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Flares descend over a range after being dropped from a 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

Flares descend over a range after being dropped from a 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

A 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft drops flares over a range during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

A 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft drops flares over a range during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

A 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft drops flares over a range during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

A 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft drops flares over a range during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

Smoke spreads over a range after flares were dropped from a 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

A 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft flies over a range during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

A 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft flies over a range during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

Flares descend over a range after being dropped from a 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise

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Subject Operation/Series: CALFEX '90

Base: Eielson Air Force Base

State: Alaska(AK)

Country: United States Of America(USA)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Ed Boyce

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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