[Blood of Tyrants]

Air Force generals hate it. Grunts love it.

[taxcontrol]

Give them to the Army and Marines along with the pilots, support and budget.

[jmacusa]

From all the stories I’ve read, particularly from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, whenever any US Army unit, even the Marines, were under heavy fire and the A-10s showed up they felt like they were reborn. One soldier said ‘’Having A-10s watching your back was like having your big brother show up in a street fight’’. The Iraqis were poop scared of the Warthog. They called it ‘’The Monster’’. The pencil pushers and bean-counters of the Pentagon should have their butts down range sometime taking fire from the crazy goat humpers. They’d be praying like hell for one of these bad boys to come and save them.

[hattend]

F-35 ... is scheduled to replace it.

Realistically, that will never happen

[BCW]

the A-10 is one big piece of a$$ kicking!

I saw those aircraft on ranges before the war - and saw what they did in Iraq once over there...so did the enemy...this aircraft is not to be pi$$ed off!

[Da Coyote]

The Warthog should not only not be written out, it should be improved and kept in the inventory.

(I’ve flown fighters and trainers, but never had the opportunity to fly the A-10. It is one of two planes I’d like to try out. The other is the Mustang.)

And, of course, as previously stated...should you to be an enemy, never, EVER p*ss off a Warthog pilot.

[pfflier]

The A-10 fighter jet

Once again the journalistic community displays their excellent grasp of the facts.

The "A" designates it as and " Attack aircraft. If it was a fighter aircraft, it would be designated with an F eg F-15, F-22.

One airplane in the US inventory currently is co-designated an attack-fighter aircraft, the F/A-18.

It may seem trivial but credibility and competence is important in reporting. Ask Rolling Stone.

[servantboy777]

Reading accounts of this aircraft and her pilots are amazing.

Coming back in to base with holes riddled throughout, seeing the pilot home safely, leaving behind scores of enemy armor smoldering in a heap of ruin.

Just gotta love the Warthog.

[BluH2o]

This is an old story that goes back to the late 1980's.
Then Gulf War 1 came along and A/F generals opposed to the Warthog shut up. In fact the A-10 became the hot aircraft to fly for aspiring jet jockeys. That's where the action was to be found.
It's a practical aircraft, well designed for the mission its designed for & needs to be part of our weapon system in the future.

[Svartalfiar]

Getting rid of the A-10 would save $4.2 billion over five years, the best value with the least loss of aircraft, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welch told the House Armed Services Committee in March.

And how much would we save if we cut the F35 instead? wouldn't a couple fewer 35s save enough money to fully pay for all the A10s?

[OriginalChristian]

Its actual designation; A10 Thunderbolt is a more accurate description of the way it goes about its mission, like a thunderbolt. Its a perfect aircraft for its intended purpose.

[Moonman62]

The A-10 gets lots of love, but not from the people who like to steal money from the taxpayer.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Unloved? Unloved? Ever talk to a Warthog driver? I have several times...never met one yet who wasn't deeply in love with their little plane with the calendar based airspeed indicator.

Unloved. Right. By pukes with ties on.

[Slings and Arrows]

I love the Warthog.

Unconditionally.

<3 <3 <3

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

You'd think that with fewer and fewer aircrew seats projected for the air force of the future, the blue suit mafia would be eager to keep a plane that (for now at least) does a job a drone can't do.

But noooooooooooooo.............

[W.]

I saw an A-10 in flight over Toledo Express Airport a few years back, but it didn't expend any ordnance... ;)

[niteowl77]

If the USAF doesn't want them, there are lots of people in the Army who would LOVE to add the A-10 to the stable of "too slow but somehow useful nonetheless" aircraft.

Mr. niteowl77

[Mike Darancette]

Those long caravans of Toyota trucks would be their meat.

[IYAS9YAS]

As a former Zoomie, I can say I loved that plane. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. We had them at Davis-Monthan in Tucson. It was a blast watching them do their thing.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.