> You sure that it's a 30mm chain gun? That's the same gun caliber of the A-10
> Thunderbolt II.
The A-10 uses the 30mm Avenger Cannon. The Avenger Cannon is a gatling type
weapon that produces more rearward thrust than the A-10's engines provide. The
plane actually slows as the gun fires. The Avenger cannon is a considerable
larger design
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/gau-8.htm
http://members.aol.com/StretchEn4/private/gau-8a2.jpg
than the 30 mm chain type gun.
http://www.engineering.tem.nhl.nl/~wiers506/hughes.htm
http://www-acala1.ria.army.mil/acala/sma/asa/apm230.htm
Newt
1970 M35A2
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