This is John Batchelor, conversation with General Blaine Holtz, the United States Air Force retired

about the plan that now underway in the Iran War to bring back an aircraft from the 20th century, the A-10 Wardhog, it is called.

Blaine very carefully describes why and why now and how it would be used in the event that there is

marine ground operations necessary in Iran.

Here's General Blaine Holt, much more of this tonight.

So the way that you would employ it is, especially if our Marines have to get involved with securing

Karg Island or parts of the Straits, you would put the A10s up and loiter them with air refueling

bridges over the top of them.

This is what we did in Afghanistan.

And then they would be on-call close air support, whether it was to support the Marines that are calling in for air support, or whether it's detecting launchers or detecting drone activity going at the ships, going at our forces.

They can be just very formidable.

And then they're not robotic. So they can be just very formidable. And then they're not robotic.

So they can be directed to targets,

but the pilots also have their own rules of engagement

and can see targets of opportunity

and engage them themselves.