Length Is 53 feet and 4 inches. Height is 14 feet 8 inches. Wingspan is 57 feet 6 inches. The A-10 is propelled by two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans. Thrust is 9,065 pounds each psi. Maximum speed is approx. 420 or Mach .56. Range is 288 miles carrying 9,500 pounds of weapons. Armament includes one 30mm GAU-8/A seven barrel gatlin gun, up to 16,000 pounds of mixed ordnance which can be 500 of retarded bombs (dumb bombs), 2,000 pounds of general bombs,incendiary & Rockey II cluster bombs,combined effect munitions, Maverick missiles & laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs; infared countermeasure flares; ECM's or electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; 2.75 inch rockets; & illumination flares.
This plane has a big history. It is also always forming the future by it's testing at some bases and the testing done on the weapons. One of the nost used plains today because of mobility.
