[sukhoi-30mki]

British WAH-64 Apache

Photo: MOD, Crown Copyright

[Rummyfan]

....M230 30mm chain gun...

30MM chain gun.... mmmmm.

[JudgemAll]

60-inch barrel for increased accuracy

This is probably not for accuracy but range. The M230 is so accurate it violates GEneva Convention as it can sniper hit a single solidier using a high caliber round. As a result it is operated with an electronicaly generated vibration for "fuzzy" area targeting. When that piece of electronic fails, it has to be changed because the machine is too accurate.

Yes, Political COrrectness is what increases war and military budgets.

[meatloaf]

That would be great if it’s linked to a helmet so when the gunner looked at at a target, it was immediately targeted and lit up.

[tophat9000]

I was under the impression the chain in chain gun referred to the link-less system..so mod to linked ammo makes it no longer a chain gun.....or it chain reference to gun gas vs electric drive?

[NY.SS-Bar9]

What???

HELO guns?? as in helicopter?

nevermind

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’d be nice if they would use the gun on the Somali Muzzies who are out on the high seas playing pirate.

[doorgunner69]

but the Navy’s strict safety guidelines make the M230’s electrically-primed firing system unsafe for use aboard surface vessels.

Something fishy here. Unless they use a different ammo variant than the aircraft M-61, the CIWS uses electrically fired ammo. Kind of doubt that, as I recall the percussion primers were too slow for the rate of fire.

[MasterGunner01]

The Navy is already using the Bushmaster II 30mm Chain Gun as the Mk 44. This gun fires the same round as the A-10 Warthog — 30x173mm NATO. The Mk 44 guns are installed in the Mk 46 Mod 1 turrets that are found on LCS-1 and LCS-2, plus the LPD-17 class amphibs.

The M230LF is designed for less recoil than the Mk 44 gun so it could be installed in places where .50 caliber Brownings are used. I don't think this will work and the .50 is the better gun. They'd be better off using the 25mm Mk 38 Mod 2 remote controlled, E/O targeting setup already being procured.