The 91st Attack Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve unit based at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, where it is an associate unit of the 432nd Wing operating General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper and RQ-
An MQ-9 Reaper at Creech AFB
91st FIS F-86A Sabre 49-1251
91st TFS F-4C Phantom II 63-7638, wearing the short-lived squadron code 'WS', July 1971
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, also widely known by the nickname Warthog, is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the
91st Attack Squadron
…Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Previously it was assigned to 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, USAFE, stationed at RAF Woodbridge, England, flying A-10A Thunderbolt II, until inactivated on 14 August 1992. The squadron's mission is to maintain combat-ready reservists to train and equip the combat air forces to conduct…
An A-10 of the 74th Fighter Squadron after taking on fuel over Afghanistan in 2011
By the time of the Vietnam War, the 1940s-vintage propeller-driven Skyraider was the USAF's only dedicated close air support aircraft. It was slow, vulnerable to ground fire, and relatively lightly armed.
The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne appeared to offer the possibility of handing much of the tactical air-to-ground role to the U.S. Army.
An A-10A of pre-glass cockpit design