A Daily Report reader told us that upgraded C model Warthogs conducted operations in Afghanistan as early as November 2007, rendering our coverage of the latest A-10C deployment to Operation Enduring Freedom incomplete. The Michigan Air National Guard’s 110th Fighter Wing dispatched some A-10Cs to Iraq in late October 2007, but within a few days, Air Forces Central had sent the Michigan Hogs to Afghanistan, where they supplemented the force during the temporary grounding of the F-15 fleet. BRAC 2005 stripped the 110th FW of it’s Hogs.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.