A. Friend brought me a gift.
Seeing how I love the A-10 Warthog, he brought me a spent 30mm shell from the GAU-8 cannon they utilize to take out tanks. It fires 65 of these big bastards PER SECOND!
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21 comments:
Glad you showed this to me in person, unbelieveable the size.
You do realize how HARD you just set yourself up, right?
what worries me is that you just happened to have a shotgun shell in your car.
(gratuitous continuation)
Why yes, you can pull up at any given moment and find Darryl waxing his barrel.
(I threw the rhyme in for free)
so how hard do you have to drop it for it to explode?
The recoil actually slows the plane down.
anymore than 8 seconds and the plane will stall
That little plane can carry just about everything in the USAF arsenal......like Killboy, the A10 Thunderbolt II (affectionately nicknamed Warthog)....rocks. They were at my last base back in the 80s.
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I'm glad you,liked the gift.
I worked on the A-10 for 16 years in the AF Reserves at Grissom AFB.
The Warthog can fire these 30mm rounds at 4200 rounds a minute. That's 70 rounds a second. They can carry only 1300 rounds in the magazine. They leave the barrel at 3800 feet per second.
The Fort Wayne, IN air guard are getting the A-10 soon. That's only 10 miles from my house. Yea!
Here's a joke.
An F-16 pilot and a A-10 pilot were bragging about there planes. The F-16 pilot said he could hang 16,000 pounds of ordinace under his wing. The A-10 pilot said "That's nothing, I can hang an F-16 under my wing.
And to think you were worry about that little ol' pistol on the guys hip a few months ago!
RCwarthog, I grew up(and still live) just north of Muncie. I remember watching the A-10's fly over low-level practice bombing about everything. Good stuff. I currently fly for a living and look forward to seeing the A-10's in the area!(I also have one of those shell's also, very neat!)
I actually have three shells. One was given to me by the guy who helped develope the GAU-8 Gatling Gun. Another was a dummy round that I had polished. It looks like chrome.
During competition the F-16's and F-15's are required to stop firing at the targets at 1000'. The A-10's are required to stop at 2000' to give the fighters a fighting chance. The accuracy of the gatling gun, at 1000', is so close to 100% it's classified.
The A-10's are required to fly below 200' during training.
I've seen the A-10 at a firing range three times. The best range is in Grayling Michigan. It feels like the planes are coming right at you.
During Desert Storm the A-10's were responsible for over 50% of the tank kills.
I actually have a R/C A-10. It has an 8' wingspan and is 6' long.
The mighty Warthog - what an awesome aircraft. It's so ugly that it's menacing, intimidating, and flat-out cool looking.
One of the few aircraft that can still remain airborne after sustaining massive amounts of damage.
The longer the barrel the more accuracy when it spits.
According to Fairchild Republic (maker of the A-10) the A-10 can lose 2/3 of a wing, a rudder and an engine and still fly. There are stories that flak has gone through the engines and not stopped them.
The A-10 has hydraulic controls with a cable back-up.
We call them double-ugly because they have two of everything. Two wings, two rudders two engines.
The plane is actually built around the darn gun. I was hiking up the White Mtns of NH and got buzzed by a pair of A10s. It seemed like I could reach out and touch them. I didn't know whether to high-five the pilots or crap my pants. Always impressive.
Rumor has it that Barrett is chambering one of their semi autos in this caliber for sale in states where the .50 BMG round is outlawed ;)
For Trip's sake, I'm glad the conversation switched to planes and ammo. Nice one KB.
That is the coolest miniature shot gun shell I've seen
From a former Hawg Driver- Mostly correct info- the plane does not slow down or stall if you hang on the trigger. However, beyond about a 1 sec burst accuracy is seriously degraded due to the rotational (gatling) effect.
A good tactical burst is about 1 sec so figure on ten kills with the gun, max, per sortie. When you "sport shoot" at the range you only have 100 rounds for three passes so each burst is well under 1 sec.
While the jet does not actually slow, the vibration is eye watering the first few times. HUD film is blurred, spent gun gasses washing over the windscreen, and the G meter pegged in both directions!
The spent brass is actually kept in the belt- not ejected overboard. The shells weigh so much- a little over a pound each- it's needed to keep the aircraft in CG.
Great jet, great fun. KB, keep up the good work!
Mike
When the A-10 flies, without ammo, the maintainance people have to bolt steel plates inside the nose wheel area to keep the CG balanced.
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