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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
John Galban wrote: 1,000 rounds/min is only 25 lb. of recoil. The whole package, including ammo, weighs about 90 lbs. Only 90 pounds? I WANT ONE!!!!! Pull the rear doors off, mount it sideways in the back, and call me Spooky! Think that's cool? Check this out : http://www.saracen.org/ They build these locally. It's pretty amazing to see in action. The minigun is stowed in the back. When trouble strikes, the sunroof opens and the minigun is deployed via a scissor-type mount. Just the thing to get you through that morning rush hour traffic. The last test I saw, that minigun destroyed 3 cars in about 10 seconds John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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In article , Peter Duniho
writes Well, regardless of the conversion, a 850 pound recoil thrust would certainly hurt your airspeed. Hard to say exactly how much, since it would depend on how long that 850 pounds of thrust was acting on the airframe. Seems to me that there's a pretty good chance the force would just tear the gun from the airframe, or break the airframe. Assuming a structure strong enough to withstand it, you might find you can't take off with your 160hp engine. What is needed to assess that effect better is 1. The mass of each shell 2. The muzzle velocity 3. Rate of fire 4. Time for shell to accelerate down the barrel and/or effective muzzle length. Rapid but short applications of force might shake the airframe violently rather than stop it in mid air. 3000 ft/sec in 5 ft might only take less than .007 secs. As long as the weapon is rigidly fixed to the airframe it is the momentum change that the airframe feels in terms of velocity. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- David Francis E-Mail reply to ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/arm/arm8.htm
You are correct, the GAU-8 is the weapon on the A-10. However, the Vulcan IS a gattling gun originally used on F-15, F-16, B-52, ect Thomas J. Paladino Jr. wrote: The Vulcan cannon is actually the single-barrel cannon on most fighter planes in the US asenal. The A-10 uses the GAU-8 Avenger 30mm gatling cannon. |
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pac plyer
Nope. Was FAC (Air Commander) that day marking targets for the fast movers. I was low and slow (peddling as fast as I could G), they were both high and low but fast. My primary job was Director of II DASC at Pleiku but was able to sneak away and get lots of missions during the year. When paper work was done I could fly (over 300 hours with over 200 missions). Night TET started (1968) I was able to get airborne and provided control for strike A/C the rest of the night. Left aircraft lights off on take-off due to firing around the airport and across the runway. They turned R/W lights on at my call and off as soon as I reported airborne (lots of tracers but nothing close as they couldn't see me, just hear engines). Morning fog moved in and had used all of my gas. Finally found a 'sucker hole' and dropped through and landed with dry tanks. All in a days work. The little choppers were like water bugs, flitting all over the place and right down on the tree tops. Lost a lot way they were operated (probably hit with rocks or bow and arrow). They operated in pairs a lot. One would fly low and troll for enemy fire and the other would stay high in case #1 got shot down. Pretty high risk missions but not as bad as Air Force and Navy up north. .. Big John Point of the sword On 12 Jul 2003 00:17:08 -0700, (pac plyer) wrote: ----clip---- Glad you made it back in one peice. My neighbor lost a number of pals in his unit that flew Hughes 500's for spotting. There's a sight on the net he showed me comemorating the missions. You must of been flying something really hot like huns or thuds huh? ----clip |
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Big John,
Did you ever sit on your helment or a frying pan or anything... seems like to me (having only experienced it on the silver screen) that controlling could've been one of the most hazardous missions cuz you're just milling around in orbits waiting for Charlie to pump something your way. Enjoy reading your stuff. Keep those hairy tales comming. pacplyer baa baa, err, I mean "wolf wolf" cargo dog |
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Big John wrote
Some of the war stories get a way off thread. Probably should find a place where they are told as lots here probably don't like??? Pac sez, Naw... don't worry about that. The subject was Shots fired at airplanes..so you're spot on. besides... I suspect if it's that annoying somebody will say something... Even my Usenet nemesis get quiet when I tell a tale or two. I interpret that silence as nothing but acceptance and admiration: LOL! ;-) The other sight on google: aviation.stories is moderated by a moron. He only posts a few stories a year and allows left wing political tripe and dead links to sit displayed forever.... so I say: it's better in the unmoderated real world. Since you're a nice guy John, and have considered this for others, I could recommend a suggestion: the convention was used over at RAH that when someone goes a little off-topic they post a new thread and in the title somewhere put "zzzzzzzZZZ" to denote this is about the infamous Captain Zoom, which most readers are unfamiliar with, and may not want to read. So maybe we could put in there some where "War Story" or "warS" or something? What say you all? pacplyer champion of off-topic war stories |
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