Oldest USAFE A-10 performing CAS in Afghanistan

摘要

For 17 consecutive years the Air Force has been conducting combat operations, flying its aircraft about five times the peacetime rate while forgoing any significant recapitalization.rnThis includes an A-10A Wart-hog, deployed here from the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, which holds the honor of being the most enduring aircraft in the United States Air Forces in Europe's fleet.