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<br />Man, the GAU-8 develops over 4 tons of recoil force!
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Now, I don't know if this is true or not (there is tons of false info in the civ world regarding military hardware), but I saw on an old episode of Discovery Channel's "WINGS" that the A-10 decelerates rapidly due to the "recoil" of the 30mm, even in a dive. Interesting, even it it's false (which it most likely is).
Sounds like a load of "cool fun facts about military stuff!" BS to me, but does anyone know for SURE?
Vell?
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Good old Wings.
I seem to remember that it slows the A-10 down, and could stop it if the plane could carry that much ammo and if the gun would fire that long.
Maybe not... Not sure now. Probably saw the same episode of Wings.
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I think the big gun on AC-130s (105mm?) move it noticably to the side when they fire it. An Iowa class battleship firing all nine 16" guns in one broadside moves the 60000 ton ship something like 11 feet sideways... Thats a lot of force.