The A-10 still serves the Air Force today after more than five decades in service. The A-10 Thunderbolt II may ... to as the “Warthog,” the Fairchild Republic-created A-10 remains the sole ...

Pilots who have flown the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II in combat will tell you, gratefully, that the airplane is tough to shoot down. That hasn’t stopped the U.S. Air Force from trying.

The Warthog, is a simple and tough twin-engine jet that was built around the enormous cannon mounted in its nose.

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 ...