{"id":154354,"date":"2024-12-03T21:30:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/northrop-ya-9-x-plane-lost-to-the-a-10-warthog\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:30:53","slug":"meet-the-x-plane-that-lost-to-the-a-10-warthog-the-northrop-ya-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=154354","title":{"rendered":"Meet The X-Plane That Lost To The A-10 Warthog: The Northrop YA-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"664838\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>A-10<\/span><\/span> Thunderbolt II, whose design earned it the name &#8220;Warthog,&#8221; had a challenger &#8211; the Northrop YA-9. The Northrop YA-9 was Northrop&#8217;s answer to the need for a close air support aircraft required by the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> A-X program. The Northrop YA-9 competed with but lost to the Fairchild Republic YA-10, which was then developed into the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Whether Soviet engineers were influenced by the YA-9A&#8217;s design or not,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2024275\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sukhoi-su-25-frogfoot-guide\/\" >the Soviet ground attack answer, the Su-25 Frogfoot,<\/a><\/span> bears similarities to the YA-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northrop YA-9 was a more conventional ground attack aircraft that would also have carried the same GAU-8 Avenger autocannon.<\/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":[9056,396,1880,408,915],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-10-warthog","category-aircraft","category-experimental-planes","category-history","category-northrop-grumman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154354","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=154354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154355,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154354\/revisions\/154355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}