What makes the A-10 Warthog and the Su-25 Frogfoot so powerful? These legendary aircraft have seen action in some of the ...

An A-10 Warthog, at top, flies in formation with other jets over the Giza pyramids in Egypt during a 1981 training exercise. The plane can loiter for an extended period of time over a battle.

The Air Force's venerable A-10 Thunderbolt II is proving as impervious to Pentagon cuts as it is to the bullets of the ISIS terrorists who scatter like roaches when the fighter plane known as the ...

Capt. Kim, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot deployed with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, surveys the battle damage to her airplane. Kim’s A-10 was hit over Baghdad during a close air support mission.

Retired Col. Avery Kay, who died in October, is credited with launching the concept of the A-10 Thunderbolt, better known as the Warthog.

He closed down some Warthog units when he was Air Force chief of staff from 2008 to 2012. He acknowledges the A-10 is beloved, but says the Air Force has other planes that can protect troops on ...

WASHINGTON — The Warthog is sitting pretty. Once on the brink of forced retirement, the A-10 attack plane with the ungainly shape and odd nickname has been given new life, ...