Armaments available to the Warthog:
* Guns: 1× 30 mm (1.18 in) GAU-8/A Avenger gatling gun with 1174 rounds
* Hardpoints: 8× under-wing and 3× under-fuselage pylon stations holding up to 16,000 lb (7,200 kg) and accommodating:
o Mark 82, Mark 83, and Mark 84 general-purpose bombs or
o Mk 77 incendiary bombs or
o BLU-1, BLU-27/B Rockeye II, Mk20, BL-755[27] and CBU-52/58/71/87/89/97 cluster bombs or
o Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (A-10C) or
o GBU-10 Paveway II, GBU-12 Paveway II, GBU-16 Paveway II and GBU-24 Paveway III laser-guided bombs or
o Joint Direct Attack Munition (A-10C)[28] or
o AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missiles and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles or
o LAU-68 Hydra 70 mm (2.76 in) and 127 mm (5.0 in) rocket pods or
o Illumination flares, ECM and chaff pods or
o ALQ-131/ALQ-184 ECM pod or
o LITENING AT/Sniper XR targeting pods (A-10C)

This is mounted on Jets?

>> ^Peroxide:
This is mounted on Jets?


Not exactly, they basically bolted wings onto it and squeezed a cockpit in there for a pilot and called it an A-10. That's no joke either.

>> ^Peroxide:
This is mounted on Jets?


Yeah, it's the GAU-8 Avenger built for the A-10 Thunderbolt II (sometimes called the Warthog).

The gun fires 3900 rounds per minute and the recoil is so powerful it can actually slow down the jet in flight.

I want one.

Can this be mounted to the front of my 2008 Silverado HD?

If Al-Qaeda were hiding in storage sheds instead of caves the war on terror would be a cakewalk.

Seriously though, I've heard that the gun can only be fired for x continuous seconds before the plane stalls. Anyone know if that's a myth?

>> ^TheSofaKing:
Can this be mounted to the front of my 2008 Silverado HD?


I think you might have some problems with that, you know, given its size:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg

I'll sure give you props for trying though.



>> ^xxovercastxx:
Seriously though, I've heard that the gun can only be fired for x continuous seconds before the plane stalls. Anyone know if that's a myth?


I'm gonna go ahead and call myth on this one. The recoil force of the gun is great, and can indeed slow the plane down some, but the thrust that the engines of the plane provide is still over twice that of the gun recoil. Add to that the fact that there is basically no situation where you would fire this gun and not be in a dive, and the fact that there would almost never be any reason to fire it for more then ~two seconds continuesly and I don't see how it could realistically stall the plane.

I wouldn't breathe that stuff. That depleted uranium will make you, y'know, cough.

That gun is usually fired during a dive. from what I've heard, pilots like to acquire their targets inverted, looking out their canopies, roll and fir in a dive, "rudder stomping" to waggle the nose, spraying the target, so whatever action the recoil has on the airframe acts as a brake, so it's no big deal.

I know all this because I played the video game.

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