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- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ciss!law7!military
- From: Michael Gallagher <gallaghe@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Subject: Re: Bradley AA version (was Re:helos vs tanks)
- Message-ID: <Bzo8oq.C5G@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:31:38 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Michael Gallagher <gallaghe@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
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- In sci.military, ksw3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KENNETH STARR WATSON) writes:
- >From ksw3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KENNETH STARR WATSON)
- >
- > Why not add a 30mm GAU-8A cannon (the kind the A-10 carries) to the Bradley
- >. Supposedly
- > its extremely effective against armor and would probably make a decent
- > point defence weapon as well? There's always the ammo problem, but if you
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- Problem with 30mm weapon use is there is no AP round in service
- - the A-10 and Apache AH-64 helicoter use a dual purpose 30mm round
- that is slow and probably won't defeat the future threat land combat
- vehicle the Bradley will come up against. That is why the Army wants
- 45/50mm rounds and EM/ETC cannons.
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- The reason the 30mm round is effective now is because it is a top
- attack weapon, and also being shot from the A-10, it has a little additional
- initial velocity from the aircraft launching speed (a few hundred f/s
- helps when KE = 1/2*m*v*v). Also, as you remember from Desert Storm,
- when the AH-64 attacked land combat vehicles, it used its Hellfire missiles,
- not the 30mm.
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