In the world of ground attack aircraft, two jets dominate the conversation: the A-10 Thunderbolt II and the Su-25 Rook. Both ...

Here is a shot of a Russian mechanic loading the Su-25's 30mm GAU-8 cannon, which can fire 2,500 to 3,000 rounds a minute. Russian Defense Ministry ...

The Su-25, and the Su-34, were the only armoured, fixed-wing aircraft in production in 2007 There are some similarities between the Su-25 and the A-10. For example, the Su-25 also utilises a dual ...

Su-25 Frogfoot: Russia’s Struggling Close Air Support Jet. ... The Su-25 is armed with a conventional cannon that will go through its rounds at a fairly fast clip whereas the A-10, ...

The development of the Su-25 roughly mirrors that of the A-10. The Soviet Air Force saw the need for a survivable low-level attack aircraft to supplement its current attack fleet.

Su-25. The Su-25 is an attack aircraft developed in the USSR in the 1970s. ... ・Armament: 30mm GSh-30-2 cannon, up to 4.4 tons of combat payload (missiles, bombs, unguided missiles) ...

New satellite imagery shows that Russia’s air combat power in Syria has exploded over the last 48 hours, with 12 Su-25 Frogtfoots adding to the four Su-30SM Flankers and about a dozen or so ...

The Su-25 standard armament: GSh-30-2 aircraft cannon, KAB-500 and KAB-1500 adjustable bombs, UAK-23-250 and SPPU-1 suspended cannon mounts, unguided aircraft missiles of various calibers, the ...

The final few frames of the optically-guided Lancet’s video reveal that the Su-25’s wings don’t blend with its fuselage-mounted inlets. It seems the thing the Lancet blew up was a decoy.