{"id":68720,"date":"2016-11-01T11:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68720"},"modified":"2016-11-01T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T15:32:46","slug":"popular-mechanics-a-10s-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68720","title":{"rendered":"Popular Mechanics; A-10s to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-500x242.jpg\" alt=\"A10 Thunderbolt\" width=\"500\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-500x242.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Poetrooper sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/a23537\/air-force-fires-up-depot-line-keep-a-10s-flying-indefinitely\/\">Popular Mechanics<\/a> article which reports that the Air Force has &#8220;fired up&#8221; the depot line to keep the parts flowing for the venerable A-10 Thunderbolt. The Air force had planned to shut down the program in 2018, but with no real replacement in the pipeline for the A-10&#8217;s close air support role, the aircraft has been revived.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Hawg isn&#8217;t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have re-geared up, we&#8217;ve turned on the depot line, we&#8217;re building it back up in capacity and supply chain,&#8221; AFMC chief Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski recently told Aviation Week. &#8220;Our command, anyway, is approaching this as another airplane that we are sustaining indefinitely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Air Force maintainers are also preparing to replace the wings of the A-10 fleet, tapping a $2 billion contract originally awarded to Boeing in 2007, which was intended at the time to keep the fleet flying until 2028. Some corrosion of the planes has been seen at the depots, but Pawlikowski says this is to be expected, especially on an aircraft that has been in service since 1977.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Grunts everywhere (except ISIS grunts) rejoice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetrooper sends us a link to the Popular Mechanics article which reports that the Air Force &hellip; <a title=\"Popular Mechanics; A-10s to stay\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68720\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Popular Mechanics; A-10s to stay<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}