warthog aircraft ...
Supporters of the A-10 have argued that no other aircraft, notably the F-35 Lightning II, can fill the Thunderbolt II’s role. It is the season of miracles, and there seems to be guardian angels ...
The aircraft’s planned retirement, included in the US Air Force’s fiscal year 2026 budget request to Congress, was moved up by two years. Next year will mark five decades since the Fairchild Republic ...