Posted on Apr 13, 2022

Indiana's Guard Swapped its F-16s for A-10s a Decade Ago. Now the Air Force Wants to Send F-16s...

Lt Col Charlie Brown

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In the fall of 2010, the Indiana Air National Guard took on the task of replacing its old, 1990s-era F-16 Fighting Falcons at the Fort Wayne airfield with a fresh fleet of A-10 Warthogs.
But under the latest Air Force budget proposal, nearly two dozen of the Indiana Air National Guard's A-10s would be retired and the 122nd Fighter Wing would bring on new aircraft --
F-16s. Again.