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On April 3, 2026, an American F-15E was shot down deep inside Iran. The rescue force that went in after its crew was led by A-10 Warthogs, flying a mission named after a Vietnam-era call sign: Sandy. One of them was hit and its pilot ejected over Kuwait. All three airmen came home. Less than three weeks later, the Air Force announced it would keep the A-10 flying until 2030. This is the story of the A-10 Thunderbolt II: a slow, ugly jet built around a seven-barrel cannon, designed for a Soviet tank war that never came, and sent instead to Desert Storm, Iraq, Afghanistan, the fight against the Islamic State and, in 2026, the war with Iran. It is also the story of the longest fight it ever flew, against its own Air Force's attempts to retire it. CHAPTERS 0:00 April 3, 2026: Sandy over Iran 1:33 The A-10 Thunderbolt II 2:00 Part 1: The gap 2:29 A-X and the fly-off 3:38 Part 2: The gun 4:18 The titanium tub 4:57 Part 3: Tank killer 5:16 Desert Storm 6:07 Part 4: Go ugly early 7:10 Part 5: The fight to retire it 8:44 Part 6: One more war, Operation Epic Fury 9:54 The drawdown 10:20 Built around a gun SOURCES U.S. Air Force A-10C fact sheet; Gen. Dan Caine, White House briefing transcript (April 6, 2026) and Pentagon briefing (March 19, 2026); Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink (April 20, 2026); U.S. Central Command; Air & Space Forces Magazine ("Inside the Massive Operation to Save Two Downed Airmen in Iran", "To War in a Warthog", "Last A-10 to Leave Depot"); Air Force Times; Military Times; Stars and Stripes; The War Zone; The Aviationist; Defense News; Air Education and Training Command ("The tank destroyers"); Air & Space Magazine ("The Day We Took Out 23 Tanks"); Congressional Research Service. Desert Storm figures (8,100 sorties, 90 percent of Mavericks) are the Air Force's; the 987 tanks are the figure the A-10 force was credited with. The quote cards are verbatim; the narration paraphrases them. FOOTAGE U.S. Department of Defense imagery via the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS), including U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and U.S. Navy footage. The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. No footage of the 2026 rescue has been released; the opening uses training, test and operational footage of A-10s, HH-60 helicopters and HC-130 tankers from other dates, and is labelled as such on screen. Narration is synthetic (Google Chirp 3 HD). Original music. #A10 #Warthog #A10Warthog #ThunderboltII #BRRRT #OperationEpicFury #MilitaryAviation #AirForce

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