A-10s
https://twitter.com/AlBuffalo2nite/status/2030811270073463070
The A-10 was designed in the early 70s for Close Air Support in Europe, especially against Soviet tanks. It's less useful now against modern tanks, but still useful against IFVs and other vehicles and against fortified positions.. It's designed to be able to use highways as runways if necessary. If the landing gear fail to deploy, its wheel protrude low enough to land gear-up.
That the pilot sits in a titanium "bath tub" is famously known. The engines are positioned to minimize exposure to ground fire. The Projection Unit (the USAF name for its HUD) gets power from two separate sources. If the main power is shut down or severed, it has a basic targeting reticule, adjustable for ordinance type (it can carry a lot of different "eggs" in a large payload in addition to the more famous GAU-8 30 mm Gatling gun in the nose), that runs on the 28VDC back-up power. Guess how I know about the PU.
It's a basic rugged, not super high-tech, airplane that has proven itself adaptable and useful to evolving battlefield environs and needs. The USAF geniuses in the Pentagon have been trying to kill it since the late 1970s, despite that usefulness.
BTW, the Fairchild Republic ancestor Republic produced the F-105 and P-47, and its earlier ancestor Seversky produced the 1930s vintage P-35.
