What's the difference between a A-10 Warthog and an A-10 Thunderbolt?

Question

What's the difference if there even is a difference?

Answer 1

Well Mitchell... the name A 10 Thunderbolt II is the official name given to it by its contractor Republic Fairchild . The A 10 has to date the heaviest rotary CANON ever installed on an aircraft. The recoil alone is so powerful the A 10 pilot needs the assistance of onboard computers to stabilize flight. She can cycle 4,000 tank busting rounds a min, so its essentially a gun with a plane built around it ! Survivability was built into the USAF first ground support aircraft, so much so that this plane doesn't look pretty... Hence why its nicknamed " Warthog ".

The cockpit is a survivable armoured tub, it has the capability to still fly with one engine shot out, Its survivable to land with half a wing left, if it looses hydraulics its landing gear can operate by the wind and gravity! The fuel tanks and lines are self sealing. The canon is so huge that it offsets the front landing gear.

So no matter what you want to call her... the A 10 has a distinct sound that our enemies HATE to hear because they know what's coming, she's just our affectionate can of Whoop *** !!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GAU-10_Drawing.jpg

Answer 2

It's the same aircraft. The official name is the A-10 Thunderbolt II. The nickname is the Warthog, as it's a butt-ugly jet that spews out hatred and discontent from its GAU-8 30mm.



EDIT: Looks like someone's going to town with the thumbs-down button.

Answer 3

The 188th Fighter Wing located in Ft. Smith, Arkansas is where the "Warthog" name originated from. In Arkansas every idiot and their half uncle/brother loves pigs. It just so happened that a couple of A-10s were painted up with razorback tusks and had the pig painted on the tail. Some uneducated people saw the pig and thought that it was called the A-10 Warthog, the name stuck.



I do not like Arkansas



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a299/usmilobserver/Diverse%20A-10s/100330-F-5150M-001_650.jpg

Answer 4

Warthog is a nickname for the Thunderbolt. Perhaps because it is so ugly is why the troops dubbed it the "Warthog".

Answer 5

Warhog is a nickname for the A-10 Thunderbolt my friend. Same aircraft dude.



Like how the USAF P-40 aircraft is nicknamed the flying tigers during WW2.

Answer 6

nothing, they're the same plane the "Thunderbolt 2" is the A-10's official name but pilot's nicknamed it the warthog cause it was so ugly

Answer 7

Thunderbolt is the official name, warthog is the nickname.

Answer 8

They're the same plane. As others have posted here, "Warthog" is the nickname.



An A-10 is an attack aircraft. It's capable of knocking out tanks and other armored vehicles.

Answer 9

Thunderbolt is the official U.S. Air Force name that nobody ever uses much like the F-16 is supposed to be called the Fighting Falcon but nobody uses that name either.

Answer 10

nickname vs. official name.

Answer 11

ANSWER WHICH EVERY BODY ELSE HAS NOT ANSWERED !





THE NAME!