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

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A-10 official issues warning over US Air Force’s ‘devastated’ Warthog fleet
By Stephen Losey
Apr 28, 02:24 PM
Airman Brandon Kempf watches as an A-10 taxis into position after landing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., in 2013. (Airman 1st Class Joshua Kleinholz/U.S. Air Force)

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.”

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