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To: You Dirty Rats
"I saw one of the plants that produced the shells for the 30mm gatling gun. When the gun fires, the plane loses 100MPH of velocity!"

In other words, a Killer Thrust Reverse system. I somehow doubt the 100-knot figger, but I'm sure the effect IS substantial. When the gun is firing, you have a rapid series of force vectors directly to the rear of the flight path, so it sure would slow the a/c down.

Michael

9 posted on 04/09/2003 8:58:15 AM PDT by Wright is right! (Have a profitable day!)
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To: Wright is right!
When the gun fires, the plane loses 100MPH of velocity!"

In other words, a Killer Thrust Reverse system. I somehow doubt the 100-knot figger, but I'm sure the effect IS substantial.

Actually, the recoil is greater than that. An A-10 flying level at maximum speed and with 100% thrust will stall from the recoil of a 5 second burst (250 rnd).

This "machinegun" is the size of a minivan.

So9

25 posted on 04/11/2003 5:29:20 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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