GAU-8/A Avenger: The World’s Biggest Gatling Gun

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gau 88 avenger The GAU-8/A 30mm Gatlin gun is installed on the U.S. Air Force’s A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft and the Navy’s Goalkeeper Close-In Weapon System. The GAU-8/A provides a reliable, high-rate-of-fire, combat-proven weapon for close air support and shipboard defense missions..

gau88 By: Warren Gray “Use Enough Gun.” — Author and big-game hunter Robert C. Ruark, Jr., 1966. The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a massive, seven-barrel, 30x173mm, rotating, Gatling gun, entering service with the U.S. Air Force in 1977. The gun itself measures 19.5 feet long, with 7.54-foot-long barrels, and it weighs 620 pounds, but the entire assembly, including the feed system and ...

gau 888 The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon that is primarily mounted in the United States Air Force 's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. Designed to destroy a wide variety of ground targets, the Avenger delivers 30mm rounds at a high rate of fire.