If killing the A-10 program is the Air Force’s solution for paying for the F-47, then the Air Force is truly lost. President Donald J. Trump’s decision to award Boeing the contract for the new “Next ...

Given the Pentagon’s antipathy toward the A-10, its proponents should offer meaningful ways to keep it relevant in the modern era—such as the incorporation of unmanned aerial drones.

The Air Force’s decision to award the contract to Fairchild Republic—which went on to build the A-10 Warthog—proved to be one of the greatest decisions Pentagon acquisitions experts have ever made.