Saturday, May 05, 2007
Aging but Deadly
Three A-10 Thunderbolts from the 103rd Fighter Wing, Connecticut Air National Guard, trail behind a KC-135R Stratotanker on April 10, 2007. The aircraft are traveling across the country to their new home with the 188th Fighter Wing at Fort Smith, Ark., as part of the Base Realignment and Closure reorganization. DoD photo by Senior Master Sgt. Thomas Meneguin, U.S. Air Force.
The A-10 Warthog is a plane so ugly it's beautiful. In the Ferrari versus pick-up truck analogy, this is a lot closer to a pick-up and so much more useful, in the long struggle we're in, than the F-22 Raptor. Although the Raptor will be useful if we have to shoot down Chinese Migs and Sukhois.
Labels: A-10
