ATK's 30mm PGU-series target practice ammunition is especially designed for training applications and is currently used by the 30mm GAU-8/A Gatling gun mounted on the Air Force A-10 Warthog close ...

Filmed throughout acceptance trials for a new lot of ammunition, this impressive clip shows a GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling ... hear the noise of the A-10’s 30mm rotary cannon firing 170 rounds ...

Wanna know what’s behind the trademark BRTTTTT noise of the A-10 Warthog’s GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling Gun ... each round can be induced. The 1,150 30-mm rounds of bullets stored in the drum ...

The biggest source of weight for the GAU-8 was its Coke-bottle-sized 30mm depleted uranian armor ... would be able to carry as much of this ammunition as the A-10. Nonetheless, a cleverly designed ...

is renowned for its GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon, capable of firing 4,200 rounds per minute. -Developed in the 1970s to counter Soviet tanks, the 30mm cannon fires armor-piercing and high-explosive ...

Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson learns about the GAU-8 30-millimeter cannon from Bob ... It is unknown if the Air Force will stick with 30mm depleted-uranium (DU) bullets or if it ...

The weapon is used to test-fire new ammunition used in the A-10 Thunderbolt ... October 18, 2018. The GAU-8 Avenger 30mm gatling gun is designed to fire high explosive incendiary and armor ...

Fired from the A-10's 30mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon, the PGU-13 provides incendiary effects against an array of targets. The ammunition has been extensively used in operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan ...

Besides development of the gun, the contract called for the development of four types of ammunition ... Swiss Oerlikon 304RF 30mm cannon) to be used in case the GAU-8 program failed.

Part of this effort saw the A-10's huge GAU-8 Avenger 30mm cannon shrunk down into a ... as it slung the same coke-bottled size 30X173mm ammunition that its bigger brother did, including depleting ...

The Warthog A-10 is a badass plane, about that there can be no doubt. And at the heart of that badass plane is the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon, a massive gun the plane itself is essentially ...