Air Force pushes back A-10 retirement to 2022:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/22...l?intcmp=hpbt1
Glad the Warthog lives to fight another day.Once again, the deadline for retiring the versatile plane has been pushed back, this time to 2022, when it would be replaced by F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. While the F-35 rollout has been less than smooth, the real reason the Warthog keeps avoiding mothballs is that it is perfect for raining fire down on desert-dwelling Islamic extremists.