To: MtnClimber
Wouldn’t a pair of rotary .50 Cal putting out a dispersed cloud over a large area be better and more cost effective than 30mm?
5 posted on
05/10/2018 7:15:52 AM PDT by
lurk
To: lurk
7 posted on
05/10/2018 7:20:19 AM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
To: lurk
8 posted on
05/10/2018 7:20:19 AM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
To: lurk
The .50 cal is a machine gun. The 30mm is a cannon. 30mm HEDP rounds are much more effective.
13 posted on
05/10/2018 7:24:36 AM PDT by
SJSAMPLE
To: lurk
14 posted on
05/10/2018 7:29:57 AM PDT by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: lurk
23 posted on
05/10/2018 7:37:45 AM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
To: lurk
30mm’s are high explosive. .50 Cal are not with one exception.
29 posted on
05/10/2018 7:57:16 AM PDT by
Wu
(Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
To: lurk
Wouldn’t a pair of rotary .50 Cal putting out a dispersed cloud over a large area be better and more cost effective than 30mm? The older gunships have 20mm vulcan canons which are more effective than .50 BMG at the ranges being used by gunships. The older gunships also have a 40mm Bofors canon. The .30mm canon is supposed to fill the gap between the two and do double duty.
However, the Bushmaster .30mm chain gun as deployed on the C-130J has very serious accuracy and reliability issues that have yet to be sorted out, so the gun is pretty much worthless in combat at this time.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17955/the-usaf-still-cant-get-the-new-ac-130j-ghostriders-30mm-cannon-to-work-reliably
35 posted on
05/10/2018 9:34:16 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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