For those of you who didn’t choose the BRRRTTTT life, the BRRRTTTT life chose you, let’s look at the GAU-8:
| number of barrels | 7 |
| Feed: | Linkless feed system |
| calibre | 30 mm |
| Ammo types | PGU-14/B API Armor Piercing Incendiary [DU] PGU-13/B HEI High Explosive Incendiary PGU-15/B TP Target Practice |
| muzzle velocity | 1067 meters/second |
| Armor penetration | 69mm at 500 meters 38mm at 1000 meters |
| Maximum Range | over 1,250 meters |
| Accuracy | 5mil, 80 percent 80% of rounds fired at 4,000ft hit within a 20ft radius |
| cannon weight | 281 kilograms |
| cannon length | 6.40 meters |
DaddyBear’s Den 
John in Philly
/ June 9, 2015Because I chose rotary barrel weapons as my instructor training lecture during my first firearms instructor course for uncle, I can add that one second of trigger squeeze can put sixty five pounds of depleted uranium on target, and that it takes twenty six horsepower to spin the gun.
Shooting the E-Postal match with the GAU-8 would be a huge bunch of fun as long as someone else was paying for the gun and ammo.
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daddybear71
/ June 9, 2015Thanks, sweet. Everyone’s free to add their knowledge to these posts.
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wyowanderer
/ June 9, 2015Getting your gun data out ahead of Bammy’s new regulations, I see.
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daddybear71
/ June 9, 2015I’m pretty sure that if it goes through, there’ll be some ex post facto shenanigans, like what the ATF did with the Sig arm brace.
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wyowanderer
/ June 9, 2015Very cool gun, nevertheless.
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daddybear71
/ June 9, 2015Yep. I’m going to mix these up. Small arms, military weapons, ammunition.
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Old NFO
/ June 9, 2015Only gun that has an airplane built AROUND it! 🙂
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daddybear71
/ June 9, 2015Yep. The Air Force proved that if you put a big enough engine on it, you could make a Gatling gun fly.
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