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A-10 Thunderbolt II

A-10 Thunderbolt II · Fielded · U.S. Air Force

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FieldedU.S. Air ForceA-10A-10CWarthogThunderbolt II

About

The A-10 Thunderbolt II is a twin-engine U.S. Air Force attack jet built for close air support of ground troops. It is designed to fly slow and low near the fight, operate from rough airfields and survive battle damage, and it carries a 30mm GAU-8/A Gatling gun. The current version is the A-10C.

Contracts$954M obligated since FY2008

Contractors8

  1. Boeing$741M 78%
  2. Lockheed Martin$106M 11%
  3. Northrop Grumman$53.9M 5.6%
  4. BAE Systems$35.7M 3.7%
  5. RTX$12.0M 1.3%
  6. General Dynamics$4.7M 0.5%
  7. Honeywell International$1.1M 0.1%
  8. GE Aerospace$383K 0.0%

Awards50

Obligations are signed USAspending prime-contract actions coded to this program, FY2008 to date, credited to the company that received each action. Obligations are money committed, not company revenue.