- DCS
- Primary Function: A-10 — close air support, airborne forward air control, combat search and rescue
- Contractor: Fairchild Republic Co.
- Power Plant: Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans
- Thrust: 9,065 pounds each engine
- Length: 53 feet, 4 inches (16.16 meters)
- Height: 14 feet, 8 inches (4.42 meters)
- Wingspan: 57 feet, 6 inches (17.42 meters)
- Maximum Takeoff Weight: 51,000 pounds (22,950 kilograms)
- Crew: One
- Date Deployed: March 1976
- Unit Cost: $9.8 million (fiscal 98 constant dollars)
- Inventory: Total Force – approximately 281
- Maximum Range: 800 miles (695 nautical miles)
- Maximum Ceiling: 45,000 feet (13,636 meters)
- Maximum Speed: 420 miles per hour (Mach 0.56)
- Armament: One 30mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 pound (225 kilograms) Mk-82 and 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) Mk-84 series low/high drag bombs, incendiary cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, mine dispensing munitions, AGM-65 Maverick missiles, laser-/GPS-guided bombs, unguided and laser-guided 2.75-inch (6.99 centimeters) rockets; infrared countermeasure flares; electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; illumination flares and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
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