“The US Air Force spent the better part of a decade trying to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II, requesting $57M in its fiscal year 2026 budget submission to decommission the remaining 162 aircraft, two years ahead of its own previously stated schedule.”
Not the point of the article but it says a lot about our military that it takes $57 million to “decommission” a hundred old aircraft. How about just parking them somewhere for free and letting them rot? Maybe have a mechanic drain the fluids first. The problem we have is that we do practically everything in the most wildly expensive way. Think how many cheap drones $57 million could buy.
Think how many air show pilots would take an A-10 for free.