Posted on 02/15/2018 5:29:02 AM PST by w1n1
You can run, but you can’t hide from an A-10 Thunderbolt II and its technological advanced GAU-8 30mm weapon system.
U.S. Air Forces Central Command released a un-classified footage of an engagement between an A-10 and what looks to be "a Taliban vehicle fleeing the scene of an attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan."
The short video display a light-colored car speeding down a dusty desert road only to be stopped by a hail storm of 30mm rounds from the A-10. Zooming in on the stopped vehicle you can see four basketball-sized holes punched in the top of the vehicle before another wave of shells is applied for good measure. Unfortunately, the video has no sound, but you can imagine the many “brrrt” pounding the vehicle.
According to Centcom, the Taliban-mobile was armed with a DShK heavy machine gun, which they had been using to attack the Afghan people,” said the Air Force.
The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type auto cannon.
It is 19-foot long 7-barreled rotary cannon that fires huge 30x173mm shells— each about the size of a ketchup bottle at 3,900 rounds per minute. Unloaded, the gun weighs more than 600-pounds.
For most grunts on the ground its a blessing to see the A-10's come in for air support or in this case direct action monitored by drones. See the full A-10 Taliban footage here.
Every day is Friday when I see this stuff.
All my cares just drift away.
BRRRRT is the sound of freedom!
After Cleanup Aisle 17:
Hmmm. That's a pretty small ketchup bottle.
U.S. A-10 strafing a Taliban vehicle fleeing the scene of an attack in Kandahar province
Was anyone injured?
As long as it's applied to those who want to do us harm it is, but I wonder how long it would be before the same technology would be applied to "evil gun owners" if the Democrats get back in charge. Just listening to the tyrant wannabes going on about gun control this morning makes me want to puke
Only the mom.
She was on her way home from dropping the kids off at soccer practice.
That ain’t gonna buff out. And you’ll never get the upholstery clean.
Yeah, I like ketchup, I buy it in much larger bottles. ;-)
Still... I wouldn't want to be hit by these "smaller" bottles!
I wonder why the large holes torn in the sheet metal? I would’ve expected about a 30mm hole punched neatly straight through the vehicle. Even “splash” from something internal absorbing impact energy and shockwaves spreading out should push the sheet metal out. You see that on the rear roof - it appears to be bowed upward.
Don’t you just love a story w/a happy ending?
The slugs are depleted uranium. They explode from the kinetic energy when they penetrate. Same as tank rounds.
I was hearing some A-10 practice last night. The army base is about 10 miles from my house.
“Was anyone injured?”
Didn’t see anybody exiting the vehicle so I guess that the answer is yep.
perhaps different brissance going in vs. out.
The weapon the Air Force wants to retire.
Yer days are over mister!
Not really! A little smaller than Heinz restaurant size!
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