And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Anti-tank round, and shockwave, fired by an A-10 warthog's GAU-8 gatling gun
I want a 22lr and projectile launcher like that. Probably have to sell my house and land to use it once, if you gave me the launcher assembly. I didn't sleep at a Motel 6 last night, but I have fired a Ma deuce and an mg 42.
Thinking that’s photoshopped. 4200 rounds a minute rate of fire; 70 per second. Where are the ones ahead and behind the projectile in the picture? The shock wave off the nose of the round isn’t symmetrical and the gun gas isn’t trailing along the fuselage. Cool concept tho.
the Gatling gun fires if you rotate the barrel. If they take an A10 to a civilian airport they post an airman at the Gatling gun to keep people from touching the barrel. the airman told me that every man tries to rotate the barrel
the gun is built into the airframe. if receiver wears out you scrap the airframe.
The A-10 isn't 'sexy' enough for the brass over at The Pentagon, they keep saying the fighter du jour can pick up close air support and retire the Warthog. And they're still wrong.
Col.John Boyd was the brains behind the A10 & the F16. And a ton of other stuff. For a very good read 'Col. John Boyd: The fighter Pilot that Changed The Art of War'. There's so much to say about the guy that I can't pick anything in particular to highlight. Oh wait...his records stated he had an IQ of...97. His Em theory (energy/manueverabily) is equally as elegant as Einstien's E=mc^2.
BRRRRRT
ReplyDeleteAs Hallmark says: When you care enough to send the very best.
ReplyDeleteIdentifies as a .22LR, so is now legal in Blue states.
ReplyDeleteI want a 22lr and projectile launcher like that. Probably have to sell my house and land to use it once, if you gave me the launcher assembly. I didn't sleep at a Motel 6 last night, but I have fired a Ma deuce and an mg 42.
Deletea real crowd pleaser.
ReplyDeleteI'm fascinated by the mechanics of using a camera capable of thousands of frames per second to capture a bullet fired by a moving plane.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah. Add in that it's a hypersonic bullet and how sharp the picture is at the expanding shockwave.
DeleteThe beginning of a long friendship. The pilot's name was Ernie.
ReplyDeleteThinking that’s photoshopped. 4200 rounds a minute rate of fire; 70 per second. Where are the ones ahead and behind the projectile in the picture? The shock wave off the nose of the round isn’t symmetrical and the gun gas isn’t trailing along the fuselage. Cool concept tho.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.... too many things wrong with this image.
Deletethe Gatling gun fires if you rotate the barrel. If they take an A10 to a civilian airport they post an airman at the Gatling gun to keep people from touching the barrel. the airman told me that every man tries to rotate the barrel
ReplyDeletethe gun is built into the airframe. if receiver wears out you scrap the airframe.
The A-10 isn't 'sexy' enough for the brass over at The Pentagon, they keep saying the fighter du jour can pick up close air support and retire the Warthog. And they're still wrong.
ReplyDeleteI have heard it described as slow, low and deadly. cannon with wings
ReplyDeleteOne milk bottle, inbound.
ReplyDeleteCol.John Boyd was the brains behind the A10 & the F16. And a ton of other stuff.
ReplyDeleteFor a very good read 'Col. John Boyd: The fighter Pilot that Changed The Art of War'. There's so much to say about the guy that I can't pick anything in particular to highlight. Oh wait...his records stated he had an IQ of...97. His Em theory (energy/manueverabily) is equally as elegant as Einstien's E=mc^2.
Unfortunately the Chinese CCP are ass raping us with Boyd's 'Patterns of Conflict'. Proven materials and theories.
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