Pentagon Official Issues Warning On The U.S. Air Force's A-10 Fleet

Airman 1st Class Joshua Kleinholz

Defense News: A-10 official issues warning over US Air Force’s ‘devastated’ Warthog fleet

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Air Force official managing the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft says the service is “hollowing” its Warthog fleet by starving it of resources amid a push to retire the aging attack plane — but still continuing to heavily fly it.

In a March 31 briefing, Pamela Lee, the A-10 systems manager at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, said the Air Force has “resourced the A-10 to divest yet flew it like an enduring fleet, rapidly accelerating [the] decline toward today’s hollowing fleet.”

The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight posted the slides Tuesday. The Air Force confirmed the slides are authentic, but said they were prepared for internal discussion and that Lee declined to comment.

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WNU Editor: The A-10 has been on the chopping block for years. But it looks like this time it is going to happen.