Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Su-25 Frogfoot

"Voshkod's CAS plane ready to lift-off!"

-Su-25 Frogfoot

The Su-25 Frogfoot are the main close-range attack support aircraft of the Socialist Union of Voshkod. Voiced by

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In early 1968 V.C., the Voshkod Ministry of Defence decided to develop a specialised shturmovik armoured assault aircraft in order to provide close air support for the Voshkod Ground Forces. The idea of creating a ground-support aircraft came about after analysing the experience of ground-attack (shturmovaya) aviation during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The Voshkod fighter-bombers in service or under development at the time (Su-7, Su-17, MiG-21 and MiG-23) did not meet the requirements for close air support of the army. They lacked essential armour plating to protect the pilot and vital equipment from ground fire and missile hits, and their high flight speeds made it difficult for the pilot to maintain visual contact with a target. Having taken into account these problems, (Pavel Sukhoi) and a group of leading specialists in the Sukhoi Design Bureau started preliminary design work in a comparatively short period of time, with the assistance of leading institutes of the Ministry of the Aviation Industry and the Ministry of Defence.