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To: Alas Babylon!

A-10s are not massive. Now a C-5 bearing down on you, THAT’S MASSIVE!


9 posted on 10/31/2022 4:25:42 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ducttape45

I got to see one of those when they were pretty new at a huge transportation expo at Dulles c. 1970. Got to walk through the cargo bay. Very impressive to a middle-schooler.


12 posted on 10/31/2022 4:35:33 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ducttape45

The A-10’s gatling gun is MASSIVE.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-a10-warthog-gau8-gatling-gun-really-works-2021-5?op=1

the A-10 Thunderbolt II is, basically, an airplane built around the GAU-8 Avenger 30-mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type cannon.

The Avenger cannon is the Hog primary weapon and is able to fire 3,900 bullets per minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33teK7L4DM4


15 posted on 10/31/2022 4:45:33 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: ducttape45
--"Now a C-5 bearing down on you, THAT’S MASSIVE!"

Close?

American Airlines DC-10 Flight 405 Emergency Landing on Road

https://youtu.be/YUDXKtllRM8

22 posted on 10/31/2022 5:13:55 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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