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A-10 Thunderbolt
Purpose: air support, fight against ground targets
Engines:2 General Electric TF34-GE-100
turbofan engines
Speed: Mach 0.56, 680 km/h
Service silling : 13,636 metra
Maximum takeoff weight:22,950 kg
Range: 1100 km
Armament : One 30 mm GAU-8/A
seven-barell Gatling gun;
to 7,200 kg of different on 8 spots under
the wings and 3 under the body
Crew: One
Unit cost: $8.8 million
A-10 is a plane, which is called "tank-killer".
The plane is realy dangerous for heavy tanks
because it can take up to 7 tons
of different armament, and haves great aiming devices,
but he is very slow(680 km/h) and because of that the
plane is an easy target for enemy air-defense systems.
