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title: "This A-10 with a P-51 Mustang paint job makes us want to BRRRT like it’s 1945"
date: "2019-09-25"
modified: "2019-09-25"
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  - name: "James Clark"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
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url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/a-10-wwii-paint-job/"
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  - "History"
  - "Mandatory Fun"
  - "Past Conflicts"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
  - "World War II"
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---

# This A-10 with a P-51 Mustang paint job makes us want to BRRRT like it’s 1945

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/21167355-1.jpg>)

Just when you thought the A-10 couldn't get any more badass, the Air Force has opened up the paint buckets.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-2305.jpg>)

Eat your heart out F-35.(U.S. Air Force)

The paint job was the work of the Air Force's A-10 Demonstration Team, based out of Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, and was inspired by the storied P-51 Mustang of World War II – a fighter-bomber that was the U.S. military's answer to Axis fighters and ground forces alike.

https://twitter.com/A10DemoTeam/status/1176904094910279680

The A-10 has an avid following across the military, and it's no surprise: The Warthog is a close air support death machine designed for a single purpose — to obliterate any, and everything, on the ground – which probably makes it the most beloved aircraft among ground troops. That and it looks like the fever dream of a rip-it and nicotine-fueled aeronautical engineer who decided to slap some wings on a giant cannon — the GAU-8 Avenger — and call it a day.

Seeing as the A-10 is probably the only U.S. military aircraft that still dive bombs the ever loving hell out of its targets, it's only fitting that it looks the part.

https://twitter.com/A10DemoTeam/status/1176705854361522178

The only thing that'd make this better is if the entire A-10 fleet got the same new – or should we say, vintage – look.

Check out the photos below.

## Author
James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a former Marine and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.

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