US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Joshua Bowman, Crewchief, 23rd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (EAMXS) patiently waits for his A-10 Thunderbolt II, 74th Fighter Squadron (FS), Pope Air Force Base (AFB), North Carolina (NC), pilot to arrive. With the A-10 mission complete, the aircraft prepare to fly for the last time at Tallil Air Base (AB) for their return to their home station at Pope AFB during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Tallil Air Base
State: Dhi Qar
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Major Command Shown: CENTAF
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Chenzira Mallory, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
The A-10 Thunderbolt has excellent maneuverability at low airspeeds and altitude and is a highly accurate and survivable weapons-delivery platform. Called the “Warthog” for its aggressive look and often painted with teeth on the nose cone, the A-10 Thunderbolt II is the U.S. Air Force’s primary low-altitude close air support aircraft best known for its GAU-8 Avenger 30mm Gatling gun designed to fire armor-piercing depleted uranium and high explosive incendiary rounds. In the 1970s the threat of Soviet armored forces and all-weather attack operations had become more serious. Six companies submitted aircraft proposals, with Northrop and Fairchild-Republic selected to build prototypes: the YA-9A and YA-10A, respectively. General Electric and Philco-Ford were selected to build and test GAU-8 cannon prototypes. First A-10 was delivered to the U.S. Air Force on 30 March 1976. By 1984, 715 airplanes had been built.
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