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The air-cooled gun's practical rate of fire is about 300 rounds per minute with a 10-minute cooling period. [7] The gun has a positive cook-off safety for open bolt clearing, and double ram prevention. Spent casings are ejected overboard through the bottom of the gun. The mount on the AH-64 uses secondary hydraulics to move the gun.
The NR-23 was used on fighter aircraft, including the MiG-15, Lavochkin La-15, MiG-17, and some models of the MiG-19. In addition, it was also used on the Ilyushin Il-28 and Beriev Be-6 . The AM-23 was used in the defensive turrets of the Antonov An-12 B, Myasishchev M-4 , Tupolev Tu-14 , Tupolev Tu-16 , Tupolev Tu-95/Tu-142 , and the Tupolev ...
MiG I-300 (F) - prototype for MiG-9, 1946; MiG's first jet fighter design; MiG I-301 (FS) - production version of MiG-9; MiG I-301T (FT) - experimental two-seat trainer version of MiG-9, 1946; first Soviet aircraft with an ejection seat; MiG I-302 (FP) - experimental version of MiG-9 with the N-37 cannon moved to the side of the fuselage
In 1984, 12 MiG-23MF Frogger B fighter aircraft were imported. Subsequently, towards the end of the 1980s, 54 MiG-23ML Frogger G multi-role fighter aircraft and seven MiG-23UM Frogger C two-seat trainer aircraft were introduced. This expanded MiG-23 force was also dispatched to the Angola civil war and used in air combat.
There are also several gun pods available for mounting on external hardpoints: UPK-23 for air-to-air use, with one or two fixed GSh-23 guns and 200–400 rounds of ammunition, and SPPU-22 pods with traversable barrels for strafing, from 0° to −30° and carried 280 rounds of ammunition in each (they were most often carried by the Su-17/-20 ...
Leighton Battery in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1943. The following is a List of Coastal Batteries in Australia and Territories during World War II.The main threat came early in the war from German raiders and threat of Japanese raids or invasion, and hence all available ordnance was pressed into service, including some obsolete guns and field guns adapted for coast defence.
The guns fired shells weighing 81.7 kg, and thanks to the barreled rifling, had excellent range and accuracy. In 1888, two smaller QF 6 pounder Nordenfelt guns were added. Although the projectiles were only 2.7 kg, they also had excellent accuracy and range. The same year, a Nordenfelt machine gun was mounted facing the entrance gate of the fort.
MiG-23 on display at Air Force Quarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. [citation needed] MiG-23BN on static display at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in Nagpur, Maharashtra. [citation needed] MiG-23BN on static display at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. This airframe was donated by the Indian Air ...