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But while the Air Force’s efforts to retire the A-10 Warthog aircraft led to years of conflict with lawmakers until recently, Venable doubts the service will run into similar opposition on Capitol Hill over potential AC-130 changes. A U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider is parked after te...
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While the canard wing looks small compared to the rest of the aircraft, it is huge when compared in size to the A-10 Warthog that is displayed under the XB-70's fuselage. The photo below shows the business end of the Valkyrie. Known as the six-pack, each of the six GE J93 engines...
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A-10 Warthogs are back in Afghanistan The A-10 Thunderbolt II arrived in Afghanistan Jan. 19, and flew their first mission within 24 hours of landing at Kandahar, according to U.S. Air Forces Central Command. ByKyle Rempfer Nicholson spoke to reporters Wednesday at Bagram Airfield north of...
"close air support, precision strike, armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), strike coordination and forward air controller" missions in uncontested air environments. Essentially, the planes were to take over the kinds of roles played byA-10 Warthog fighter jetsin Afghanistan and...
…The U.S. Air Force… arguing that the F-35A can perform close air support as well as the A-10 Warthog can do, is now claiming it cannot afford the A-10s because it needs the money to support the forthcoming F-35A… WNU Editor: Words escape me. ...
rhetoric worked. The DoD retired the F-22 Raptor, F/A-18 Hornet, and several jets in the Harrier family because the F-35 was in line to replace them. The Air Forcefoughtto replace the beloved A-10 Warthog with the F-35 on the grounds that the latter was, somehow, a superior ...
handling drawdowns and the ongoing challenge of sexual assault, they have to navigate a Congress highly skeptical of the service's budget decisions, particularly the push to retire the A-10 Warthog. If the two can't repair relations with the Hill, 2015 could be very rocky for the service....