The Air Force says the A-10 Warthog isn’t suited for modern warfare. So why are we still flying them?
Lawmakers protecting jobs and commerce for their districts block the military from retiring outdated equipment, impairing effort to counter rapidly modernizing Chinese forces| Photographs by Ash Ponders for The Wall Street JournalEvery day, teams of technicians at a vast Air
Force base in Tucson, Ariz., tend to a fleet of attack jets the Pentagon has been trying to retire for more than a decade. They have picked replacement parts from the base’s famous “Boneyard,” where old military planes go for scrap, which stretches far into the surrounding desert.
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