The Air Force’s decision to award the contract to Fairchild Republic—which went on to build the A-10 Warthog—proved to be one of the greatest decisions Pentagon acquisitions experts have ever made.

As I noted in one of my earliest published articles, “The A-10 Warthog Is 50 Years Old (And ... her airplane’s hydraulics and damaged one engine, in addition to disabling the flight controls ...

Quick. If I ask which American defense companies build fighter planes, what names come first to mind? Lockheed Martin (NYSE: ...

Michael Conley, head of the Air Force Special Operations Command, announced in March 2025 that the newly developed OA-1K ...

SOCOM plans to use these single-engine, fixed-wing ... the planes were to take over the kinds of roles played by A-10 Warthog fighter jets in Afghanistan and Iraq. Amazingly, the contracted ...

But the service’s previous efforts to cut planes like the A-10 Warthog and older F-22 Raptors ... platform and its accompanying high-tech engines are examples of the kind of research the Air ...

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It is a one-seater military attack plane seemingly based on the real-life Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog." Powered by two turbofan engines, the aircraft is fairly fast.