Somehow I don't think this would go over so well in NYS.
Bullet propelled kayak.
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Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
You'd need a lot of ammo. Cool as hell though.
Deplorable Me
.700 Nitro Express
Wonder what the side movement on the Iowa is?
Robin
.577 Tyrannosaur.
I had heard that also. I guess 46,000 tons of displaced water offers a hell of a lot of resistance.
Really? Not even one inch? you sure?
Big nose cannons on the B25 in WWII would slow the aircraft down some. All the modern guns on aircraft are recoilless as far as I know, although I have heard that the 30mm on the A10 has an effect. But I don't know that is true. I have seen the hole through a bulldozer blade made by one 30mm round. Impressive.
A10 pilots have to go full throttle when firing the gun or the recoil can actually cause it to stall!
Hard time believing that. If they're full speed, I doubt they'd stall out.
No they won't, not when flying at what passes for high speed in an A10. But when they are coming in on a strafing run they are low and slow and the considerable recoil of the cannon can indeed put the plane into a stall if the pilot doesn't throttle up first.
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A-10s aren't that fast.
Bozo
.45 acp
If the A-10 could carry enough rounds (it can't) and fire the cannon long enough (it can't) it is theoretically possible to induce a stall. In theory, you could do similarly by going into a steep climb at full power, and firing a burst just before the aircraft stalled on its own. In practice though, you'd need computers in control in order to be able to reliably get the conditions right.
Full-throttle during firing has more to do with classic dive attacks. Get in fast, out fast and minimize the chance the enemy will be able to respond.
Full-throttle during firing has more to do with classic dive attacks. Get in fast, out fast and minimize the chance the enemy will be able to respond.
General characteristics
Type Aircraft seven barrel cannon(air-to-surface)
Caliber 30mm
Feed Left-hand linkless
Barrel length 90.5 in 2,299 mm
Length 19 ft 10.5 in 5.06 m
Weight 620 lb 281.2 kg
Weight complete weapon 4,0291b 1,830kg
Recoil force 9,000 lb 40 kN
Muzzle velocity API 3,240 ft/s 988 m/s
HEI 3,400-3,450 ft/s 1,036-1,052 m/s
Rate of fire one engine 2,100/min
two engines 4,200/min
Range 0.76–1 mile 1,235-1,609 m
Aircraft A-10 Thunderbolt II
Magazine capacity 1,174
General characteristics
Primary function A-10 : close air support, OA-10 : airborne forward air control
Contractor Fairchild Republic Co.
Power plant Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans
Thrust 2x 9,060 lb 2x 40.3 kN
Length 53.3 ft 16.25 m
Height 14.6 ft 4.47 m
Wingspan 57.5 ft 17.53 m
Wingarea 506 sq ft 47.01 sq m
Speed max. 447 mph 720 km/h
cruising 387 mph 623 km/h
Ceiling 45,000 ft 13,636 m
Weight empty 21,032 lb 9,540 kg
max. takeoff 50,000 lb 22,680 kg
Range 800 miles 1,287 km
Armament One 30 mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of retarded bombs, 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) of general-purpose bombs, incendiary and Rockeye II cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, Maverick missiles and laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs; infrared countermeasure flares; electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; 2.75-inch (6.99 centimeters) rockets; illumination flares and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
Crew One
Date deployed March 1976
Unit cost $12.1 million
Number built 713
Inventory Active force: A-10, 72 and OA-10, 72; Reserve: A-10, 24 and OA-10, 12; ANG: A-10, 64 and OA-10, 30
So you can see that the recoil force of the GAU-8 Avenger cannon is about 50% of the total available thrust the engines of the A-10 provide. This is enough to decelerate the aircraft in flight some. Strafing runs are conducted at low speeds and obviously at low altitude, if the plane is near stall speed a burst from the GAU-8 absolutely can decelerate the plane into a stall. This is why A-10 pilots feed in more throttle when they fire the gun on a strafing pass.
Type Aircraft seven barrel cannon(air-to-surface)
Caliber 30mm
Feed Left-hand linkless
Barrel length 90.5 in 2,299 mm
Length 19 ft 10.5 in 5.06 m
Weight 620 lb 281.2 kg
Weight complete weapon 4,0291b 1,830kg
Recoil force 9,000 lb 40 kN
Muzzle velocity API 3,240 ft/s 988 m/s
HEI 3,400-3,450 ft/s 1,036-1,052 m/s
Rate of fire one engine 2,100/min
two engines 4,200/min
Range 0.76–1 mile 1,235-1,609 m
Aircraft A-10 Thunderbolt II
Magazine capacity 1,174
General characteristics
Primary function A-10 : close air support, OA-10 : airborne forward air control
Contractor Fairchild Republic Co.
Power plant Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans
Thrust 2x 9,060 lb 2x 40.3 kN
Length 53.3 ft 16.25 m
Height 14.6 ft 4.47 m
Wingspan 57.5 ft 17.53 m
Wingarea 506 sq ft 47.01 sq m
Speed max. 447 mph 720 km/h
cruising 387 mph 623 km/h
Ceiling 45,000 ft 13,636 m
Weight empty 21,032 lb 9,540 kg
max. takeoff 50,000 lb 22,680 kg
Range 800 miles 1,287 km
Armament One 30 mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 pounds (225 kilograms) of retarded bombs, 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) of general-purpose bombs, incendiary and Rockeye II cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, Maverick missiles and laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs; infrared countermeasure flares; electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; 2.75-inch (6.99 centimeters) rockets; illumination flares and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
Crew One
Date deployed March 1976
Unit cost $12.1 million
Number built 713
Inventory Active force: A-10, 72 and OA-10, 72; Reserve: A-10, 24 and OA-10, 12; ANG: A-10, 64 and OA-10, 30
So you can see that the recoil force of the GAU-8 Avenger cannon is about 50% of the total available thrust the engines of the A-10 provide. This is enough to decelerate the aircraft in flight some. Strafing runs are conducted at low speeds and obviously at low altitude, if the plane is near stall speed a burst from the GAU-8 absolutely can decelerate the plane into a stall. This is why A-10 pilots feed in more throttle when they fire the gun on a strafing pass.