Why are we so obsessed with the A-10 Thunderbolt?

There's a lot of love out there for this tough old bird. he A-10's large, unswept high-aspect ratio wing and large ailerons give it excellent low-speed, low-altitude maneuverability. Those General Electric TF-34-GE-100 engines produce 9000 pounds of thrust each. The A-10's cockpit and portions of its flight control system are protected by 1,200 pounds of titanium aircraft armor, called the "bathtub." The bathtub can withstand direct hits from armor-piercing projectiles up 23 mm. he Gatling gun hoses shells at a rate of 3900 rounds per minute. It represents about 16 percent of the aircraft's weight. The A-10 has seen in action in every major U.S. conflict since and approximately 350 remain in service.

By the early 2000s, no one could argue about the A-10's effectiveness. And in the decades since the first production A-10A was delivered to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in October 1975, the simple aircraft has gotten smarter.

How little things change. Forty years later, some Air Force leaders still see the A-10 as too rudimentary for the battlefield of the future, preferring in this case the supposedly do-it-all F-35.

We all love it. But why??....

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