Air Force shelves plans to retire A-10 claiming the aircraft is needed in the fight against ISIS

The rise of ISIS may have inadvertently saved the A-10 ground attack jets from retirement. Gen David Goldfein, the Air Force's vice chief of staff, said ISIS and a US air campaign have prompted a reconsideration of plans made by the Air Force to retire the A-10, which first joined the service's fleet in 1975. The Air Force's F-35 is expected to eventually replace the A-10 Thunderbolt, but the new jets have not been battle tested.

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