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AMX International AMX
🇮🇹 Italy ·first flew 1984· ground-attack aircraft
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Italian Air Force AMX fighter: Michael R. Holzwort, U.S. Air Force· Public domain
- 2. AMX International AMX-T, Italy - Air Force AN0326384: Alan D R Brown· GFDL
- 3. FAB AMX International A-1A - Lofting: Chris Lofting· GFDL 1.2
what is it?
The AMX International AMX was a ground-attack aircraft jointly developed by Brazil and Italy, designated A-11 Ghibli by the Italian Air Force and A-1 by the Brazilian Air Force. The Italian name, "Ghibli", is taken from the hot dry wind of the Libyan Desert. During the early 1970s, Italian manufacturer Aermacchi conducted a design study on a prospective light ground-attack aircraft, which was given the designation of MB-340.
How to recognise it: 1 jet engine · high wing · 8.9 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 42 years ago, in 1984.
- Top speed is 8.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Can fly 1.5× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1984-05-15
- introduced
- 1989
- retired
- 2024
- status
- still flying
- number built
- 192
- role
- ground-attack aircraft
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- makers
- Embraer, Alenia Aeronautica, Alenia Aermacchi
- engines
- 1× Rolls-Royce Spey 807 / RB 168 Sprey Mk 807
- crew
- 1
- length
- 13.2 m
- wingspan
- 8.9 m
- height
- 4.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 13 t
- top speed
- 1,053 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 13,000 m
- wings
- high wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q295466, Wikipedia: AMX International AMX (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.