" up to 16,000 pounds of mixed ordnance"...snip..."GAU-8/A Avenger 30 mm seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon, which is mounted on the nose of the aircraft. This cannon is designed to fire armor-piercing depleted uranium and high explosive incendiary rounds. The A-10 can also carry a variety of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including Mk-82 and Mk-84 series low/high drag bombs, incendiary cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, mine dispensing munitions, AGM-65 Mavericks, and AIM-9 Sidewinders."