A-10A Thunderbolt II (1/32nd Scale) Plastic Military Model KitDetails: The A 10, a USAF product of the Cold War, was designed and deployed in the late 1970s to fight against the Warsaw Pact Forces in Central Europe. Instead it saw actual action under Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf in 1991. Subsequently, it saw action again in both Bosnia and later in Kosovo. In all these actual combat situations, the A 10 vindicated the objectives of its designers.