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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.
A rotary cannon, rotary autocannon, ... Another multi-barrel design is the hydraulically driven GAU-8 Avenger 30 mm autocannon, carried on the A-10 Thunderbolt II ...
The Thunderbolt II's airframe was designed around the high-power 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary autocannon. The airframe was designed for durability, with measures such as 1,200 pounds (540 kg) of titanium armor to protect the cockpit and aircraft systems, enabling it to absorb damage and continue flying. Its ability to take off and land from ...
GAU-12 Equalizer United States: Cold War 30: External: GAU-8 Avenger United States: Cold War 30: External: GAU-13 United States: Cold War 30: Internal: Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 Soviet Union: Cold War 37: External: T250 United States: Cold War 37: External: Hotchkiss 1-pounder Rotary Cannon France: 19th century 47: External: Hotchkiss 3-pounder ...
GAU-8 Avenger: Seven-barrelled Rotary cannon: 30 mm A-10/OA-10 Thunderbolt II: GAU-22/A: Four-barrelled Rotary cannon: 25 mm F-35 Lightning II: M61: Six-barrelled Rotary cannon: 20 mm F-15 Eagle F-16 Fighting Falcon F-22 Raptor: GAU-23/A: Chain gun autocannon: 30 mm AC-130: M102: Howitzer: 105 mm AC-130: GAU-16: 12.7 mm UH-1 Iroquois: GAU-17
Size comparison between 30×170mm and 5.56x45mm NATO. The 30 mm caliber is a range of autocannon ammunition. It includes the NATO standardized Swiss 30×173mm (STANAG 4624), the Soviet 30×155mmB, 30×165mm and 30×210mmB, the Czechoslovak 30×210mm, the Yugoslav 30×192mm, the British 30×113mmB, and the French 30×150mmB and 30×170mm cartridges.
General Electric entered a version with a small turret mounting their 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon from the A-10 Thunderbolt II. It included a single search/track radar adapted from the earlier FAAR, although they later suggested an improved system. Raytheon proposed using the turret from the Dutch version of the German Flakpanzer Gepard.
Other versions of the Gatling gun were built from the late 20th century to the present, the largest of these being the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger autocannon as used on the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. [citation needed]