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- From: MegaZone23 <megazone@obsidian.wpi.edu>
- Subject: Re: Bradley AA version (was Re:helos vs tanks)
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:29:35 GMT
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- From MegaZone23 <megazone@obsidian.wpi.edu>
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- In article <Bzs8Jz.L0o@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Don Palmrose <dpe@inel.gov> writes:
- >Gee, I didn't know that these aircraft can withstand having about 100 deplete
- >uranium shots hit them with the same shells that kill tanks. ;-)
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- The major componentes on the AH-64 and A-10 are armored against 23mm AA rounds
- such as those fired by the ZSU-23-4 air defense weapon. The cockpit on the
- A-10 is also arnored against 30mm AA rounds such as the ZSU-30 uses...
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- >Also, unless my memory has failed me, I thought Phalanx shoots 30mm shells
- >just like the GAU-8A and I thought that the Phalanx gun is a GAU-8A on a ship
- >platform. If I am wrong, someone please correct me.
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- The USN Phalanx system aka the CIWS (Close In Weapons System) is a General
- Electric M61A1 six barrelled 20mm Vulcan cannon in a modular unit with a radar
- unit on top and a self contained ammunition feed. Thr overall shape has led
- to the nickname R2D2.
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- The General Electric GAU8A seven barrelled 30mm Avenger cannon is part of the
- similar Goalkeeper system used by a few European navies. It is a much larger
- blockier structure, although still modular.
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- For either you need to supply a mounting platform and power supply, the unit
- is self-contained.
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- The Avenger is carried by the A-10 and the only other cannon I know which uses
- the same shells are the single barrelled guns on the German GEpard air
- defense vehicle.
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- The Vulcan is carried by the F-4, -14, -15, -16, -18... Some F-111s, the
- B-52H (tailgun), used by the M-163 (based on the M-113), as a towed unit for
- area defense. I belive the F-22 will use it or the new 25mm GE weapon. ie it
- is VERY popular and in enxtensive US service. One of the main reasons it was
- choosen for the CIWS. Years of experience, whereas the Avenger is not nearly
- as wide spread.
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