Key Points and Summary - The A-10 Warthog, a "tank plinker" hero of the War on Terror, is a "relic" with no role in a modern, stand-off missile fight with China. -The A-10 should be retired by the ...

Pilots driving the A-10C Thunderbolt II completed several days of bombing practice at Fort McCoy in early September during bombing training runs with 1,000-pound munitions at the installation’s impact ...

The United States is trying to phase out the A-10 just as Ukraine is being pounded by waves of Shahed drones, a timing that ...

The Air Force is moving on from its steady, slow-flying attack jets that have been heralded for decades of service, especially among the ground forces saved by A-10 Thunderbolt IIs while fighting in ...

The Air Force will begin removing its A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft from Osan Air Base, South Korea, starting in January 2025. (Senior Airman Daniel Snider/U.S. Air Force) The Air Force will begin ...

The exercise enhanced the integration and improved Tactics Techniques and Procedures between the Philippine Air Force and the U.S. Air Force, practicing high-intensity and hub-and-spoke operations as ...

The United States Air Force A-10 was designed as a Close Air Support aircraft, built around a potent armor-destroying 30 mm rotating barrel cannon known as the Avenger. Known as the A-10 ‘Thunderbolt ...

The beloved A-10 Warthog continues to show its worth even though the Air Force is rapidly draining them out of its current fleet and plans to retire all the aircraft in a few years. Most recently, ...

The Air Force has finally backed down on replacing the venerable and highly effective A-10 with the F-35 -- at least, not any time soon. The A-10 will continue flying for another six years. Share on ...

The Air Force’s decision to award the contract to Fairchild Republic—which went on to build the A-10 Warthog—proved to be one of the greatest decisions Pentagon acquisitions experts have ever made. In ...

The A-10 has a better track record in battle—in terms of saving US warfighters in tough ground combat conditions—since 1991 than any of America’s advanced warplanes have shown. With the news that the ...