Warthog-the soul of the Thunderbolt attack aircraft, with a dead weight of 1.8 tons and a recoil of 4 tons of the Avenger cannon.The A-10 attack aircraft is essentially around the GAU-8/A Avenger cannon

Warthog - the soul of the Thunderbolt attack aircraft, with a dead weight of 1.8 tons and a recoil of 4 tons of the Avenger cannon.

The A-10 attack aircraft is essentially a flying machine designed around the GAU-8/A Avenger cannon, which itself is a machine that effectively pushes shells.

The Avenger cannon GAU-8/A, 5.06 meters long, 1830Kg full load, and 1350 rounds of ammunition, is actually a kind of Gatling cannon, seven barrels rotated by two hydraulic motors, sequential firing fire. It can fire at an optional rate of fire of 2100 or 4200 rounds per minute (35 to 70 rounds per second) and is available in PGU-14/B armor-piercing incendiary (API), PGU-13/B high-explosive incendiary (HEI) and PGU-15/B training rounds.

The gun flies at Mach 3 after ejection, the delay is completely negligible and does not bend the trajectory, there is no need to calculate the amount of advance and increase of fire. It can be idealized. And the dispersion is ideal, when shooting at a target at a distance of 1.8 km, 80% of the ammunition can be dispersed in a circle with a diameter of about 12 meters around the target. So against ordinary armored targets on the ground, it basically ends in the form of a honeycomb . Able to easily destroy Russian-made T-62 and T-72 tanks in the Gulf War. The subsequent United States also bragged hard for many years .

But this gun has a recoil of up to 4080Kg, which produces vibrations, and in order to ensure as much accuracy as possible, the firing tube position is designed on the axis of the attack aircraft.

Don't look at the essential work of the Warthog-Thunderbolt attack aircraft, which is ground attack, close air support missions. However, in many exercises, air combat defeated a number of first-class fighters, because it has an absolute advantage in air combat within low-speed visual range, and it is very good at biting!

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