A-10 WARTHOG
Sep 03, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS TIM WILLIAMSON
“THE A-10 CAN TAKE DIRECT HITS FROM ARMOUR-PIERCING & EXPLOSIVE SHELLS”
The A-10 Thunderbolt is a single-seat, close-air support fighter jet that also goes by the names Warthog and Tankbuster. Developed for the US Air Force by Fairchild Republic Company (now Northrop Grumman), the original commission was for a low-altitude, low-speed close air support aircraft. Work on prototypes began in 1967 and its first flight was in 1972. There are several reasons why the A-10 has weathered 40-plus years of advancing military technology – chief among
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