50 Amazing Facts About The A-10 Thunderbolt

Operation Reduction

A-10_407th Expeditionary Operation Support Squadron commander, takesoff in an A-10

As of 2015, the A-10 Thunderbolt has flown about 11 percent of all United States Air Force sorties against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. That’s a reduction from what it flew in Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Afghanistan – about 32 percent of the combat sorties in both theaters.

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