{"id":64790,"date":"2024-06-13T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-does-a-10-warthog-support-ground-troops\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T01:00:13","slug":"how-does-the-a-10-warthog-support-ground-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=64790","title":{"rendered":"How Does The A-10 Warthog Support Ground Troops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Hard to believe as this may seem. the Republic Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, known much better as the &#8220;Warthog,&#8221; is already a quinquagenarian, having celebrated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/the-a-10-warthog-is-50-years-old-and-is-still-a-tank-killing-machine\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >50th &#8220;BRRRT-Day&#8221; (birthday)<\/a> back on May 10, 2022. Alas, as the proverb\/clich goes, &#8220;All good things must come to an end,&#8221; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/primary-role-of-united-states-air-force\/\">U.S. Air Force<\/a> brass is planning to retire the Warthog, in spite of the best efforts by many members of Congress to block that retirement and forestall the inevitable.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAF brass wants to retire the A-10. That won&#8217;t please American ground troops, who&#8217;ll miss the Warthog&#8217;s close air support (CAS) capabilities.<\/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":[9056,396,10378,412,1384,8513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-10-warthog","category-aircraft","category-fairchild-aircraft","category-military","category-us-air-force","category-us-army"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64790","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=64790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64791,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64790\/revisions\/64791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}