Close Air Support (CAS) is a seriously underrated task that the United States military has a very finite number of systems ...

The United States Air Force saw thirty-nine—or nearly 20 percent—of its fleet of 218 Cold War-era Fairchild Republic A-10 ...

The hefty 57-foot, 6-inch wingspan close-support aircraft known as the "Warthog" has been in service since the 1970s, and was ...

A-10s are currently permanently stationed in around 11 airbases in the US and abroad, although this number is dropping.

In 2014, when the Air Force announced its intention to retire the Warthog, one company saw new life for the aircraft as a firefighter.

The Air Force sent at least 39 retired A-10 Thunderbolt IIs to the boneyard in 2024, a significant increase as the service moves toward removing the aircraft from its inventory even as it recently ...