BUT – the questions still stand. The range/payload figures don’t look as if they can be explained by poor metric/imperial conversions.

What if the longer fuselage increases lift over drag considerably. Also swans fly really high and cover long distances.

Here is the “ugly duckling” near the Bothnic Sea on a river ( an hour ago ).

755 kg was a total amount devoted for protection and only 2/3 of that weight was for the titanium armor if I recall correctly.

You know what would also be nice ? For MoD stop ******* around and provide the funding for Tula to finish Hermes ******* A’s

Is Tula Hermes a two stage medium range missile system ?

http://www.russiadefence.net/t339-the-missile-complex-hermes-will-replace-ataka

How big a difference is the 270 km/h slower top speed on A-10 ?

So we know what Ken has been up to lately.

Ken has been very busy; http://www.flankers-site.co.uk/other_aircraft_portal.htm

Interesting display with a no smoky MiG-29 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_nT_R3IklY
Don’t know if info is good, but pilot seems to be captain Adrian ROJEK,not really physically as interesting as your female pilot :apologetic: :

Ok I was then misinformed about the pilot.

Su-25 doesn’t use a gattling gun, Gsh-30-2 is a gast gun. GAU-8 weigh ~3 times as much as GSh-30-2, and A-10 carries ammunition for ~3 times long firing time. Simply put, A-10 is built around GAU-8, Su-25’s design doesn’t prioritize a gun and have it in the lightest way possible.

I don’t think anyone can know anything about RCS of Su-25 or A-10, but I don’t think A-10’s RCS will be smaller, when it has two huge fans faces in the open and a much more complicated shaping, and a larger airframe.

It is still 3000 rpm gun; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryazev-Shipunov_GSh-30-2