A-01 Blitz

In the 1990s. the U.S. Air Force phased out history's best ground attack plane, the A-10 Thunderbolt Il, on the grounds that it was "obsolete." (The real reason was that the ex-fighter pilots in charge of fie USAF wanted nothing to do with any aircraft designed by, and for use with, the U.S. Army.) As soon as the USAFs terrestrial mission was revoked, the Army commissioned an updated replacement to the A-10. The result was the A-01 Blitz, entering service in 2001. It remains the best single-seat ground-attack aircraft in the world.

Special Equipment
IR baffling, damage control, ejection seat, 12 man-hours life support 2 chaff and 2 flare dispensers, military radio with scrambler, satellite uplink, microwave rangefinder, auto-pilot and navigation system, cybernetic link-age, ECM, ECCM, image enhancement, laser detector, magnetometer, military radar with look-clown and terrain-following, military radar detector, telescopic optics. thermograph.

Weapons
30mm Gatling fixed forward with extra magazine and +3 fire control computer, stabilized painting laser in articulated mount forward.40 spaces of pod weapons on the wings.