Pretty good video of the A-10 Anti-Tank aircraft in action. And I seriously would not want to be in a tank if one of these was flying around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sCnNl1PuTQ :headbang:
I have a bullet from that cannon sitting around here somewhere. Its huge.
The A10 was designed as part of the Cold War military buildup to kill Soviet tanks. In a certain perverse way, it’s almost too bad we never got see who would actually have won the ground war in Europe that we spent so much $$$ preparing for. Obviously, the world is better off that it never happened. But I still wonder.
Always been my fav. plane they sound bad ass flying.
This lady in my anatomy class lives on an old NIKE base on peppermint road. Its sick lol the missile silo’s are so huge!
I love the A-10 it’s such an enigma of technology in almost every single imaginable way. And man the sound is just amazing.
The A10 is basically a giant gun with wings.
Hell, they designed the gun to fire from the center and put the engine off to the sides because the exhaust gas from that massive gun firing would stall the engine if it was behind the gun.
Not bad. I like this one…
The beginning of this one shows the gun in action without music
Fucking ridiculous…
Quoted:
“Although the A-10 can carry a considerable weight of disposable stores, its primary built-in weapon is the 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun. One of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown, it fires large depleted uranium armor-piercing shells at a rate of about 3,900 rounds per minute (50 rounds per second during the first second, 70 rounds per second thereafter). The massive shells and high muzzle velocity allow the Thunderbolt II to destroy heavily armored main battle tanks with as few as six direct hits. The gun is accurate as well, being capable of placing 80% of its shots within a 20-foot wide circle from a distance of 1 mile while the aircraft is in flight.”
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The A10 is basically a giant gun with wings.
Hell, they designed the gun to fire from the center and put the engine off to the sides because the exhaust gas from that massive gun firing would stall the engine if it was behind the gun.
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and the gun is so big, they literaly built the plane AROUND the gun, instead of building the plane and THEN installing the gun
the warthogs are fucking invincable, one of the warthogs in desert storm had 300 bullet holes and still flew back to base
I was just reading about the recoil effect of the gun on the front.
At 4200 rounds/minute, 70 rounds are fired each second. A 0.425 kg projectile is accelerated to 1067 m/s every one seventieth of a second. This gives a recoil force of approximately 30 kN based on the relation above. On the GAU-8/A product homepage the recoil force is stated as 10,000 pounds-force, or about 45 kN, probably due to additional recoil from exhaust gas from the muzzle. The maximum combined output of the A-10 engines is 80 kN. Hence the recoil force of the gun is slightly more than half of the total thrust of the engines. While this is quite significant, it is not sufficient to stop the aircraft but it can noticeably slow the aircraft. In fact during test firing of the gun in the A-10 in the early 90’s the USAF experimented with putting a muzzle brake on the end of the gun and extending the nose of the plane out around this muzzle brake to vent the gun gases backwards. It was decided during this testing that the effect of the gun was not significant enough to warrant the added expense and complexity of adding this to every plane in the inventory.
The recoil of the gun is also evident in the mounting position of the gun. The gun is mounted off the centerline of the plane as the bullets leave the gun when the barrels reach roughly the 9 O’clock position when looking at the nose of the plane, thus the recoil forces of the gun are directed down the centerline of the plane. This was done because it was discovered during development of the platform that having the gun mounted on the centerline and thus the recoil forces off the centerline was enough to push the plane off target when firing the gun.
I used to spend summers at Eglin AFB in Florida. More than half of the base is a bomb range and target range for the jets. It was always a blast watching the F-15s drop bombs from a distance and listening to the Warthog rip off 800 rounds or so. It sounds like someone ripping a massive fart 
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and the gun is so big, they literaly built the plane AROUND the gun, instead of building the plane and THEN installing the gun
the warthogs are fucking invincable, one of the warthogs in desert storm had 300 bullet holes and still flew back to base
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Thats nothing. Its capable of flying with half the tail gone and 2/3 of one wing missing.