-The aircraft is too heavy, its airframe and landing gear are not built to withstand violent carrier operations, and it lacks essential features like a tailhook. -Furthermore, in a future high-tech ...

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 ...

In another example of budget-driven strategic choices, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James this week dumped cold water on a reasonable plan bruited by senior Air Force officers to retire and ...

Even as the U.S. Air Force works to retire its fleet of A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, Warthogs are still proving useful in the ongoing fight against ISIS. And now, the U.S. military is sending additional ...

Wired comes out with a stirring defense of the A-10 Warthog after a GAO report showed the Air Force didn’t take a very serious look at the savings and costs of retiring the plane: The Air Force claims ...

One of the military's meanest fighting machines, the A-10 Thunderbolt, could be a key to victory in the war with Iraq. To those who've graced its cockpit, the A-10 Thunderbolt is known as the "Warthog ...

Congress is working again, and the A-10 is saved. That's the upshot of a story just out of the Military Times, which reports that House and Senate negotiators in Washington have agreed to send the ...

• A-10C 79-0087 final flight and homecoming: Monday, September 22, planned arrival 12:00 p.m.; museum opens 10:00 a.m.; admission by donation. • Fairchild Aircraft 100th Anniversary Homecoming: ...

The A-10 is a single-seat aircraft designed to perform close air support for troops on the ground. Although it is affectionately known by many as the A-10 Warthog, its official name, as of its debut ...