Dang! And just think, how long ago had the Air Force originally intended to retire the Warthog?
Just finished watching “Transformers” and there is a great scene at the beginning where there battling the scorpion transformer in the desert and they scramble the warthogs. But its the C- 130 with the cannon that does it in.
As aircraft are usually defined by the image of sleek, macho and sexy the Warthog is more than aptly named! Its no wonder those near sighted paperpushers ever allowed this ugly flying cannon to even be built, but it more than definitely gets the job done, and it brings home the pilot. There was news a little while back about these electronic upgrades, who knows maybe there might be a future for it even further, like a railgun?