{"id":159945,"date":"2024-12-20T22:34:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/will-any-aircraft-match-legacy-a-10-warthog\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T22:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:34:45","slug":"will-any-aircraft-truly-match-the-legacy-of-the-a-10-warthog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=159945","title":{"rendered":"Will Any Aircraft Truly Match The Legacy Of The A-10 Warthog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> (USAF\u2019s)             <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 Warthog<\/span><\/span>, originally intended for one mission \u2013 namely Close Air Support \u2013 has captured the imagination of Americans. The stories told of providing Close Air Support \u2013 and also aiding in forward air control \u2013 directing other air-to-ground platforms and certainly rescues of downed aircrew behind enemy lines \u2013 make clear the A-10\u2019s ability and desire to get within eyesight of the soldier on the ground have made the A-10 legendary versus other platforms like the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-16 Viper that mostly provide close air support at higher altitudes and train less frequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining why the A-10&#8217;s legacy will be unique for specializing in Close Air Support.<\/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":[9056,396,5625,408,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-10-warthog","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-history","category-history","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159945","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=159945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159946,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159945\/revisions\/159946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}