A-10 Thunderbolt II

The “Warthog“ first flew from Davis Monthan AB in 1975 and was designed to confront the threat of massed Soviet armour pouring into Western Europe. To do this job, it was designed to be extremely hard to kill, able to carry a wide variety of air-to ground weapons and had to be able to fly with minimal support and maintenance. The pilot sits in a titanium armoured “bathtub“ and the fuselage can take hits from armour-piercing and high-explosive shells up to 23mm calibre. Its main weapon is the GAU-8 30mm cannon. This fires foot-long shells that weigh a pound each at a rate of 3900 depleted uranium or high explosive rounds a minute, just one of which would destroy most tanks. Also, the A-10 can use Hellfire and Maverick missiles as well various bombs, guided or otherwise. The song I used is “Sonne“ by Rammstein.