Bye-Bye to BRRRRT: Air Force Wants to Retire 44 A-10 Warthogs

[rangerrebew]

Bye-Bye to BRRRRT: Air Force Wants to Retire 44 A-10 Warthogs

10 Feb 2020
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk

Despite multiple efforts to push the iconic A-10 Warthog's retirement date further into the future, the U.S. Air Force is now slated to shelve dozens of the Cold War-era ground-attack planes in the upcoming fiscal year, according to the service's budget request.

The Air Force will remove 44 Thunderbolt IIs from its total aircraft inventory, the fiscal 2021 Air Force budget documents say.

The service had already marked these A-10s for divestment last year, according to Air Force Maj. Gen. John Pletcher, the deputy assistant secretary for budget at the Air Force's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Management and the Comptroller at the Pentagon.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/10/bye-bye-brrrrt-air-force-wants-retire-44-10-warthogs.html

[PeteS in CA]

The article headline is misleading. Toward the bottom of the article:

Pletcher on Monday said the retirement will affect "the oldest and least-ready aircraft" in order to modernize a combat-capable fleet of 218 total A-10s across seven squadrons.

IOW, these were probably very down-rev, and non-operational - "BER", Beyond Economical Repair.