Avenger Strike Fighter
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A Forge World product, released to coincide with Imperial Armour Aeronautica (the book containing the rules for it and other flyers, what with Warhammer 40,000 6th edition having flyer rules).
The Avenger is a close-range ground-attack aircraft meant for destroying armor and other heavy targets. It does this with the Avenger Bolt Cannon, the Strength 6 AP 3 Heavy 7 gun around which the flyer was built (also called the "Fuck Marines gun" because it ignores their power armor save and wounds them on a 2+). Since it was supposedly used a lot by Sebastian Thor's forces during the Age of Apostasy, the Sisters of Battle see it as an instrument of divine vengeance (through superior firepower), so they use it a lot.
Forge World was very obviously inspired by the real-world A-10 Thunderbolt II (or "Warthog"), a ground-attack aircraft built around the tremendously powerful GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling cannon. It shoots bullets so fast that it doesn't go Dakka," it goes BRRRRRRT.