{"id":104526,"date":"2024-08-08T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-does-no-one-produce-dedicated-ground-attack-airplanes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T09:00:12","slug":"bye-bye-a-10-warthog-why-does-no-one-produce-dedicated-ground-attack-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=104526","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye A-10 Warthog: Why Does No One Produce Dedicated Ground Attack Airplanes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/attack-aircraft\/\">Attack aircraft<\/a> have long been one of the main types of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">fighter jets<\/a>, but it seems they are a dying breed and will disappear in the coming years. Since the 1960s, the world has seen only two types of dedicated attack aircraft widely introduced &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/thread\/why-does-the-usaf-want-to-retire-the-a-10-warthog\/\">the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (in phased retirement)<\/a> and the Soviet Sukhoi Su-25 <em>Frogfoot <\/em>(actively fighting almost every day). However, both aircraft are out of production, and there are no directly planned replacements.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack aircraft continue to be used in the war in Ukraine, but they are out of production and their days may be numbered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9056,396,397,4490,412,6383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-10-warthog","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-attack-aircraft","category-military","category-sukhoi-su-25"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104527,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104526\/revisions\/104527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}