Thunderbolt Strike Jet
Rocket strafing runs against vehicles and light targets.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 2
- Cost
- 440 metal
- Build time
- 25 s
- Hit points
- 360
- Armor
- Aircraft
- Speed
- 5 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 2
- Vision
- 10 tiles
- DPS
- 30
- Range
- 4.5 tiles
Production and tech
Counters
Weapons
Rocket pods
- Damage
- 18 ×4
- Reload
- 2.40 s
- Range
- 4.5 tiles
- DPS
- 30
The Thunderbolt Strike Jet makes rocket strafing runs against vehicles and light targets. Its four-rocket burst with splash is excellent against light and medium armor and useless against buildings.
How to use
Use it to answer an enemy tank column that is out of your army's reach: dive, fire, climb away, repeat. It is far more cost-effective than a Cobra against light and medium vehicles, but weaker against heavy tanks. Rockets are short-ranged, so the jet must overfly its target, which means flying through any flak escorting it.
Anecdotes
The A-10 Thunderbolt II was not designed and then armed. The gun came first — seven barrels, about the length of a car — and the aircraft was built around it, which is why its nose wheel is offset to one side.