Drawing: Cobra Drawing: Cobra

A-10A THUNDERBOLT II (FAIRCHILD REPUBLIC)

Drawing: A-10A THUNDERBOLT II

GENERAL DATA

Country of Origin. USA.
Similar Aircraft. None, but compare with the Su-25 Frogfoot.
Crew. One.
Role. CAS, ground attack.
Armament. 30-mm cannon, bombs, rockets, Hellfire missiles, gun pods.
Dimensions. Length: 53 ft, 4 in (16.27 m). Span: 57 ft, 6 in (17.54 m).

WEFT DESCRIPTION

Wings. Low-mounted on the fuselage, untapered to the wheel pods, and equally tapered from the wheel pods to the blunt, curled under tips. Landing gear pods are under the wings.
Engine(s). Two turbofan engines in pods, mounted high on the rear of the body between the wings and the tail section.
Fuselage. Rounded nose, tapered rear, bubble canopy. Protrusion in the left side of the nose section is the 30-mm GAU-8 cannon.
Tail. Two tail fins on the tips of a rectangular tail flat; unequally tapered fins extend above and below the tail flat. Flat is low-mounted on a sharply tapered rear fuselage.

USER COUNTRY

USA.


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