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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
There are the ordinary A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, and then there are what one US Air Force squadron commander called "the coolest looking A-10s." Those planes are the ones rocking the ferocious shark teeth war paint, he said.
"It's not just any A-10s that have the shark teeth," Lt. Col. Matthew Shelly, an experienced A-10 pilot and the commander of the 74th Fighter Squadron, told Insider. "It's only the 23rd Fighter Group at Moody Air Force Base" in Georgia.
"There are other A-10 units that have nose art, but not the iconic shark face," he said. |
The first American planes to have the shark face nose art were the 1941 P40s used in China to fight the Japanese. The famous Flying Tigers.
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