{"id":432801,"date":"2026-05-20T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-reasons-usaf-continues-operate-a-10-warthog-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:00:20","slug":"5-reasons-the-us-air-force-continues-to-operate-the-a-10-warthog-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=432801","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons The US Air Force Continues To Operate The A-10 Warthog In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The A-10 Thunderbolt II &#8216;Warthog&#8217; is the beloved aircraft the Air Force never wanted. It was a project of the Fighter Mafia that existed in the 1960s and 1970s. Also central were Army considerations and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2053433\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-failed-1960s-helicopter-inspiried-tiltrotor-replacing-blackhawk\/\" >the Air Force&#8217;s controversial lobbying to cancel the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne attack helicopter<\/a><\/span> that the Army wanted. The Fighter Mafia thought aircraft were getting prohibitively expensive and complicated, and that the Air Force needed to go back to simpler designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Warthog has outlived its usefulness in many potential conflicts, it retains an evolving niche and has psychological value.<\/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":[9056,396,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-10-warthog","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","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\/432801","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=432801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432803,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432801\/revisions\/432803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}