[alloysteel]

The A-10 Warthog is the one aircraft that should be rolling off the assembly lines RIGHT NOW, and supplied to the US Marines, the Israelis, and to Jordan’s King Abdullah II, as close air support to the ground troops.

The Warthog is for all practical purposes, a cannon with wings, a virtual flying tank, that can with a very short burst, take out most armored vehicles, and raise havoc with ground troops and convoys. It can sustain what for another airframe would be catastrophic damage, and still limp home, it can work out of forward bases with only limited runways, and it has redundancy built into virtually every control surface of the airplane.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A-10s fly overhead in pairs nearly every week.

[Menehune56]

Here's a really interesting thread from last year about how the Pentagon destroyed the A-10 tooling to ensure that new airframes would have to be developed.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3197085/posts

[Kickass Conservative]

The A-10 is what the P-47 was in WWII, both Flying Tanks.

Heck, I’m beginning to think that the P-47 would be better than what the Military wants to replace the A-10 with.