AIRCRAFT: A-10A Thunderbolt

• TYPE: single seat battlefield close support anti-tank aircraft
  
• MAKER: Fairchild Republic
  
• SPAN: 57 ft. 6 in.
  
• LENGTH: 53 ft. 4 in.
  
• HEIGHT: 14 ft. 8 in.
  
• WING AREA: 506 sq. ft.
  
• WEIGHT: empty 24,960 lb., maximum takeoff 50,000 lb.
  
• POWERPLANT: two 9,065 lb. thrust General Electric TF34-GE-100 non-afterburning turbofans
  
• PERFORMANCE: top speed 439 mile/h., ceiling not relevant, range 576 miles
  
• ARMAMENT: one 30 mm. Avenger multi-barrel cannon and up to 16,000 lb. of disposable stores (including two or four Sidewinder short range AAMs, six Maveric ASMs, glide bombs with laser or electro-optical guidance, cannon pods, rocket pods, and conventional or cluster bombs) on three underfuselage and eight underwing hardpoints
  
• CREW: 1

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