Any guess on round count?

[ORYGUNHolsterCompany]

Anybody know what gun and the capacity is on one these? Description says it's coming from a cobra, so I'm guessing it is a mini gun of some type? All I know for sure is I want one!

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[Kruel J]

The report doesn't sound like a mini gun to me. And if it's an Apache (it looks like one) it's probably the forward mounted M230 @ 625/per minute.

 

[ORYGUNHolsterCompany]

The report doesn't sound like a mini gun to me. And if it's an Apache (it looks like one) it's probably the forward mounted M230 @ 625/per minute.

Good point on the report it does seem far too slow for a mini gun.

 

[Kruel J]

Cobra's typically have a 3 barrel gatling and only 750 rounds on board. But really, who knows. It sure was cool to watch!!

 

[Member 5605]

Whatever they were shooting from that heli, whatever was on the ground they sure hated...

Longest F_U to the ground I've seen besides an A-10.

(side note: kids today think a Thunderbolt is what's on the back of a Mac computer... we know what a real Thunderbolt is)

 

[Kruel J]

Who doesn't love some Warthog goodness?

 

[Velzey]

Yep that is the M230 chain gun, in 30mm. That helo usually carries about 1200 rounds of 30mm.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Who doesn't love some Warthog goodness?

Apparently the USAF!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Yep that is the M230 chain gun, in 30mm. That helo usually carries about 1200 rounds of 30mm.

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Much chain gun sweetness!

 

[Kruel J]

Apparently the USAF!

They have decided to indefinitely postpone The A-10's retirement. It's not going anywhere!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

That's very good! Ground pounders need love, and close air support, too!

 

[michaeljr]

Watched the video. Proceeded to go on youtube and marathon gun runs. Buuurrpp. Buuuurrp.

 

[Joe13]

Depending on how good the resolution is I could snag a few seconds of video and frame by frame count the tracers and multiply to get a rpm for it.

Do they use a tracer every 10 rounds?

 

[mrblond]

Least it was not a warthog. One of the worst thing I have seen on video was a warthog attacking what they thought was a Iraqi armored column you see the video fizz out as the 30 MM gun fires. then the British soldiers on the ground telling it to Abort the attack.

I don't know if this footage is still around as it was a huge embarrassment on the US over this.

 

[michaeljr]

Least it was not a warthog. One of the worst thing I have seen on video was a warthog attacking what they thought was a Iraqi armored column you see the video fizz out as the 30 MM gun fires. then the British soldiers on the ground telling it to Abort the attack.

I don't know if this footage is still around as it was a huge embarrassment on the US over this.

Favorite aircraft by far.

 

[clearconscience]

I wasn't in the service and can't imagine the stress and anxiety of being on the ground in battle, but I can imagine the pure feeling of joy and pride being in a life and death situation and having those birds come thundering in raining down hell from above.

It gives me chills just thinking about it.

 

[x2ndxall]

I wasn't in the service and can't imagine the stress and anxiety of being on the ground in battle, but I can imagine the pure feeling of joy and pride being in a life and death situation and having those birds come thundering in raining down hell from above.

It gives me chills just thinking about it.

Chub inducing, in fact.

 

[tac]

Least it was not a warthog. One of the worst thing I have seen on video was a warthog attacking what they thought was a Iraqi armored column you see the video fizz out as the 30 MM gun fires. then the British soldiers on the ground telling it to Abort the attack.

I don't know if this footage is still around as it was a huge embarrassment on the US over this.

Gulf War 1 -

• 26 February 1991: Nine British soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, were killed and further 11 injured after their Warrior armoured vehicles were hit by Maverick missiles fired by two U.S. A-10 ground attack aircraft. An Oxford inquest returned a verdict of unlawful killings.
• 27 February 1991: Two British soldiers of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars were injured when their Scorpion armoured vehicles were fired on by U.S. M1 Abrams tanks.
• 14 April 1994: In the 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, 26 Allied military and civilian personnels, including two British Army officers, were killed when two U.S. Air Force F-15Cs fighter aircraft shot down two U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawks helicopters they were in.

Gulf War 2 -

• 23 March 2003: A British Tornado jet was shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile, killing two crewmen.
• 28 March 2003: British Lance-Corporal of Horse Matty Hull was killed by U.S. A-10 jets as well as five others wounded in the 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident.
• 6 April 2003: During the Battle of Debecka Pass, BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson and members of his crew were injured when a bomb dropped from a U.S. F-15 aircraft hit a friendly Kurdish and U.S. Special Forces convoy, killing 15 people, including BBC translator Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed.

Afghanistan -

• 5 December 2006: Royal Marine Jonathan Wigley's death was caused by gunfire from a U.S. F-18 aircraft.
• July 2007: British Guardsman Matthew Lyne-Pirkis, of the Grenadier Guards, was wounded along with three other allied soldiers of the Afghan National Army after being hit by gunfire from a U.S. Apache helicopter gunship.
• 23 August 2007: A bomb dropped by an F-15 killed three soldiers of the Royal Anglian Regiment and wounded a further two. During the subsequent inquest, issues such as inadequate communication equipment and incorrect coordinates from a British forward air controller were raised. The coroner finally stated it was down to the "flawed application of procedures" rather than individual errors or "recklessness".
• 21 December 2009: A British soldier was fatally shot by a US helicopter crew in Afghanistan who thought they were attacking an enemy base. Gunfire from the helicopters left 11 injured on the ground. The coroner criticised the British commanders for the fact Patrol Base Almas was not marked on military maps, for the 'unprofessional' use of grainy images and for insisting there were no friendly forces in the area to the Apache crew.[10]
• 5 December 2010: Private John Howard was killed by American troops after soldiers called for backup. Private Howard is understood to have died as the low-flying pilot attempted to strafe an enemy target with cannon fire.

In April 2002 the US Air Force dropped a LGB on a nighttime training exercise being carried out by Sgt. Marc Leger, 29, Cpl. Ainsworth Dyer, 24, Pte. Richard Green, 21, and Pte. Nathan Smith, 27, killing them all. All were members of Alpha Company, the third battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, who had been engaged in the live-fire exercise at Tarnak Farms. Eight others were gravely injured.

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