The Embraer A-29 Super Tucano is a cheap, flexible turboprop built for low-threat counterinsurgency and Special Operations ...

The A-10 Thunderbolt II was built around a gun and a mission: survive over a modern battlefield while shredding tanks and ...

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 ...

The beloved A-10 Warthog continues to show its worth even though the Air Force is rapidly draining them out of its current fleet and plans to retire all the aircraft in a few years. Most recently, ...

The last A-10 in the Air Force will be retired in 2026, two years earlier than previously planned. In priorities for its 2026 budget released this week, the Air Force asked Congress for permission and ...

The A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" loaned permanently to the Weisbrod is the only one held by a Colorado museum. The Warthog flew 64 missions over Iraq during Desert Storm. Its pilot, Capt. Stephen ...

CEREMONY. YES, THEY CELEBRATED THE LEGACY OF THE 1/75 WING WITH MIXED EMOTIONS. THEY INCLUDED ANGER, FRUSTRATION, BUT ALSO WITH A LOT OF PRIDE. THESE ARE THE FLAGSHIP AIRCRAFT OF THE 1/75 WING AND THE ...

The aircraft’s planned retirement, included in the US Air Force’s fiscal year 2026 budget request to Congress, was moved up by two years. Next year will mark five decades since the Fairchild Republic ...

When an aircraft is built to fly low and slow in areas of intensive ground combat, one can expect that aircraft to take enemy fire. And if an aircraft is expected to take enemy fire, said aircraft ...

NAMPA — A departing flight from Gowen Field to the Nampa Municipal Airport on Tuesday morning marked the final voyage of an A-10 aircraft, which will now call Nampa its home. Over 100 plane ...

The A-10 Thunderbolt II close air-support jet, a mainstay at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, would get another year of life under a version of a key defense policy bill advanced Thursday by the Senate ...