5/15/2023 0 Comments A10 warthog tank buster![]() The lower tip of the Frogfoot’s nose holds a glass-enclosed laser designator. ![]() The Su-25 also has a Gsh-30-2 30-millimeter cannon under the nose with 260 rounds of ammunition, though it doesn’t have the absurd rate of fire of the GAU-8. The rockets come in forms ranging from pods containing dozens of smaller 57- or 80-millimeter rockets, to five-shot 130-millimeter S-13 system, to large singular 240- or 330-millimeter rockets. The Su-25’s armament has typically consisted of unguided 250 or 500 kilogram bombs, cluster bombs and rockets. The Thunderbolt’s mainstays are precision-guided munitions, especially Maverick antitank missiles, as well as its monstrous, fast-firing GAU-8 cannon. More importantly, the types of munitions usually carried are typically different. However, the Frogfoot has shorter range and loiter time, can only operate at half the altitude, and has a lighter maximum load of up to eight thousand pounds of munitions, compared to sixteen thousand on the Thunderbolt. And in their extensive combat careers, Su-25s have survived some really bad hits.ĭespite the similarities with the A-10, the Su-25 is a smaller and lighter, and has a maximum speed fifty percent faster than the Thunderbolt’s at around six hundred miles per hour. It also had armored fuel tanks and redundant control schemes to increase the likelihood of surviving a hit. Thus, the pilot of the Su-25 benefited from an “armored bathtub”-ten to twenty-five millimeters of armor plating that wrapped around the cockpit and even padded the pilot’s headrest. However, this would have exposed it to all kinds of antiaircraft guns. This meant flying low and slow to properly observe the battlefield and line up the plane for an attack run.įlying low would also help the Su-25 avoid all the deadly long-range SAMs that would have been active in a European battlefield. ![]() ![]() Like the A-10, the Su-25 was all about winning a titanic clash between the ground forces of NATO and the Warsaw Pact by busting tanks and blasting infantry in Close Air Support missions. ![]()
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