Thunderbolt

“	Thunderbolts are light attack planes -- these birds of prey strike hard and fast.	”
	— In-game description

“	Strafing across enemy lines the Thunderbolt carves a wide path of destruction in seconds.	”
	— Level 10 description

Basic Info

Splash Damage	Space	Infantry	Vehicle	Air	Building
Yes	75	OK	OK	Can't Hit	OK

Upgrade Progression

Level	Upgrade Cost			UpgradeTime	AcademyLevel	Production Cost		Speed	Health	Range	Damage (DPS)
	Metal	Oil	Thorium			Metal	Oil
1	400,000	480,000	0	18h	5	12,000	15,000	12	800	200	700
2	300,000	360,000	0	9h	5	15,600	20,250	12	850	225	900
3	450,000	540,000	0	10h 48m	5	20,280	27,338	12	900	250	1000
4	675,000	810,000	0	12h 58m	6	13,182	18,453	12	950	275	1100
5	1,012,500	1,215,000	0	15h 34m	7	17,137	24,911	12	1,000	300	1200
6	1,518,750	1,822,500	0	18h 41m	7	44,556	67,260	12	1,050	325	1300
7	2,278,130	2,733,800	0	22h 25m	8	28,961	45,401	12	1,100	333	1400
8	3,417,200	4,100,600	0	1d02h54m	8	37,649	61,291	12	1,150	341	1500
9	5,125,800	6,151,000	0	1d08h17m	9	90,000	175,000	12	1,200	350	1600
10	7,688,700	9,226,400	500,000	5s	10	125,000	200,000	12	1,500	360	1700
11	11,533,050	13,839,700	500,000	5s	10	125,000	200,000	12	1,650	360	1870
Total	34,399,130	41,279,000	1,000,000

Repair time at level 9: 16m 30s

Repair time at lvl 10: same as lvl 9.

Fun Facts

• The Thunderbolt, in real life, is the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II that is armed with the GAU-8 Avenger.

• The A10 thunderbolt (sometimes referred to as the warthog) is actually a tank killer and is heavily armored in real life, making it a "flying tank' for whatever reason kixeye over looked this and replaced this role with the raptor. 
• Thunderbolts appear to carry some kind of missile or rockets, but they only fire bullets.
• At level 10, the thunderbolt features a wider strafing run.
• If you use 10 Elite/Warhawks a good choice for another unit is the thunderbolt, this is because warhawks are horrible against infantry but last stand infantry all spawn in the same place you can time it correctly you can kill all of them in one swoop and quickly retreat it you will kill all the infantry and not run into any turrets saving both the thunderbolt and the Warhawks. 
• It is prefered to the Raptor as it as a lower space requirement.
• They are great to kill last stand defenders.
• They are sometimes used all at once to take out all of the Resource Containers in a level 30 Rouge Faction Base. And when they destroy them all they immediately press End Attack.
• The Thunderbolt fires bullets which tanks are highly immune to, but a group of 10 Thunderbolts can destroy 3 out 10 of a group of challengers in a platoon because their bunched together like a grid.
• Thunderbolts are terrible against Mega Tanks since they're extremely resistant to bullets; it takes over 20 sweeps to kill a platoon of lvl 8 Mega Tanks.
• The cockpit is covered by a sheet.
• Before the release of War Commander Beta, Thunderbolts had slower speed.
• Thunderbolts have considerable range, which enables them to take out targets like Tanks and Mortar Towers more effectively than other Air Units.
• The fact that the Thunderbolt is a fast-flying strafing attacker limits the use of Flak Turrets and Flak Tanksagainst it.