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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
It has a rate of fire from 2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute [6] from a 4,000-round linked belt. As the GAU-2B/A, the Minigun was also used on the U.S. Air Force AC-47, AC-119 and Lockheed AC-130 gunships. The AC-47 was known during the Vietnam War as "Puff the Magic Dragon" and was said to be "the only thing that scared the VC". This weapon was ...
The GAU-13/A is a four-barreled rotary cannon based on the mechanism of the larger GAU-8, sharing the same massive 30 mm ammunition. Like the Avenger, it has a double-ended feed system with reverse clearing to remove unfired rounds. Unlike the GAU-8, however, it is pneumatically driven, giving it a rate of fire of 2,400 rounds per minute.