Fairchild Republic
A-10A Thunderbolt II
[Fixed-wing close air support, forward air control, ground-attack aircraft]
Link to:
[YA-10B Night/Adverse Weather (N/AW)]
Controls:
1 -AIRBRAKES
6 / 7 - EJECT PAYLOAD
VTOL down - FLAPS/SLATS
TRIM - TRIMMING
GAU-8 Avenger build by specs. Also some visual/sound effects
Thank you WNP78 for health edit and ChiChiWerx for input
- Front Landing Gear is centered (no way for a side version to properly work in SP and get a straight trajectory during landing/takeoff. Not even angling)
- Gun parameters are correct (Rounds/second, velocity, optimal range etc).
- Level stable at max speed (439 mph at sea level).
- Trim tabs working as they should. They force the elevators (nose) in the opposite direction.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Successors 52 airplane(s) +281 bonus
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 56.8ft (17.3m)
- Length 52.8ft (16.1m)
- Height 14.4ft (4.4m)
- Empty Weight -38,192lbs (-17,323kg)
- Loaded Weight 32,708lbs (14,836kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 4.534
- Wing Loading 43.7lbs/ft2 (213.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 748.1ft2 (69.5m2)
- Drag Points 6267
Parts
- Number of Parts 399
- Control Surfaces 5
It called an A-10 Warthog not A-10 thunderbolt
It even kinda brrts!
a very nice build and easy to re-customize
thank you for this build
i had fun
Will always just download your jet fighters!
Amazing plane. Everybody likes the a-10
Awesome plane best A-10 replica I’ve seen
BBBBRRRRRTTTTTTT intensifies
you see, i made an A-10 in simple planes, this guy just made it irl
@BRRRT hahahah
31,000 downloads tho
also how do you make the plane background colored?
Good Day/Night
Is it ok to copy/borrow the Airframe of your Build to build my own A-10?
I will give credit after it is posted.
I am going to admit that I used 99% of this Build's Appearance to make my own A-10.
hey bogdan i have a question, im making and A10 and I want to know if its okay to copy some of your wing aspects. I want to do this because my own methods have failed and your wing operation during game is hella smooth. is it okay if i copy some aspects?
@TheXDimension32 lmao thats a reply to my old account below
Yeah, it’s smoother @DemXu
lol @BogdanX
This plane is more of a plane strapped to a gun than a gun strapped to a plane
Know that I’m late but do you think you could build an a10 with the ejecting engines? @BogdanX
cool, I like it
@BogdanX Your gun placement is accurate and so is your loadout, I don't have anything to complain about that. The nose gear placement is also reasonable because of SP physics limitations. The fuselage and details are very close to perfection and it's a great replica.
The flares are the only thing that made me curious, and I know this is a high-level of nitpicking. I didn't remember a pod for the A-10 with flares except for the large flares on parachutes which are used to light up the ground for better view. Even the A-10As used in operation Desert Storm in 1991 and the A-10As operated in Iraqi Freedom had these flare dispensers integrated behind the landing gear and schematics from 1999 also include flare dispensers. The museum model and some rare images of pre-1980 models are the only ones I have seen so far that don't have them.
Starting in the late Vietnam war IR missiles became very common and were death threats to pilots. Not having flares in the A-10 from 1980 would have made every mission a suicide job.
Even if you chose to not put the flares on for vintage style, then why put some on the ECM-pod? That makes no sense in my opinion.
I won't publicly upload an "overhauled" version just because of some very minor details like this, but I would upload it unlisted so you can see what I mean or use it for an overhaul yourself.
@BogdanX The landing gear is also offcenter on the real thing because it's more important that the gun is close to the center, as the recoil is strong enough to change the heading of the aircraft.
But in SP having offcenter landing gear would probably make it move sideways on the ground, so I'm okay with it beeing in the center.
In general this is probably the best A-10C ever built in SP and I really like it, but I know you are very precise so I want to tell you that you got the countermeasure dispenser completely wrong.
The ECM-pod (radar jammer) you put on it has no cm dispenser in reality, instead there are four dispensers with 30 flares each on both sides of the aircraft, right behind the rear landing gear in the fairings.
https://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a299/usmilobserver/A-10s%20OEF/IMG1598a-1000650.jpg
Because that would mean launching 8 flares at the same time in SP, I did some changes. I put the four dispensers behind the landing gear on both sides, set their launch force and ammo to 0 and then added a bigger one with 120 ammo (4*30) which covers a set of four dispensers and nudged it so that it's not visible. Now the flares are relatively realistic. In reality they alternate between left and right.
If you want I can upload it unlisted and give you the link.
@BogdanX I would really appreciate it as I have had numerous tries to make round fuselage and I always ended up with a polygon that was nothing like a circle.
It’s so cool for 400 details, omg
@BogdanX I always thought it was centered. Finally realizing it's off-center is almost as weird as realizing the Sea Vixen's cockpit isn't centered.
I just noticed the Warthog's gun is off-center. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.