Close Air Support

The A-10 Warthog is a legendary aircraft. Generally regarded as the greatest close air support airframe ever, the A-10 is best known for being built around a massive Gatling gun....

Close Air Support (CAS) is a seriously underrated task that the United States military has a very finite number of systems capable of performing. Warplanes like the A-10 Warthog and the A-29 Tuscano are about...

The United States Air Force saw thirty-nine—or nearly 20 percent—of its fleet of 218 Cold War-era Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support (CAS) attack aircraft retired in 2024. In fact, these birds...

Summary and Key Points: In the twilight of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force explored replacing the A-10 Thunderbolt II, known for its 30mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon, with a...

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It’s official: After years of heated fighting to keep the venerable and beloved A-10 Thunderbolt close air support aircraft in service, Congress is finally allowing the Air Force’s plan to...

F-35 vs. A-10, Explained: Emotionally, it was never going to be a fair fight. The grizzled A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthog” close air support aircraft, with its unmistakable profile, ear-splitting 30mm...

The U.S. Air Force is moving to divest as many as 260 A-10 Warthog aircraft to pursue alternative platforms for Close Air Support (CAS) given that the famous “flying tank”...

Widely revered as an unstoppable, resilient “flying tank,” the famous A-10 Warthog can absorb small arms fire, fly slowly at low altitudes to support ground troops under enemy fire, and...

Is the Air Force finally going to sunset the A-10 Warthog? After years of contentious deliberations, the arrival of larger numbers of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and the advent of...

Over the past two decades of counter-terror combat operations the world over, few platforms have come to serve as unofficial symbols of American military might quite like the High Mobility...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The A-10 came with a satisfying and brutally effective weapons system. The most famous armament would be the 30mm GAU-8 cannon. You’re probably familiar with the A-10...