Raytheon AT-6E "Wolverine"

The order for two aircraft was announced in October 2019. The two aircraft will be used in support of Air Combat Command’s (ACC) development of operational tactics and standards for exportable, tactical data-sharing networks.

I believe that one will be one of the two Beechcraft aircraft used in the Light Attack Experiment, and one new build. The first was delivered in December.
 
Yes, you do misunderstand. There were three production representative test vehicles, AT-1 (N610AT), AT-2 (N620AT) and AT-3 (N630LA).

One of these has been delivered to the USAF and now has a USAF serial. I'd like to know which aircraft, and its new serial. Another (this time new build) is due for delivery this year
 
[...] A-29s ordered by the Air Force [and] AT-6s [will likely] , Stanhouse said, be declared “excess defense articles,” a Defense Security Cooperation Agency term for equipment or platforms that are “in excess of the Approved Force Acquisition Objective and Approved Force Retention Stock of all Department of Defense Components.”

As excess defense articles, the aircraft could then be transferred to a foreign government, through either the approval of Congress or the usual Foreign Military Sale process.

“I think the probability is potentially FMS, because we currently have FMS partners who are flying both the AT-6 and A-29. So I think there’s quite a bit of foreign interest,” Stanhouse said.

Indeed, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the Philippines, among others, all have A-29s in their fleets. Thailand has also ordered the AT-6.
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https://www.airforcemag.com/air-for...small-a-29-at-6-fleets-program-official-says/
Sad for the Scorpion that was probably stolen from a more logical victory...
 
I'm sure all of those airplanes will find a new home rather quickly.
 
Maybe the purpose of this rapid withdrawal of the A-10 is to send some to the Ukraine AF ?
 
Very unlikely. Ukraine wants fighters, and is unlikely to gain sufficient air superiority to effectively use a plane like the A-10. Besides, the USAF has been trying to retire the A-10 for years, if not decades. It eats manpower that the service wants for other missions. And it's not obvious that it does anything that other planes can't do now -- it's increasingly just a slower smart bomb truck.
 

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