Old, Ugly ‘Flying Tank’ US Wanted To Scrap Shines In Hormuz Missions
New Delhi: The A-10 Thunderbolt II was built to kill Soviet tanks rolling through European plains. Decades later, it is hunting fast-attack boats in one of the world’s most strategically fraught waterways, Strait of Hormuz. General Dan Caine, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed at a Pentagon briefing on Thursday that A-10s…