Stupid question if I may.
Would a miniature A-10 with prop-engines be effective or is the engines placement non-beneficial for prop planes?
Also why not just a heavily modernized A-37?
Why the fuck doesn't America make something that is not half century+ old?
How exactly would you improve the M61?
The problem with gattlings though is that in air combat they never achieve the theoretical maximum RoF. Not sure about it but I think that both recoil-operated and revolver cannons reach maximum rate of fire much more quickly, if not instantly.
Don't want to sound like a smartass but I think after half a century of operational experience, development of different caliber airborne cannons and advances in material engineering would leave enough ground for improvement to engineers that are not memeing in a chinese cartoon forum as leisure.
Ples, it should be called Bronco One Half.
There was a new version to be made for the Comanche called the XM301 which was half the mass and could fire up to 1800rpm, but that got cancelled with the Comanche
The replacement was supposed to be the GAU-13for all multirole aircraft for ground attack which would make every F-16 and F-15E about as comparable to the A-10, but that also got scrapped.
The Giat F2 (M693) south african knockoff is actually around 71kg, the 300+kg includes the naval mount.
It can also be dual fed
Oh is that so? How much does the feed system/ammo weigh?
It should just be called the Bron-
Why are these aircraft so beautiful?
uses a regular belt feed ratchet and claw system to feed and is gas operated.
It'll just feed from belts of ammo.
So again, the gun weighs 71kg