Every few years, the Pentagon announces the same thing. The A-10 is finished. The retirement is imminent. The platform is obsolete. The money will go elsewhere. And every few years, something happens in a desert, or a strait, or a mountainous corridor, and the aircraft that was supposed to be dead is back over a target, pulling nine degrees per second, with a pilot who knows exactly what he's looking at.
And recently, real-world combat over the Strait of Hormuz happened. Suddenly, the Air Force found it couldn't afford to lose the Warthog after all. In this video, we'll talk about why A-10 stays in service to at least 2030, how the aircraft will change and what finally replaces it. Let's dive in!