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This is the A-10 Thunderbolt 2. It is one of the fighter aircraft at Luke Air Force base in Arizona.
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May 24 2024; Farmingdale Republic FRG
Pima Air & Space Museum
General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm Cannon
The GAU-8 30mm cannon is the cannon carried by the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II. The 7-barrel rotary cannon was designed specifically to destroy tanks and armored vehicles and can deliver 3900 rounds per minute (65 rounds per second). The drum magazine for the cannon can carry 1174 rounds of ammunition. The GAU-8 is also extremely accurate and this has helped to make the A-10 Thunderbolt an indispensable close air support aircraft.
Pima Air & Space Museum
Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II
Called the Warthog by its pilots and ground crews, the A-10 is not the prettiest aircraft ever built, but it is extremely good at its job: killing tanks. Designed around a massive 30mm rotary cannon capable of firing up to 4200 rounds per minute, and with large amounts of titanium armor around the cockpit and engines, the A-10 is almost a flying tank itself. The A-10 proved its capabilities in the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War by destroying several thousand Iraqi tanks, and other vehicles.
