{"id":49586,"date":"2022-12-03T00:50:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49586"},"modified":"2022-12-04T19:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T18:04:01","slug":"this-is-how-the-gau-8-avenger-works-the-powerful-and-huge-rotary-cannon-of-the-a-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/03\/this-is-how-the-gau-8-avenger-works-the-powerful-and-huge-rotary-cannon-of-the-a-10\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how the GAU-8 Avenger works: the powerful and huge rotary cannon of the A-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That weapon, a Gatling-type gun whose design was launched in 1970, is a 30mm caliber seven-tube rotary cannon with a rate of fire of 3,900 rounds per minute<\/strong>, fed from a hopper with capacity for 1,350 projectiles. In total, the entire system weighs 281 kg and is 2.3 meters long. A video from the YouTube channel 3D Mil-Tech<\/a> shows how it works<\/strong>, with a process that loads the shells into the barrel via a feed path from the hopper, then returns the shells to the hopper. shells of the projectiles already fired:<\/p>\n