Warthog Aircraft

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential group of U.S. lawmakers, including John McCain, in line to become the head of the Senate's powerful Armed Services Committee, on Thursday pledged to thwart the Pentagon's plans to retire the U.S. fleet of A-10 "Warthog It’s highly dangerous, because it requires flying at altitudes low enough to discern friend from foe, leaving the plane particularly vulnerable to ground-based anti-aircraft fire. But the Warthog was specifically designed for close air support The A-10 Thunderbolt II, a snub-nosed ground-attack plane that the Maryland Air National Guard has flown in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the latest aircraft to find its way onto the Pentagon’s endangered weapons list. Here are photos of the A-10 taken by In an age of fancy unmanned aerial vehicles and stealth fighters, some of the meat-and-potato warfighting tools in the American arsenal get overlooked, but not today: The Blaze brings you, the A-10 Warthog. Officially called the A-10 Thunderbolt, this Relative to the A-10 Warthog, Textron's Scorpion has about half as much engine power -- but also half the weight. The aircraft's range is roughly equal to the A-10's, but the Scorpion is a better "sprinter," featuring both a faster maximum speed and a WASHINGTON — The A-10 Warthog jet has performed 11 percent of US Air Force sorties The fact that the A-10 is being used so heavily against ISIS will undoubtedly be raised by those who support keeping the plane, known for its massive 30mm cannon .

attacking hostile targets that threaten friendly forces or assets on the ground. During the week of Nov. 17-21, the U.S. Air Force moved a squadron-sized element of A-10C Thunderbolt aircraft from Bagram, Afghanistan, to Ahmed al Jaber airbase, in Kuwait modeled—as the name suggests—after the stick and throttle of the venerable A-10C Warthog ground attack aircraft. The stick itself is sized to match the A-10’s stick in every dimension, and Thrustmaster has also weighted each of its buttons and hat Some top Army officers say there’s no substitute for the protection the jet has long provided to troops in ground and you hear that ‘BVRRR,’ it just makes a difference.” The Warthog was routinely sent to protect troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 40-year-old, slow-flying Warthog is enormously popular among soldiers and Marines. The heavily armored aircraft can withstand ground fire while loitering for long periods above a battlefield spraying 30mm armor-piercing, depleted-uranium cannon rounds .

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