>> ^ant:
MythBusters had this one in one of their episodes to shoot a dead tree down.


They also shot a fish in a barrel with it.

>> ^supersaiyan93:
okay, i get the panels on each side of the shooter, but dude, his balls are behind just glass.



Do you think that they are gonna spend that much money on the gun and the modification to the roof and NOT replace the windshield and other windows with bulletproof glass?

Aw, hey, thanks!

In reply to this comment by randomize:
*promote as a thank you =)

>> ^deathcow:
you're telling me that is GUNFIRE? that is from the gatling gun on this beast? oh my god they are going to put an eye out with that crap
I wonder if that effectively vaporizes a large part of the body. Instant vaporization would be a great way to go. You didn't think the conscious should be shut down gradually did you?


As the gun is designed to shread Armor, that is -tanks-, it would have to be somewhat overmatched for anti-personnel duty. Which is what the cluster muntions are for. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

The GAU-8 Avenger on the A-10 Warthog is meant as a Anti-Tank weapon thus it is loaded with a combat mix munitions composed of Armor Piercing Incendiary (DU) and High Explosive Incendiary rounds.

"The GAU-8 Avenger fires a mix of both high explosive incendiary (HEI) and armored piercing incendiary (API) ammunition. A typical combat load for the GAU-8 would include 1,100 rounds of 30mm high explosive or armor piercing ammunition. The 30mm API is mixed with 30mm High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) at the factory and is called Combat Mix Ammunition. The ratio of API to HEI rounds in the Combat Mix is 4:1. Combat mix is a sequential mixture of DU and HEI rounds in which 1 HEI round followed by 4 DU rounds are fired by the AN/GAU-8 gatling gun. DU is the primary munition for the A/OA-10 in a combat environment."
FAS Article on the GAU-8 Avenger.

The combat mix is a practice solution for what is essentially a belt fed system in the air, changing munitions out is not ideal within a combat zone where targets of opportunity would change requiring a change of attack profile, the A-10 landing and switching out rounds would not work.

I believe this is a video from Afghanistan not Iraq. CAS is provided by US forces for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is an operation of NATO nations including the U.S. BBC News would report casualties, while close calls like this is a daily occurence for operations both in Afghanistan and Iraq. This was from MilitaryVideos.com

you're telling me that is GUNFIRE? that is from the gatling gun on this beast? oh my god they are going to put an eye out with that crap

I wonder if that effectively vaporizes a large part of the body. Instant vaporization would be a great way to go. You didn't think the conscious should be shut down gradually did you?

I see what you're saying: That 90% of tech submissions would be of the geeky nature...

In reply to this comment by dag:
I hear what you're saying, but I still think the cross-over would be too great. 90% of the tech posts would also be geek posts. That means we're taking up 2 channels where 1 would have done. With growing channel proliferation, we want to conserve those 7 allotted channel spots to be as distinct as possible.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Choggie, you must live in Maine, because it's exactly how you described it.
Than you all for the wonderful comments, and Dag, about the channel thing:
I argue that the crossover is MUCH less than people have made it to be.

For example, I cite these videos:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Solar-Air-Conditioning
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Antikythera-mechanism
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Aquaduct-pedal-powered-water-filtering-vehicle
http://www.videosift.com/video/Computerized-model-of-how-a-Gatling-gun-works
http://www.videosift.com/video/Get-tasered-from-100-feet-away

Things like that get slapped with "geek" even though it really is more of a plain "tech" thing.


I think Rembar (where the hell IS that guy?) summed it up nicely in this channel.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I hear what you're saying, but I still think the cross-over would be too great. 90% of the tech posts would also be geek posts. That means we're taking up 2 channels where 1 would have done. With growing channel proliferation, we want to conserve those 7 allotted channel spots to be as distinct as possible.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Choggie, you must live in Maine, because it's exactly how you described it.
Than you all for the wonderful comments, and Dag, about the channel thing:
I argue that the crossover is MUCH less than people have made it to be.

For example, I cite these videos:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Solar-Air-Conditioning
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Antikythera-mechanism
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Aquaduct-pedal-powered-water-filtering-vehicle
http://www.videosift.com/video/Computerized-model-of-how-a-Gatling-gun-works
http://www.videosift.com/video/Get-tasered-from-100-feet-away

Things like that get slapped with "geek" even though it really is more of a plain "tech" thing.


I think Rembar (where the hell IS that guy?) summed it up nicely in this channel.

ping!

In reply to this comment by Payback:

I wonder if the rotation makes the bullet veer off to the left?

Choggie, you must live in Maine, because it's exactly how you described it.
Than you all for the wonderful comments, and Dag, about the channel thing:
I argue that the crossover is MUCH less than people have made it to be.

For example, I cite these videos:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Solar-Air-Conditioning
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Antikythera-mechanism
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Aquaduct-pedal-powered-water-filtering-vehicle
http://www.videosift.com/video/Computerized-model-of-how-a-Gatling-gun-works
http://www.videosift.com/video/Get-tasered-from-100-feet-away

Things like that get slapped with "geek" even though it really is more of a plain "tech" thing.


I think Rembar (where the hell IS that guy?) summed it up nicely in this channel.

congrats, schmawy! thanks, y'all. srsly.

in lieu of the traditional upvotes? what i'd really like?
check out my playlists, pick one, and sift something specifically for that list.

then come back here, and leave a link to it.
bonus points for sifts with multiple list potential.

you go now.

This one never got any traction, but it's a fair tutorial on blackpowder...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Loading-and-Firing-a-Percussion-Revolver

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
cheers, schmawy!

...in return, i created a brand new playlist, for your first clip here...

Oh, I bet that felt good. I tried to do that earlier and realized I was 50 short. Congratulations yourself, you're one of the bright stars.

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
cheers, schmawy!

congrats on the gold star. in return, i created a brand new playlist, for your first clip here, and it gets my first ever (genuinely invoked)

*promote!

>> ^Aemaeth:
Call me ignorant, but I can't imagine anything we need to fire 3000 RPM at instead of 2000 RPM. At what point is it just ridiculous?


Suppressing fire. You hear that gun, you run. There's no two ways about it. Not to mention that what it really has a stunning effect on is light armored vehicles. You don't even have two shoot at anything for a full second. Just a nice quick squeeze and a thousand rounds say, "No one is getting out of that car."

I was being flippant and sarcastic

In reply to this comment by 101:
>> ^Farhad2000:
>> ^Aemaeth:
Call me ignorant, but I can't imagine anything we need to fire 3000 RPM at instead of 2000 RPM. At what point is it just ridiculous?

Because its 1000 more dead terrorists per minute...


i don't think this gun will see many terrorists..