[17th Miss Regt]

Don't forget this blast from the past, either! During WW II, some German Stuka dive bombers were equipped with a 37mm gun for tank busting. At the battle of Kursk one group of such aircraft destroyed nearly 60 Red Army tanks.

[norton]

"the raw power of the largest, most powerful cannon ever mounted in an aircraft, the 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger Gatling gun..."

All the (accurate) references to 105, 40, 37, (there was even a 3incher tried out in B-25 if I remember correctly), guns as being more powerful skip the changes in technology that make the original quote true.

Count the barrels, note the description of a sound "like a zipper", remember that this is where all that depleated uranium came from (to penetrate tanks); that mother creates an absence of solid things like few others, and none of those mentioned, could pretend to.

[thedilg]

Hans Rudel, the famous Stuka pilkot destroyed 530 Russian tanks with the 37mm.

We patterned much of our A-10 policies after him. Col. Rudel visited our country 5 times and sat in seminar,for a week each time, with a small group of very high ranking defense planners.

Godspeed, The Dilg

[Feckless]

Don't get me wrong.... I have a deep appreciation for all things Air Force and the A10 in particular. From my first day at Al Khafji I noted the relationship between the decreasing number of incoming rounds (Ruskie 122 and SA 105) with the number of outgoing A10's and Jarhead Cobras.