The Final Hog Has Flown in Europe

It’s the end of an era.

Of course, the Air Force has been trying (and failing) to get rid of the A-10 for a couple decades now, and I’m not sure they ever wanted it in the first place. It’s slow, it can’t dogfight, why it’s practically an Army jet — if those mud-on-their-boots types could be trusted with jets.

But nothing tears up tank armor quite like the Warthog, or does it with such clunky-looking panache.