A pig flies, Warthog.
Islamo-headchopper runs.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!
The machine shop that I worked in the late 70’s and early 80’s made components for the GAU-8. Glad to see they are still doing the job.
One, the A-10 was able to target and hit the vehicle while it was moving at a pretty good clip. It got 4 rounds in it, and it is somewhat smaller than a tank.
Two, even though the rounds are only 30mm it tore gaping, volley ball or basket ball sized holes in the vehicle. As near as we could determine last time we saw this - the extreme damage to the sheet metal was from the shockwave of the rounds. Fun stuff - as long as you're not on the receiving end...
that is definitely the van full of Libyans from back to the future...
More good English from the American Shooting Journal.
..bye bye..
wow... the guy sitting there thanking allah that he servived the first hit was rudely interrupted by the sloppy second rifling.
That ended well, I must say!
That was purdy.
Send the A-10 to the southern border. Several strafing runs should slow down the invasion.
That vehicle was booking...and with that hole in the roof, I assume some insurgents were cooking.
I appreciated the explosion to finish it off.
Good things come to those that wait.
The shows they put on were more impressive than any fast fly-bys or formation shows I had ever seen - and have ever seen since...friends who were in Desert Storm had tales to tell about their effectiveness too....tanks filled with pureed remains leaking out of clothing.....
The guy in the second video says its a 7 barrel weapon. It is not, it has 6 barrels just like the smaller Army version called Vulcan, now out of service. I had a platoon of 4 Vulcans, we could raise a dust storm down range with the number of bullet we could fire at one time.
At some point, the Demonrats WILL want this used domestically, against their political enemies. When they do, it’s up to the Air Force to refuse.
Depleted uranium doesn’t explode but it does tend to set the atmosphere inside the target vehicle on fire (to explosive effect) because of a property called pyrophoria. On high speed impact the DU penetrator turns into white-hot plasma gas, which limits the blunting of the penetrator (keeps it sharper), drives a blowtorch of hot gas in front of it (like a magnesium burning bar), and when it penetrates to the interior, it drive a cloud of DU dust particles before it, which it then sets alight. So there will tend to be (secondary) explosions, but the DU itself is not explosive.
The Warthog is a remarkable a/c in its own right, capable of continuing to fly with unbelievable levels of damage.
https://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Stories1/001-100/0016_A-10-battle-damage/story0016.htm
There was another (peacetime, IIRC) incident when a Warthog flew into the guy wire of a radio or TV tower and lost part of a wing, one engine and most of the tailplane on that side but flew home safely.
And the Army’s Vulcan AA Gatling gun is 20mm, not 30mm. AFAIK the only weapon system in the army that fires a 30mm is the chin cannon on the AH-64 Apache.
The A-10’s gun is the 30mm GAU-8, most definitely 7-barreled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger
MADE ME LAFF. I hate the bstrds.
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PING and enjoy.