I never realized how big a 30mm A-10 Warthog round was

[JGalt]

I found this inert 30mm PGU-15/B TP round at a garage sale today. The 30mm PGU-15/B is an inert Target Practice (TP) round designed for the 30x173mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling-style autocannon used on the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" jet. The thing is massive.

For comparison, here is just the projectile next to a round of British .303, 9mm, and 22 LR. Imagine this thing being pushed along at ~3,350 fps.

 

[OKTexas]

You have about 25mm per inch, so the round is about 1.2 inches in diameter.

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[JGalt]

You have about 25mm per inch, so the round is about 1.2 inches in diameter.

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1.180" measured with a caliper. The 124 grain 9mm bullets weighs about 0.2 ounces, while the 30mm in this one weight 13.2 ounces. At 3300 fps, that thing has a muzzle energy of about 145,500 foot-pounds of energy, can travel over 12,000 feet, and drops 35-40 feet by the time it reaches 1,334 yards. But the but fire control systems in the A-10 automatically compensate for this substantial drop.

 

[Oddball]

I never realized how big a 30mm A-10 Warthog round was​

Really?...Are you phuking kidding?

Do you know a single phuking thing about firearms?

20mm is the threshold for what is considered a cannon....WTF do you think a slug of 30mm diameter, and what the casing to propel it, is going to look like??

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

You got The magic touch at garage sales I never find dick

 

[1srelluc]

Just a slow firing 30mm cannon from a ME-110 was devastating.

 

[OKTexas]

1.180" measured with a caliper. The 124 grain 9mm bullets weighs about 0.2 ounces, while the 30mm in this one weight 13.2 ounces. At 3300 fps, that thing has a muzzle energy of about 145,500 foot-pounds of energy, can travel over 12,000 feet, and drops 35-40 feet by the time it reaches 1,334 yards. But the but fire control systems in the A-10 automatically compensate for this substantial drop.

Yeah, that's why I said "about 1.2 inches".

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[Muhammed]

I found this inert 30mm PGU-15/B TP round at a garage sale today. The 30mm PGU-15/B is an inert Target Practice (TP) round designed for the 30x173mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling-style autocannon used on the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" jet. The thing is massive.

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For comparison, here is just the projectile next to a round of British .303, 9mm, and 22 LR. Imagine this thing being pushed along at ~3,350 fps.

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Holy Toledo! How much does that thing weigh?

 

[westwall]

Just a slow firing 30mm cannon from a ME-110 was devastating.

The MK108 used in a few different aircraft, the 110 being one of them, needed two or three hits to bring down a B-17.

 

[candycorn]

Everytime we have a war in the middle east, the same quasi-orgasmic post is made (I know, I made a few of them)...makes you wonder why other nations are not mass producing these things since they are so durable, so lethal, and so relatively cheap.

We got the coolest planes...no doubt.