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 airto 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 armourpiercing and highexplosive shells up to 23mm calibre. Its main weapon is the GAU8 30mm cannon. This fires footlong 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 A10 can use Hellfire and Maverick missiles as well various bombs, guided or otherwise. The song I used is Sonne by Rammstein.
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