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US Air Force Technical Sergeant Todd Chapman, 303rd Expeditionary Fighter Sqaudron, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, does a routine check of an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. (Duplicate image, see also DF-SD-02-01374 or search 001212-F-0751D-004)
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US Air Force Technical Sergeant Todd Chapman from the 303rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, does a routine check of an A-10 aircraft. This is the first time the A-10 has been a part of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. (Duplicate image, see also DF-SD-01-08086 or search 001212-F-0751D-004)
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Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN WATCH
Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana
Country: Turkey (TUR)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Kimberlie E Drews, 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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