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.

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[Rambunctious]

Armament: One 30mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 500 pound (225 kilograms) Mk-82 and 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) Mk-84 series low/high drag bombs, incendiary cluster bombs.

 

[toobfreak]

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.

Yep, I was studying that round recently myself and thought the same thing. I don't suppose your TP round came with the depleted uranium core! That gun is so badass that it has to be mounted off-center otherwise when fired, the kick from it would cause the whole plane to change course.

 

[1srelluc]

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.

I read where 4 was the average. Of course if they hit a wing root with just one it was all over.

Testing verified that the autocannon was well suited to this role, requiring on average just four hits with its 85g RDX -load (in a 330g shell) and a resulting strongly brisant high-explosive ammunition, to bring down a heavy bomber such as a B-17 Flying Fortress or B-24 Liberator, and just a single hit to down a fighter.

MK 108 cannon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JGalt]

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??

Ok, so I mistitled the thread.

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

 

[Lockback]

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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It can vaporize just about anything.

 

[JGalt]

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

I found a dick once at a garage sale. I left it where it was on the table .

 

[JGalt]

Holy Toledo! How much does that thing weigh?

1 pound 2.8 ounces. Another 5.11 ounces if it had powder in it, from what I could find.

 

[JGalt]

Yep, I was studying that round recently myself and thought the same thing. I don't suppose your TP round came with the depleted uranium core! That gun is so badass that it has to be mounted off-center otherwise when fired, the kick from it would cause the whole plane to change course.

No depleted uranium core in this one, just solid steel.

 

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