Armored or heavily armed aircraft designed to attack troops and vehicles on the ground, including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the Il-2 Sturmovik and the AC-130 gunship. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a ground-attack aircraft or gunship. It excludes fighters and strategic bombers. These aircraft fly low and slowly to find and destroy tanks, bunkers and troops, and they carry armor, cannon, bombs or rockets, which makes them a separate role from the fighters that fight for the air.
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Wikipedia: A-10 Thunderbolt II
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The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, also widely known by the nickname Warthog, is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the United States Air Force (USAF).
Wikipedia: Ilyushin Il-2
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The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War.
Wikipedia: Lockheed AC-130
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The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance, ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft.
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