Of all the animals, I would rate Warthogs as one of the most flightless. Odd choice.
Warthog is a nickname that they couldn’t get rid of. It’s officially the Thunderbolt II.
I think its kind of dumb because the P-47 Thunderbolt was a high altitude interceptor/fighter that also happened to be good at ground pounding.
The A-10 is exclusively a ground pounder that becomes a sitting duck if it ever gets caught with its pants down.
Dunno why they copted a fighter name.
A-10 is live target practice for Iran’s domestically produced manpads. It should not be anywhere near this conflict. That they are using it at all shows massive incompetence.
it’s a good Friday
Don’t think that plane is going to rise again in three days.
Isn’t this the one that goes Brrrrrrt?!
Well now it goes brrrrrrn’t
Many of our GAU-8s have A-10s installed on them. One fewer now, apparently.
I’m not an expert, but I’ve read that A-10s don’t have very good missile defenses, and they will be pretty vulnerable in Iran, which is stuffed full of missiles
The planes are like 40 years old
Wikipedia says they were built from 1072-1984 so yeah, old.
But we don’t have anything to replace it for super low ground support like that.
Everyone else uses drones for that, for a reason.
Didn’t the military request more recently?
Who names an airplane “warthog”? pigs can’t fly and neither can the pig-pilots inside them.
I thought that was the point. They made a tank with wings and kept adding thrust until the pig flew.
The same people who named the B-52 the Big Ugly Fat Fucker: The USAF.
Who names an airplane “warthog”? pigs can’t fly and neither can the pig-pilots inside them
Tbh I’m more offended that the US names its helicopters after indigenous people groups it’s genocided
If that kills that goddamn brain dead “brrt” meme, I will officially proclaim this to be a positive effect of this war
that’s impressive. those things are armored like tanks that fly.
Tanks that don’t fly aren’t doing that hot these days either. Slapping a red bull on it didn’t help
