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Awesome picture competition...

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Sometimes you want to say "main gun for an A-10 Thunderbolt aka Warthog". :thumbup :teeth

Although I'd expect most BARFers to know this already. :party

The USAF had the weapon system built first, and then designed the aircraft around it.
 
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I spent about 30min watching bad as Gau-8 youtube vids last night because of that picture ha!
 
Cincinnatus said:
Sometimes you want to say "main gun for an A-10 Thunderbolt aka Warthog". :thumbup :teeth

Although I'd expect most BARFers to know this already. :party

The USAF had the weapon system built first, and then designed the aircraft around it.
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The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it’s mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 “Warthog”) whose two engines produce only four tons of thrust each. If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.

To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.
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https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/
 
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JackTheTripper said:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/
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I wouldn't call it "Better"....

As good as this gun would be as a rocket pack engine, the Russians built one that would work even better. The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 weighs half as much as the GAU-8 and has an even higher fire rate.
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The gun was noted for its high (often uncomfortable) vibration and extreme noise. The airframe vibration led to fatigue cracks in fuel tanks, numerous radio and avionics failures, the necessity of using runways with floodlights for night flights (as the landing lights would often be destroyed), tearing or jamming of the forward landing gear doors (leading to at least three crash landings), cracking of the reflector gunsight, an accidental jettisoning of the cockpit canopy and at least one case of the instrument panel falling off in flight. The weapons also dealt extensive collateral damage, as the sheer numbers of fragments from detonating shells was sufficient to damage aircraft flying within a 200 meter radius from the impact center, including the aircraft firing.
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To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.

If you did that, you'd tear your car apart in less than two seconds... :rofl
 
Yes! A gun so awesome that they built the plane around it and not just add it on later.
 
Rephrased as: A gun so awesome, the only way to improve it was to make it fly. :thumbup
 
i am happy to see them fly a lot over las vegas, In a typical week I see A-10s about twice a week fly directly over my house. They are sooo silent compared to the over jets tht fly over. I will miss them as they are phased out....
 
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