VANESSA BATTAGLIA: The F-47 Will Make The Air Force Great Again
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a joint press conference Friday — not about the judicial coup’s stymying of Hegseth’s military transgender ban, or an update on smashing the Houthis in the…
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About Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is a monoplane fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Republic Aviation. Designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 18-cylinder radial engine and produced from 1941 through to 1945, it became the foremost American fighter-bomber in the ground-attack role during World War II. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons, making it one of the heaviest fighters of the conflict. It is the namesake of a later U.S. ground-attack aircraft, the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II.
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