The Frogfoot uses different munitions and has a smaller gun, but like the Warthog it is designed to attack concentrations of vehicles and infantry, concentrations that have become extremely commonplace during the Russia-Ukraine War.Īs most readers are aware, while the A-10 has performed effectively in numerous conflicts since its development in the early 1970s it has never been a favorite of the US Air Force.
The Frogfoot is smaller, lighter, and faster than the Warthog, although it has many of the same “flying tank” characteristics and was designed for essentially the same mission. The Frogfoot and the Warthog are hardly the same aircraft, even as they perform very similar missions. The Frogfoot began production in the USSR 1978, a few years after Congress forced the Air Force to follow through on its plans to develop and adopt its own tank-busting ground attack aircraft. The Frogfoot is a rough contemporary of the storied American A-10 “Warthog,” and as such we can begin to draw some tentative conclusions about the future of the Warthog from the experience of the Frogfoot. In the Russia-Ukraine War both sides are using so much Soviet-era equipment that the Russians have had visually distinguished their own vehicles with the now-famous “Z.” Among the best known aircraft to operate on both sides of the fight has been the Su-25 “Frogfoot” jet attack aircraft.
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