207203 Modeler 1/72 A-10A thunderbolt 2"

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the Experience of aviation in Vietnam revealed the need to create a specialized attack aircraft that could perform the task of direct support of troops over the battlefield with maximum efficiency with minimal losses. The new aircraft was to embody the idea of the Americans about the ideal attack aircraft. To simplify maintenance as much as possible immediately abandoned the use of airborne radar. The aircraft had to be operated from unprepared runways - this is one of the reasons for the unusual location of the engines.

When designing the aircraft, great attention was paid to its combat survivability. The aircraft has an armored cabin, made in the form of a titanium bath, protected and filled with polyurethane foam fuel tanks, booking the main systems. On the attack aircraft installed 729 kg of titanium armor. The designers tried to provide even an emergency landing of the damaged machine, which does not produce the chassis, for which the wheels of the main landing gear are removed only half, thereby ensuring the sliding of the aircraft on the ground when landing on the "belly". Specially designed samostalna automatic gun GAU-8A1 (30mm, 1174снаряtoв, the rate of fire of 3,900 rounds./min.), equipped with uranium-core armour-piercing projectiles, is considered to be its primary weapon to combat ground targets. In addition to guns, the plane can carry 11 knots of the external suspension a large Arsenal of weapons: Bombs caliber up to 900kg (28хМк.82 – 225 kg or 6хМк.84 – 900 kg); UR AGM-65 "Maverick" x 6;hanging containers with guns SUU-23 (20mm) x 2; UR AIM-9 "Sidewinder" x 2.
the Experience of using the A-10 in real combat conditions generally confirmed the high efficiency of the attack aircraft when operating on ground targets, but the extremely simple electronic equipment required to retrofit it with a suspended sighting system "Lantirn" to give it all-weather properties.
the A-10 is commercially available from 1975 to 1984, 713 built production aircraft. The aircraft was used in military conflicts in Iraq and Yugoslavia. A-10 – the only full-fledged foreign attack aircraft, which on the complex combat effectiveness and survivability can be compared with our su-25.

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