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  2. GAU-12 Equalizer - Wikipedia

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    The GAU-22/A's major difference is the use of four barrels, rather than the GAU-12/U's five barrels. The GAU-22/A is lighter and has a reduced rate of fire of 3,300 rounds per minute, but maintains the same, high accuracy of 5 milliradians, 80% circle [2] of the GAU-12 [3] and A-10's GAU-8. [4]

  3. File:GAU-12U test firing.ogv - Wikipedia

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    English: The General Dynamics GAU-12/U Equalizer: a five-barrel 25 mm Gatling gun-style rotary cannon used by the United States, Italy and Spain, mounted in their fighter jets such as the AV-8B Harrier II, airborne gunships such as the Lockheed AC-130, and land-based fighting vehicles.

  4. GAU-8 Avenger - Wikipedia

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    GAU-8 mounted in A-10. The Avenger's rate of fire was originally selectable, 2,100 rounds per minute (rpm) in the low setting, or 4,200 rpm in the high setting. [2] This rate was later changed to a fixed rate of 3,900 rpm. [3] At this speed it would take 18 seconds of sustained fire to empty the magazine.

  5. M61 Vulcan - Wikipedia

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    GAU-12 Equalizer – General Electric, 25 mm caliber; GAU-13 – General Electric, 30 mm caliber; GAU-19 – General Electric, 12.7×99 mm caliber; GAU-22 – General Dynamics, 25 mm caliber, 4-barrel version of the GAU-12 mounted internally in the F-35A and in external gun pods on the F-35B and F-35C; GAU-8 Avenger – General Electric, 30 mm ...

  6. M242 Bushmaster - Wikipedia

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    The ammunition used in the M242 may also be used in a variety of weapons such as the GAU-12 Equalizer, the French Giat M811, or the Swiss Oerlikon KBA weapon system. It has the capability to fire U.S. manufactured ammunition as well as the NATO equivalents thereof. Primarily though, it fires six types of rounds: the M791, M792, M793, M910 ...

  7. Depleted uranium - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Marine Corps uses DU in the 25 mm PGU-20 round fired by the GAU-12 Equalizer cannon of the AV-8B Harrier, and also in the 20 mm M197 gun mounted on AH-1 Cobra helicopter gunships. The United States Navy 's Phalanx CIWS 's M61 Vulcan Gatling gun used 20 mm armor-piercing penetrator rounds with discarding plastic sabots and a core made ...

  8. List of multiple-barrel firearms - Wikipedia

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    GAU-8 Avenger: General Electric: 30×173mm United States: 1977 GAU-12 Equalizer: General Dynamics: 25×137mm United States: 1971 GAU-19: General Dynamics.50 BMG United States: 1983 Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 23×115mm Soviet Union: 1975 Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 30 mm caliber Soviet ...

  9. GAU-19 - Wikipedia

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    The GAU-19/A is designed to accept standard NATO .50 caliber M9-linked ammunition. The rate of fire is selectable to be either 1,000 or 2,000 rounds per minute. The Humvee armament kit version fires at 1,300 rounds per minute. The average recoil force when firing is 382 lb/ft, 495 lb/ft or 629 lb/ft depending on firing rate.