Crazy videos show the A-10 Warthog doing what it does best — annihilating its targets. By Daniel Brown. US Air Force 2018-02-16T14:41:00Z Share. Facebook Email X ...

🛩 More A-10 Warthog Stories Here ... In later years, people would say the A-10 was a plane designed around a gun—its 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon, to be specific.

Won't Happen: The A-10 Warthog, renowned for its resilience and heavy ground-attack capabilities, is now being phased out by the U.S. Air Force, with discussions of sending remaining airframes to ...

WASHINGTON — The Warthog is sitting pretty. Once on the brink of forced retirement, the A-10 attack plane with the ungainly shape and odd nickname has been given new life, ...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Monday that the Air Force will retire the entire fleet of A-10 Warthogs, an aircraft that ground forces view as their guardian in the sky.

A-10 Warthog Top Speed. Most new aircraft in the past few years have been supersonic fighters, capable of 1.6 Mach (), 1.5 Mach (F-22 Raptor) or Mach 2.5 ().Meanwhile, the A-10 Warthog's top speed ...

The U.S. Air Force has all but given up on retiring the A-10 Warthog close-air-support jet. Instead, the flying branch is upgrading the tough ground-attackers so they can fight and survive in high ...

Certified Badass Plane. Why the A-10 Warthog Is Such a Badass Plane; The Air Force, Air Force Magazine reports, plans to cut 44 jets from the A-10’s standing fleet of 281 aircraft.

There’s a damn good reason the A-10 Thunderbolt II, lovingly nicknamed the “Warthog” by U.S. Air Force pilots, is considered the best close-air support attack aircraft in the Pentagon’s ...

Its roaring engine, ferocious nose paint and 30-mm cannon send ISIS fighters scattering like cockroaches on the Iraqi desert plains, but the legendary A-10 “Warthog” fighter plane may be ...

1990's -- An A-10 Thunderbolt II, from the 52nd Fighter Wing, 81st Fighter Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, in flight during a NATO Operation Allied Force combat mission.