Air Force To Keep All A-10 Thunderbolts

Published: Tue Jul 11th, 2006
Source: dc01-cdh-afa03.tranguard.net



According to Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley, the Air Force will keep all its A-10 Warthogs and almost completely rebuild them.

Moseley told Air Force Magazine that the 2008 program objective memoranda—the five-year spending plan—calls for thoroughly rewinging the A-10 fleet and funds the entire suite of precision engagement and structural modifications, known as the “Hog Up” program.

Moseley noted that while the service originally had planned to take 95 A-10s out of service and use the maintenance savings to pay for the mods, the Air Force has decided not to reduce the fleet after all.

Money to upgrade the A-10's TF-34 engine "fell out" of the upcoming five-year spending plan—the 2008 POM—according to the Gen. Michael Moseley. However, he said that he hasn’t given up hope.
In the Chief of Staff’s words: “That modification, that upgrade of the TF-34 engine, that’s where my heart is. That’s where I want to go.”
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