Let's hear it for big guns!

[rtryb2200]

(12-10-2009 02:38 PM)dg123 Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.Should go through a lightly armored tank like butter. Although I don't see tanks driving down the US' streets, so I wonder why the FBI has an interest in such a round.

To waste tax payer money....what else ?

[dg123]

I'm usually not one to cry fowl over wasting tax payer's money, but I think this might be one of few instances where I'll agree.

[Steel]

That 30mm cannon on the A10 is a beast. I grew up by two A10 bases, and did CAP at one. Anyhow they fire either incindiary (blow-up) rounds for 'soft' targets such as trucks and shit like that, or Depleted Uranium (Really fucking heavy) rounds for tanks. They'll hill any tank cause they shoot the top of it. 2100 or 4200 RPM.

[dg123]

I heard a rumor that the 30mm gun in the A10, if it could be allowed to sustain fire for long enough, has enough recoil force to slow an A10 enough to stall from it's cruising speed. Have you heard something like that Steel?

[Steel]

Well, yes and no. It does create 22 tons of recoil force, but the way the pilots are trained to fire it (10 degrees from vertical) gravity takes precedence, also theres not actually enough rounds in the plane to stall it. They fire at 2100/4200 RPM, but only keep a couple thousand rounds on them at once, i.e. less than 30 seconds of sustained firing. They fire in very short bursts, 1, maybe 2 seconds at the most, cause that's all that's needed to pop a tank. And don't forget, those bishes also cary 16 maverick missiles and all sorts of other missiles to pop tanks as well. The cannon is more fore CAS than anyting.

Now the A10 is a badass motherfucker, But i present to you all the ultimate in badass motherfuckery, the AC-130 Spectre gunship













Loaded with a 105mm cannon, a 40mm cannon, and dual 25mm gatling gun cannons, if you need to rain stupid amounts of death, destruction and sorrow upon your enemies, this is the airplane you use.

[dg123]

(12-13-2009 05:34 AM)Steel Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.Well, yes and no. It does create 22 tons of recoil force, but the way the pilots are trained to fire it (10 degrees from vertical) gravity takes precedence, also theres not actually enough rounds in the plane to stall it. They fire at 2100/4200 RPM, but only keep a couple thousand rounds on them at once, i.e. less than 30 seconds of sustained firing. They fire in very short bursts, 1, maybe 2 seconds at the most, cause that's all that's needed to pop a tank. And don't forget, those bishes also cary 16 maverick missiles and all sorts of other missiles to pop tanks as well. The cannon is more fore CAS than anyting.

I figured that would be the case since they can burn through their magazine in a very short time. And that gunship is just awesome!

[Steel]

Yea in one of the single player missions in Modern Warfare, And in the split screen missions and multiplayer in MW2, you can be the gunner on an AC-130. The unfairness of it's BAMF'ery is so high that it wraps around the dimension of the universe back on itself and makes it fair. You should go on youtube and check out some footage of those gunships (and A10's) laying down justice upon our enemies. Fuck, ill do it for you right now.

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