![]() On 10 August 1972, the Air Force released proposal. ![]() The simple, effective and survivable single-seat aircraft can be used against all ground targets, including tanks and other armored. aircraft is designed to fly with one engine, one tail, one elevator and half a wing torn off.65. One 30 mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun up to 16,000 lbs (7,200 kg) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 lb (225 kg) Mk-82 and 2,000 lb (900 kg) Mk-84 series low/high drag bombs, incendiary cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, mine dispensing munitions, AGM-65 Maverick missiles and laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs infrared countermeasure flares electronic countermeasure chaff jammer pods 2.75-in (6.99 cm) rockets illumination flares and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. The A-10 Thunderbolt II, also known as the Warthog, is a twin-engine aircraft that provides close-air support of ground forces and employs a wide variety of conventional munitions including general purpose bombs. Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans Kevin Stout, commander of the 40th Flight Test Squadron Detachment 1 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., completes a test mission in an A-10C Thunderbolt II on March 20.
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