The National Interest on MSN18d
The A-10 Thunderbolt II Is Slowly Heading to the Boneyard
The A-10 still serves the Air Force today after more than five decades in service. T he A-10 Thunderbolt II may be well into its fifth decade of service with the U.S. Air Force, b ...
The Aviationist on MSN8d
A Lone Two-Seater: The Story of the YA-10B Warthog
Designed for all-weather, night attacks, the two-seat YA-10B was meant to counter Soviet Cold War armor tactics, but only one was built. Project A-X The ...
The National Interest23d
A-10 vs. YA-9: The Fight for the Perfect Close-Air Support Plane
The smaller firm, Fairchild Republic, was much more thorough in ... The YA-10 became the A-10 Thunderbolt II (or Warthog), and would go on to become one of the Air Force’s most storied planes ...
Smithsonian Magazine3y
When Republic Aviation Folded
That fall, a Republic manager called to tell me the Fairchild Corporation ... some information on then-recent programs like the A-10 might be classified, surely there was nothing classified ...