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What gun is in the A10?
The A-10 is perhaps best known for its fearsome GAU-8 Avenger 30mm gatling gun mounted on the nose. The GAU-8 is designed to fire armor-piercing depleted uranium and high explosive incendiary rounds.
How many rounds per minute can an A-10 Warthog fire?
The cannon can fire a range of ammunition, including armour-piercing incendiary rounds (API) weighing up to 0.75kg, or uranium-depleted 0.43kg API rounds. The magazine can hold 1,350 rounds of ammunition. The pilot can select a firing rate of 2,100 or 4,200 rounds a minute.
How big are the A-10 bullets?
General Electric’s 30-millimeter GAU-8 Avenger cannon has been the primary weapon of the U.S. Air Force’s A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack plane for more than 40 years. It also arms the Goalkeeper naval close-in weapon system. It’s a huge and awesome gun.
What is a minigun in Fallout New Vegas?
The CZ57 Avenger or Avenger minigun is a unique weapon in Fallout: New Vegas . This section is transcluded from minigun. To change it, please edit the transcluded page.
What is the difference between a cz57 Avenger and a minigun?
The standard minigun holds twice as much ammunition in a belt than the CZ57 Avenger, giving the CZ57 Avenger only 4 seconds of continuous fire before needing to reload, but this does reduce the overall weight of the weapon from 25 pounds to 18 pounds. The name and model of the Avenger is also printed on the side of the ammunition pack.
What is the difference between Stinger missile and Avenger missile?
The Stinger missile has a 3kg high-explosive fragmentation warhead, with a maximum speed of Mach 2.2. Avenger allows for easy maintainability. The gunners station with a) head-up optical sight, b) hand stations, c) automatic video tracker, d) FLIR monitor and e) control electronics.
Is this the slew-to-cue upgrade kit for Avenger?
An Avenger slew-to-cue upgrade kit has been developed to permit the existing link between the US Army FAAD command and control system to automatically slew the Avenger turret, placing the target in the gunner’s field of view. “Avenger carries eight Raytheon Stinger short range air defence missiles in two launch pods.”