The Scaled Composites ARES Agile Responsive Effective Support (ARES) is a full-scale proof-of-concept demonstrator that was developed as a concept in support of a US Army request for a Low-Cost…
The A-10 Warthog October 1975 saw the delivery of the first A-10A in production at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), in Arizona. Over the years, numerous enhancements have been made…
‘Curious, I grabbed his G-suit off the rack. Sure enough, there was a Sony Walkman (tape; this is 1983) in one of the pockets…,’ Pat Markwell, former A-10 Warthog Life…
‘All other things being equal (pilot skill, full weapons load, clear weather, etc.), the A-10 has the clear advantage and will win for the exact same reasons that it loses…
Without radar, how does the A-10 Warthog’s CCIP gun/rockets mode calculate range and impact point? A calculation produced by a weapon’s sighting system is known as a Continually Computed Impact…
“The A-10 belongs right there with the war birds, as it is legendary itself,” Master Sgt. Mark Aube, A-10 West Heritage Flight Team maintenance superintendent After nearly five years of…
In the early 1980s, the Night/Adverse Weather A-10 was renamed the YA-10B In the 1970s, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, popularly referred to as the Warthog was developed to offer close…
A-10 pilots fired inert training rounds of 30-millimeter caliber at unmanned boats positioned in the Gulf of Mexico to make training more realistic On February 6, 2017, fishing boats armed…
The Sukhoi Su-25, often known as the Frogfoot in NATO, was the Russian answer to the A-10 Warthog. The Su-25 was the first mass-produced jet developed by the Soviet Air…
Brigadier General Jim Demarest, an F-15 pilot and the Chief of Staff of the Florida Air National Guard, launched a campaign to honor the late Capt. Stephen Phillis with the…