Welcome Back to the Daily Aviation as we discover how the A-10 Thunderbolt II delivers powerful close air support with its ...

In an age obsessed with fast jets, the A‑10 Warthog stands out: slow, heavy, and centered on a massive GAU‑8/A cannon. Its ...

The gun the A-10 Warthog uses is a GAU-8/A 30mm cannon, designed and built by General Dynamics. It can fire 4,200 rounds per minute, making easy work of tanks.

On Thursday, we saw for the first time the brand new F-35B/C variant's GAU-22 25 mm gun pod firing, and as impressive as it was, it's not even close to the best gun on the force. What you're ...

Read: A-10 'Warthog' Thunderbolt II. The A-10 "Warthog" Gun. Even before the plane's design really began, planners built the A-10 Thunderbolt II around its main armament, the GAU-8 Avenger.

Dubbed Warthog, Hog or just Hawg, the A-10 Thunderbolt II is, basically, an airplane built around the GAU-8 Avenger 30-mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type cannon. The Avenger cannon ...

The Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is an airplane that refuses to die even if the U.S. military struggles to replace it. Even so, not every example ever built is still flying over an ...

There are few things more glorious than the furious BRRRT! of the A-10 Warthog's GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm autocannon laying the law on ground-based foes — and now we know exactly why the sound ...

When the gun is removed, the A-10’s tail must be supported to keep the nose from tipping up. In later years, people would say the A-10 was a plane designed around a gun—its 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger ...

The A-10 Thunderbolt II, a snub-nosed ground-attack plane nicknamed the "Warthog," is outfitted with a seven-barrel Gatling gun the size of a Volkswagen Beetle in its nose.

An A-10 Warthog, at top, flies in formation with other jets over the Giza pyramids in Egypt during a 1981 training exercise. The plane can loiter for an extended period of time over a battle.

The A-10 Thunderbolt bristles with weapons, from the GAU-8/A Avenger 30-millimeter Gatling gun (with 1,174 rounds) to Maverick missiles, 70-millimeter rockets, and guided and unguided bombs.