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The United States announced it would send twelve attack planes and crews to Central and Eastern European to bolster NATO's Operation Atlantic Resolve, "an ongoing show of military might meant to deter Russian aggression in the region," The Fiscal Times reported.
In March, the U.S. Air Force deployed a dozen A-10s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona to Romania and the Czech Republic, according to the report.
Notably, the U.S. Air Force has long been campaigning for scrapping its A-10 fleet in a bid to save roughly $4 billion. Service leaders argue the plane’s close air support mission can be performed by other platforms, such as the B-1 bomber and the highly-anticipated F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the report said.