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Wanna know what’s behind the trademark BRTTTTT noise of the A-10 Warthog’s GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling Gun? Then, watch this. Dubbed Warthog, Hog or just Hawg, the A-10 Thunderbolt II is ...
The GAU-8 Avenger is one impressive weapon system and the foundation of the A-10 Warthog, despite its age, won’t go away anytime soon. Used for combat during the time of the Gulf War in 1991 ...
The Warthog A-10 is a badass plane, about that there can be no doubt.And at the heart of that badass plane is the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon, a massive gun the plane itself is essentially ...
The A-10, better known as the Warthog, has a rotary cannon called the GAU-8 Avenger that can sustain 600 revolutions and fire 4,200 rounds per minute. The gun can make short work of armored vehicles.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II was designed around the GAU-8 Avenger 30mm Gatling gun. The aircraft's structure and systems were developed to accommodate this powerful weapon and its ammunition, rather ...
The GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling Gun is the A-10. Remove that gun or modify it in any way, and you end the A-10. That’s why one notion floating around the internet – to make a carrier-based version ...
This is the GAU-8 Avenger Gatling gun, the cannon on the nose of the plane Justice League / Wikimedia It fires 30mm caliber rounds and can fire up to 3,500 rounds per minute ...
The USAF has been trying to kill the A-10 for as long as the Warthog has been in service. Part of this effort saw the A-10's huge GAU-8 Avenger 30mm cannon shrunk down into a pod that could be ...