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GAU-8/A Avenger


Size Comparison to a Volkswagon Beetle

The AN/GAU-8 30mm Avenger seven-barrel gatling gun, mounted only on the A-10 attack jet, is a 30mm, 7 barrel gatling gun used primarily in the air to ground role as a soft target killer and tank buster.

According to some sources, the GAU-8 fires 1,800 rounds per minute, with the higher 4200 rd/min rate having been deleted in the 1980s. However, the A-10 can only fire in high rate, which is 3900 rounds per minute. Low rate went out with the use of the battelle gas diverting device, and although the A-10 no longer uses the battelle device, the limit on high rate only has remained, since it made no tactical sense to fire in low rate and have to spend that much more time on final to get the same number of rounds on target. The gun fires a mix of both high explosive incendiary (HEI) and armored piercing incendiary (API) ammunition.

A typical combat load for the GAU-8 would include 1,100 rounds of 30mm high explosive or armor piercing ammunition. The 30mm API is mixed with 30mm High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) at the factory and is called Combat Mix Ammunition. The ratio of API to HEI rounds in the Combat Mix is 4:1. Combat mix is a sequential mixture of DU and HEI rounds in which 1 HEI round followed by 4 DU rounds are fired by the AN/GAU-8 gatling gun. DU is the primary munition for the A/OA-10 in a combat environment.

Compatible Aircraft:
A-10A Thunderbolt II
YA-10B

Source: Global Security

*Original Article by "Millie"*

[Demon Lord Razgriz]

Here's a link to a vid of a GAU-8/A test firing.

GAU-8/A Test Firing

[Skylman2014]

List of compatible aircraft added.

[Shirai_Kuroko]

Wait... Is it me, or that A-10's cannon damage was much higher than other jets' GUN in ACZ?

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

It is more powerful gun than the others. It's just like the Fenrir's autocannon.