Designed to fulfill the same close air support role as the A-10, the Su-25 embodies many of the same attributes. The Frogfoot is a relatively slow, heavily armored, twin-engined, single-seat, ground attack aircraft intended to loiter over the battlefield searching for targets. Survivability and payload are of paramount importance, and both of these attributes have been tested in Afghanistan and Chechnya. With its full scale introduction in 1984, the Su-25 became the primary Soviet close air support aircraft.%n
