{"id":65742,"date":"2024-06-15T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-a-10-warthog-upgraded\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:00:12","slug":"how-has-the-a-10-warthog-been-upgraded-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=65742","title":{"rendered":"How Has The A-10 Warthog Been Upgraded Over The Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Like the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the Republic Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II (known much better and more affectionately as the &#8220;Warthog&#8221;) is a quinquagenarian, having already celebrated its golden anniversary, i.e. its 50th birthday. One might think that, other than the fact that they&#8217;re both US Air Force (USAF) aircraft, the similarities between the &#8220;reptilian&#8221; Viper and the &#8220;mammalian&#8221; Warthog end there. After all, the former is a sleek, supersonic air superiority fighter plane, whilst the other is an ungainly-looking (I prefer that label to &#8220;ugly&#8221;) subsonic ground attack aircraft.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the F-16, the A-10 Warthog is over 50 years old. Also like the F-16, the A-10 hasn&#8217;t remained frozen in time, but has been continually improved.<\/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":[9056,396,10445,408,412,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-10-warthog","category-aircraft","category-fleet-upgrade","category-history","category-military","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65742","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=65742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65743,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65742\/revisions\/65743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}