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According to unofficial sources, at the request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the United States is ready to give the eliminated front-line attack aircraft A-10 to Ukraine and put it into the battlefield to support the front-line combat of the Ukrainian army.
The development of the A-10 Warthog attack aircraft was developed in the late 60s and 70s of the last century, and a large number of equipment was used by the US military as a front-line attack aircraft until the late 80s.
The late modified A-10A attack aircraft had 11 pylons, 4 under each wing and 3 under the fuselage. Depending on the mission, it can be equipped with bombs, missiles, electronic warfare pods, etc. of different nature. The nose side is equipped with a Vulcan cannon. As a 30 mm caliber 7-barreled Gatling cannon, the entire Avenger cannon system is 5.9 meters long and weighs 1.8 tons. To make room for the big guy, the A-10's nose landing gear had to be placed on the right side of the nose. The Avenger cannon is positioned slightly to the left. When firing, only the barrel that turns near the central axis of the aircraft is protruding, so the cannon fire will not cause yaw torque on the aircraft.
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The Avenger cannon system typically has a load of 1150 rounds, and the barrel is driven by two independent hydraulic motors. Early models had a controlled rate of fire of 2100 rounds per minute at low speed and 4200 rounds per minute at high speed, while later models had a fixed rate of fire of 3900 rounds per minute. The main ammunition of the "Avenger" is the PGU-14/B depleted uranium armor-piercing projectile, which can penetrate 55 mm of homogeneous steel armor at a distance of 1220 meters and 76 mm of homogeneous steel armor at a distance of 300 meters.
The A-10 is usually equipped with six 127mm Zunirockets pods, sometimes with smoke screen warheads and white phosphorus flash warheads. But if necessary, just change equipment, these A-10s can still have the combat capability of general air-to-ground fire support.
But as a front-line attack aircraft developed in the 70s of the last century. His weaknesses are also very obvious. The flight speed is slow, the flight altitude is low. Bully a small country that does not have air supremacy. But for Russia, a powerful country with complete military industry and technology, air supremacy on the battlefield is firmly in Russia's hands, and this warthog is estimated to be insufficient to see on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield.