Kazoom, new A-40 Havoc II, guys and gals.

A wise man once said, "As long as we are on this side of Heaven, the A-40 Havoc II will be exploited." So I made another A-40 variant finally, and no it's not the much-anticipated A-40D lol

Meet the A-40C-R1. Notice how he sports a similar "crown" to that of Yeet-U or the A-40Si.

After what felt like an eternity, we finally have an official new variant for the A-40. The A-40C-R1 (the R1 standing for Revision 1) may not be the A-40D we were all prepared for, but the R1 can still pack an insane punch.

An ominous silhouette in the night...

For starters, despite being an A-40C, it no longer has the OPPENHEIMER-class nuclear missile, in hopes of the R1 being a more "conventional attack aircraft" (despite still possessing the armaments required to blast continents to smithereens). However, the A-40C-R1 does add a few new features, namely...

-Four 50mm and four 100mm cannons, high explosive. Not great against aircraft, but devastating for ground units to deal with.

Test-firing the 50mms.

Test-firing the 100mms.

Aftermath of the 100mms in combat.

Also features two new types of missiles:

-12x "Calli" missiles, taken from and thus named after the Calliope Sherman. The Calli missiles uniquely fire backwards, so if you didn't think the A-40C was already hard enough to counter, now you can't even find refuge in flying behind it (not that you ever could).

-8x FRCM S-25M missiles, the newest, most advanced, and hardest to dodge missile in the entire MDA. Not much to say here, but about time the A-40 got them.

The A-40C-R1 also has some differences which are solely aesthetic, as well as some other technical changes.

Aesthetic:
-The A-40's blue-and-teal color scheme has been slightly changed, now moving to light blue accents instead of dark blue.
-As mentioned far earlier, the A-40C-R1 now sports the "TUPL crown," a decal donned by Yeet-U, the A-40Si, and now the A-40C-R1.
-The R1 has large wingtips now. Their addition to flight performance is questionable if present, but they serve a good functional purpose of carrying the FRCM S-25Ms. In theory, they can be further used to expand the A-40's arsenal.
-The text-made USAF roundel has been removed in hopes of reducing juuust a little bit of lag. Of course, it's not too effective considering the remainder of the plane is literally covered in explosive munitions. This thing is legitimately closer to a flying armory than an attack aircraft...

Technical:
-The drone's cannons now also require AG8 to activate, so you can purely enjoy the devastating havoc beam by turning off AG8 and turning on AG5.
-The landing gear has been made more durable upgraded to make it slightly less dangerous. It's not perfect, but it's better than where we were. Still land with much caution, and expect the worse if landing with maximum payload and/or flying over 180 mph, as well as landing hard instead of gliding it in.
-The landing gear in question has also been extended, to reduce the risk of bashing your highly explosive payload on the runway.

That's all you really need to know, since everything else is the same as the original A-40B/C.

Have fun obliterating your foes!

Extras:

I wanted to make this plane as insufferable of an opponent as possible, so it retained the drone from the A-40C (original).

This isn't how the Supermarine Attacker villain arc ended, and this is entirely non-canon... but man, Attacker doesn't even realize what's in store XD

No better way to close out than a dive-bombing A-40, huh?