30mm Gun

[Gripenfelter]

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/30mm.html

[badseed]

Holy SHIITE!!

[civicrider]

set one of those up looking down my drive way
:thumbsup:

[Skylinelover]

Originally posted by civicrider
set one of those up looking down my drive way
:thumbsup:
Until you come driving in and it starts shooting at you :rofl:

[Weapon_R]

Is there any way to download this instead of streaming it?

[mwmhong]

Originally posted by Weapon_R
Is there any way to download this instead of streaming it?

Yeah, here:

http://media.big-boys.com/files05/30mm.wmv

[Texas]

That is an amazing peice of equipment... I know a few people that would not benefit from me owning that.

[962 kid]

haha I was just looking for videos of that yesterday!

heres some more pics:
http://www.airwar.ru/image/i/weapon/gau8_1.jpg

http://users.marshall.edu/~rossett1/aviation/a_10.jpg

[cycosis]

HOLY SHIT:eek:

[knees scrapin']

Qoute:
these guns have a rate of fire in the area of 3500 rounds a minute (courtesy of the Discovery channel). and they do to fire depleted uraniun rounds.


A turbine powered 30 mil gun. :eek: That things fires faster than I can think.

BTW: Its mounted on my quad and I use it to hunt gophers.:rolleyes:

[FallenAngel]

Originally posted by knees scrapin'
Qoute:
these guns have a rate of fire in the area of 3500 rounds a minute (courtesy of the Discovery channel). and they do to fire depleted uraniun rounds.


A turbine powered 30 mil gun. :eek: That things fires faster than I can think.

BTW: Its mounted on my quad and I use it to hunt gophers.:rolleyes:

gophers?? you're wasting its potential! go hunt yourself some helicoptors!

[streetarab]

thats is absolutly ridiculous,
faster than this guy-->:guns:

[DreammEr]

^^ hahaha :rofl:

[iced_out_00]

^^ omg man that shit was hilarious

[Ben]

Yeah, they use guns like that on the A-10 Warthog, exchanging the standard Copper Jacketed Lead bullet with depleted Uranium. WAY WAY WAY more dense than Lead, and it goes through just about anything. There's a reason they call them tank Killers, they'll go though pretty much any armor.

The 30mm x 173 GAU-8/A ammunition was among the most effective ammunition used in Operation Desert Storm with proven performance against all targets, including tanks, armored and light vehicles. The 30mm lightweight family of ammunition was developed to optimize the air-to-ground mission of the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter. This ammunition family is also compatible with all 30mm x 113 gun systems.

The PGU-14/B API Armor Piercing Incendiary round has a lightweight body which contains a sub-calibre high density penetrator of Depleted Uranium (DU). In addition to its penetrating capability DU is a natural pyrophoric material which enhances the incendiary effects. Depleted uranium results from the enriching of natural uranium for use in nuclear reactors. Natural uranium is a slightly radioactive metal that is present in most rocks and soils as well as in many rivers and sea water. Natural uranium consists primarily of a mixture of two isotopes (forms) of uranium, Uranium-235 (U235) and Uranium-238 (U238), in the proportion of about 0.7 and 99.3 percent, respectively. Nuclear reactors require U235 to produce energy, therefore, the natural uranium has to be enriched to obtain the isotope U235 by removing a large part of the U238. Uranium-238 becomes DU, which is 0.7 times as radioactive as natural uranium. . Since DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, there is very little decay of those DU materials. When manufactured as 30mm rounds, each DU projectile contains approximately 4,650 grains [0.66 pounds (lbs)] of extruded DU, alloyed with 0.75 weight percent titanium. The projectile is encased in a 0.8 mm-thick aluminum shell as the final DU round.

[Ben]

To give you an idea how large these are, Here's a pic I just took now of a 50cal BMG AP Round that I was firing last year. This thing blows holes through manhole covers, Concrete reinforced highway dividers (like those on deerfoot), and pretty much everything else.

To give you an idea, this is my cell phone next to it, and on the other side a .375H&H Mag (Good for Moose, Elk, Polar Bears, and other LARGE game), a 5.56mm NATO round used by the All Popular M-16, a .38 Special (revolver) and 2, 9mm rounds from my Beretta.

50cal is 12.7mm, so these 30mm rounds are massive, they're more than twice as wide and twice as tall. So yeah, if I was the enemy and I saw a fuckin Apaché or an A10 Warthog on the horizon, I'd shit my pants, cuz you cant hide from them.

[403Gemini]

ben, im willing to bet money you know all this from memory and didnt need to cut n copy off another site ;)

[Ben]

Dude, I scared most of my class in Legal Studies 30 when I did an Exposé on the Illegal Arms trade, hahahaha.

The teacher loved it though, she was really facinated for some reason, especially coming after the Columbine thing a few months prior. :rolleyes:

[Charon]

Reminds me of the metal storm technology even though its completly different. Just the massive RPM.
This zip has a video with a turret that can do 240,000 rpm
firing 15 x 40mm grenade rounds

http://www.metalstorm.com/videos/40mm_pod_240000rpm.zip

Its too bad I have not seen a method of reloading it so it can sustain that fireing rate.

Unless they decide to mix the technologies and roate barrels full of rounds the same way they are doing single cartrages ...

Lots of videos and information on their site.

[shakalaka]

Schize!!!
Just the sound is damn crazy!!