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

[rebewranger]

A-10 official issues warning over US Air Force’s ‘devastated’ Warthog fleet
By Stephen Losey
 Apr 28, 02:24 PM


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.
 
https://www.militarytimes.com/air/2022/04/28/a-10-official-issues-warning-over-air-forces-devastated-warthog-fleet/

[rebewranger]

The AF has been trying to get rid of the A=10 for quite some time but congress has said no.  It looks like AF has figurted out how.  Let the planes rot until they become too expensive to repair.  Problem solved.

[ironhorsedriver]

transfer them to the Marines, they know how to use them effectively!