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U.S. Air Force loses Warthog attack jet near Hormuz
(defence-blog.com)
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Didn't the military request more recently?
Who names an airplane "warthog"? pigs can't fly and neither can the pig-pilots inside them.
Tbh I'm more offended that the US names its helicopters after indigenous people groups it's genocided
The Army has trying to get more of them for over a decade. The Air Force doesn't want them.
The same people who named the B-52 the Big Ugly Fat Fucker: The USAF.
It's officially called the A-10 Thunderbolt. "Warthog" is a nickname service members gave it. Similar to the F-16 Fighting Falcon getting nicknamed the "Viper".
I thought that was the point. They made a tank with wings and kept adding thrust until the pig flew.