The GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling Gun is the A-10. Remove that gun or modify it in any way, and you end the A-10. That’s why one notion floating around the internet – to make a carrier-based version ...

Ground tests of the GAU-8 went pretty much according to plan, but once they installed it in the Y-A-10 and tried taking the gun aloft for air trials in March 1974, major problems quickly cropped up.

The Warthog, is a simple and tough twin-engine jet that was built around the enormous cannon mounted in its nose.