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From: msmiller@glass.Eng.Sun.COM (Mark Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: A-10
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Date: 14 Apr 90 04:12:02 GMT
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From: msmiller@glass.Eng.Sun.COM (Mark Miller)
|>From: spiff@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Mark Schumann)
|>
|>	I was wondering, could anyone tell me what the A-10 "Thunderbolt 2"
|>is named after?  I vaguely remember a WW2 fighter named the Thunderbolt,
|>but Im not terribly familiar with WW2 aircraft...

That would be the P-47 Thunderbolt. Also known as the "Jug". It was a big,
fast, tough SOB of a fighter in WW2. It ended up largely in a ground attack
role partly bacause it could carry a lot of stores (I think it had like
5 hardpoints) but also because they found that the P-51 kept shedding its
wings on high-speed bombing runs. I think the N version was capable of over
450 mph, but I don't have any reference stuff with me now.
	-MSM

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