Defending the A-10

Reader Robert Owen puts forth that the world has changed as an argument for retiring the A-10 (AW&ST Nov. 25, p. 8). Well the world may have changed, but the aircraft is still relevant. A-10s can be fitted with directional infrared countermeasures to neutralize improved surface-to-air missile...

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