Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) Vs Sukhoi Su-25 ...

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Your selected aircraft are compared in side-by-side arrangement below. You can always go back and Compare any two aircraft in our database. Some entries contain '0', 'not available', or an 'NA' value. This is more common with conceptual, experimental, and x-plane designs. Rotary-wing system (i.e. helicopters) values include main rotor diameter as part of width/wingspan measurement. UAV entries may display crew values as '0', not taking into account ground-based controllers. Subjects Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II (Warthog) Close Air Support (CAS) / Forward Air Control (FAC) Sukhoi Su-25TM (Frogfoot) Close-Air Support (CAS) / Ground Attack Aircraft Basics ORIGIN United States ORIGIN Soviet Union YEAR 1976 [Diff.-5 yrs] YEAR 1981 [Diff.+5 yrs] CREW 1 CREW 1 PRODUCTION 713 units [Diff.-311] PRODUCTION 1,024 units [Diff.+311] Dimensions LENGTH 53.3 ft (16.3 m) [Diff.+3.0 ft] LENGTH 50.3 ft (15.3 m) [Diff.-3.0 ft] WIDTH/SPAN 57.5 ft (17.5 m) [Diff.+10.4 ft] WIDTH/SPAN 47.1 ft (14.4 m) [Diff.-10.4 ft] HEIGHT 14.7 ft (4.5 m) [Diff.-1.1 ft] HEIGHT 15.7 ft (4.8 m) [Diff.+1.1 ft] Relative Size Comparison Shapes below depict aircraft from wingtip-to-wingtip / nose-to-tail assuming aircraft are being viewed from overhead perspective (the nose pointing towards the top of the screen). Helicopter widths include main rotor diameter. If any dimensional values are "NA" in the database then the presented shapes may appear skewed. Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II (Warthog) Sukhoi Su-25TM (Frogfoot) Weights EMPTY WT. 27,999 lb (12,700 kg) [Diff.+4,321 lb] EMPTY WT. 23,678 lb (10,740 kg) [Diff.-4,321 lb] M.T.O.W. 51,998 lb (23,586 kg) [Diff.+6,803 lb] M.T.O.W. 45,195 lb (20,500 kg) [Diff.-6,803 lb] Installed Power 2 x General Electric TF34-GE-100 non-afterburning turbofan engines developing 9,065 lb of thrust each. 2 x Soyuz / Tumansky R-195 turbojet engines developing 9,480 pounds of thrust each. Performance SPEED 439 mph (707 kph) [Diff.-151 mph] SPEED 590 mph (950 kph) [Diff.+151 mph] RANGE 474 miles (763 km) [Diff.-1,079 miles] RANGE 1,553 miles (2,500 km) [Diff.+1,079 miles] CEILING 34,695 ft (10,575 m) [Diff.+11,729 feet] CEILING 22,966 ft (7,000 m) [Diff.-11,729 feet] RATE-OF-CLIMB 6,000 ft/min [Diff.-5,400 feet] RATE-OF-CLIMB 11,400 ft/min [Diff.+5,400 feet] Armament STANDARD, FIXED: 1 x 30mm General Electric GAU-8/A seven-Barrel Gatling Gun mounted under the nose. OPTIONAL: Up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance across eleven underwing and underfuselage pylon stations, including: AGM-65 Maverick Missiles (IR/Laser homing) AIM-9 Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missiles 2.75-inch Rocket Pods Mk 82 Series 500lb Bombs Mk 84 Series 2,000lb Bombs Incendiary Cluster Bombs Combined Effects Munitions Mine Dispensing Munitions Paveway Laser-guided / Electro-Optically Guided Bombs. Infra-red Countermeasure Flares Electronic Countermeasure Chaff Jammer Pods Illumination Flares STANDARD: 1 x 30mm GSh-30-2 / AO-17A internal cannon. OPTIONAL: Up to 9,700 lb of external ordnance including rocket pods, guided munitions, conventional dumb bombs, laser-guided air-to-surface missiles/bombs, cluster bombs and air-to-air missiles. Also jettisonable fuel tanks as needed. Going Further View Entry (Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog)) View Entry (Sukhoi Su-25 Grach (Frogfoot)) Similar Northrop YA-9 Sukhoi Su-25 (Frogfoot) Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

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