The wing mainplanes have clipped tips and are straight, given multiple (three-to-a-wing) underwing hardpoints for the carrying of bombs, rocket pods, machine gun pods and precision munitions while also providing the needed inherent lift and drag for low-level flying. At the "chin" position is an optics fit (housing an electro-optical camera and data-link). The wheeled undercarriage is fixed and of a "tail-dragger" configuration while be rugged for short field / rough field operations. The tail unit seats a single vertical stabilizer and low-mounted horizontal planes in the usual way. As the T-Bird is developed from the existing 510G, it is powered by the same General Electric H80 series turboprop engine and this is used to drive a four-bladed propeller at the nose. Internally, the aircraft seats two in tandem and features all-modern glass cockpits (night vision capable) with Western instrumentation and avionics (the latter provided for by Aspen Avionics). The cockpit and engine sections are armored against the hazards of low-altitude, low-speed attack runs.
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Total Production: 1 Units
Contractor(s): LASA Engineering, LTD - Bulgaria
[ Limited Operation (Africa). ]