GAU-8

"Victorious Secret" (victorioussecret)
12/19/2013 at 16:46 • Filed to: None

DISCUSSION (12)

Timmy - MINI With a Big Blower > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 16:49

I could put one of these to good use during my commute to and from work.

EL_ULY > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 16:50

Instant human liquefier? I'll take 2 :]

oldirtybootz > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 16:50

I have a Warthog toy that served countless sorties. I'll always have a special place in my heart for this plane.

ttyymmnn > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 17:05

Paging Dukie.....

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 17:11

IIRC a few helicopters during Desert storm were splashed by A10s, a number of which were *not* splashed by Sidewinder.

There needs to be a new word for being so direly rofflefucked you're in a helicopter in the gunsights of THIS.

Victorious Secret > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/19/2013 at 17:14

How bored does the A10 pilot need to be to say "No tanks? Thats a shame. Looks like that chopper can enjoy my depleted uranium"

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 17:17

I expect from a purely practical standpoint, it's better to take down a chopper than a tank versus the forces you're flying CAP for. Even so, I'm pretty sure it was partly for the lulz.

Victorious Secret > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/19/2013 at 17:25

The best kind of lulz come from doing things for the lulz.

POD > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 17:27

The internet does not have enough collective "likes" to allow me to express how awesome this is.

leicester > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 17:40

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPP!!!!

Dusty Ventures > Victorious Secret
12/19/2013 at 20:41

From XKCD's "What if" section:

The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it’s mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 “Warthog” ) whose two engines produce only four tons of thrust each. If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.

To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds .

SteyrTMP > Victorious Secret
12/20/2013 at 02:22

When I was a kid, this was the plane I always was doodling in school. I've always been an A-10 fan. That, the Nam-era Cobra, and the F16.