@@mikeb550 let me tell you something Mexico has the ac-130 and the mi-8 Russian helicopter and American Apache and black hawk helicopter ik why because I'm a pilot 🇲🇽🪖🇲🇽🪖 Russia and Korea suppliers mexico
15:00 there is a saying in the military: "To the ally, the sound of an A10 is comforting. To the enemy, they do not know what the A10 sounds like as they are already pink mist"
When youre in a firefight on the ground and hear the very distinct sound of the A-10s engines you know youre going to be alright and the enemy knows theyre f*cked.
The A-10 is my all time favorite weapons platform!!…there is a video out of a pilot who’s plane was severely damaged over Baghdad and she ( Yes I said she) decided she wasn’t going to eject over enemy territory and flew her plan all the way back to base!.. one Bad A$$ Woman there
As a kid, I attended an air show and was allowed to sit in the cockpit of an A-10. Afterwards, the pilot lifted me up to touch the nose of the aircraft. He said "Knock on it," so I did. It felt like I was knocking on a wall of concrete. No 'ding' or ring or something you'd expect to hear from metal... just nothing - no noise, not even a thud. First time I learned how hard titanium is.
The gun was developed first. They built a plane around it. Gave it the "bathtub" cockpit for pilot protection. It stores shell casings internally to avoid lost of flight controll.
Those guys flying in Desert Storm were flying almost continuously and couldn't even get themselves out of the planes. Some of those A-10's had holes in the wings the size of basketballs and still landed.
One A-10 (or rather, its pilot) once managed to land after having lost a wing. And also, because all the hydraulics had failed, she couldn't extend the landing gear, and had to rough it just next to the actual landing strip, in order to avoid damaging it. She walked out under her own power, and the airframe was salvaged, repaired and sent back to combat.
I have a half dozen dummy/inert rounds above my bar, they’re the first thing people see and ask about. When I tell them it’s usually “oh, and they shoot that?!”
I wasn’t allowed to join because of my brain surgeries even though it was my dream growing up but I have an uncle who was an army paratrooper and he said that thing saved their lives multiple times in Afghanistan.
@@mrwoody1413 I remember quite a few years back a buddy of mine with our sense of humor said when he heard it he was never happier to hear the "flying fart of freedom" as he put it. Do some really call it the flying fart?
Basically, General Electric built a massive, 30mm electric Gatling Gun, and Fairchild Republic built an aircraft around that gun. 🤙😎 The gun is not "strapped on", it is an integral part of the aircraft.
Something they failed to mention is that gatling gun is powerful enough to take out a tank. Those bullets/projectiles are so heavy, so hard, and traveling so fast that they can penetrate a tank's armor with kinetic energy. No explosives are needed.
@@mortenBP He said it doesn't stop. The fact that it looses some velocity is physics and undeniable. The gun creates as much backwards push as one of the engines, however it would take an 'unlimited ammo' cheat to fire the gun long enough for that to become a significant effect. The short impulse makes it comparable to hitting a pot-hole while driving down the road. It does technically slow your car down, but it's negligible practically.
Just as an example, firing a semi-auto from kayak on the water will eventually start moving the kayak backward. A kayak already cruising forward won't suddenly stop from doing the same thing. The relative mass and reaction ratios are VERY non-comparable.
We switched barrels every 10,000 rounds on the 20MM M12’s (USN Ordnance guy way way back). They theoretically fired 1000 rpm. The ammo cans in the F-8’s and A-7’s held 250 rounds. Four guns. 250 rounds each. Didn’t unload many rounds. Navy pilots love their guns.
@@Gman41750 right. Same with the m249. But they do overheat and the other reason is because it wears out the barrel like crazy! I never got to fire one in the Army though
Good reaction video Y&F! There is a YT video of Maj. Kim Campbell, who flew her A-10 back to base using the manual backup cables. The primary flight controls were lost during her combat run in the Iraq war. ❤
The aircraft were delivered in white with the false canopy on the bottom, once repainted in camo it was not repainted back. Originally had a barometric altimeter, no radar but every 7th aircraft had a rendezvous beacon to be targeted by a KC-135's APN-59 Search & Weather radar. Worked on these from 1982 to 1985 at Myrtle Beach. Quiet aircraft, 737's going by hurt our unprotected ears. My uncle worked with the gun for GE, "We bring good things to Life"
The sound, the ground forces (at least the allied ones) like to hear, when the shit hits the fan. A friend was in Afghanistan as a German medic. He had 2 situations, where 2 A-10s saves his bacon. I am thankful for that..
The A-10A's were delivered in the late 70s in all white with the false canopy painted, once repainted in camo it was left off. The F-18s were later, first out in 1984, redesigned YF-17 from Northrop that lost competition with the F-16 but adopted by the Navy. Landing gear beefed up for carrier landings. Not sure when the A-10 went back to the false canopy, with them 1982 to 1985.
Canadian F-18s were 1983, A-10A prototypes in 1972, deliveries later with the paintwork. Deployment is going to war or exercise not being put into the military. Former A-10A Technician over 40 years ago, McDonnell Douglas historian as an actual Douglas aircraft employee, North American Aviation/Rockwell International Tech writer and Final test & Checkout Technician plus Boeing Flight Test at Seattle Field 3-390.
That missile under the wing is the Maverick missile it has a range of up to 15 miles and it has a 300 pound blast fragmentation warhead. It will destroy any tank on this Earth.
The US Congress has been trying to kill this plane for years but we know how vital it is and now its got the funding for upgrades and the super warthog is going to be sick.
Look up Kim Campbell aka Killer Chick. Her A10 sustained damage from flak and had hundreds of holes in it but she wad able to fly it back to base and land safely. The pics they released made her a10 look like swiss cheese it was so full of holes.
Any object that is traveling supersonic will produce the same effect of delayed hearing. In addition, each round breaks the sound barrier as it travels to the target producing a mini sonic boom. As they say, if you can hear an A-10 you weren't the target!
The official name is the Thunderbolt, the nickname Warthog was given to the A-10 because the Air Force thought it was ugly. The Air Force complained and complained, as they do, to get rid of it until the Army said that they'd take it over. That shut them up and then it got really sexy after the first Gulf War, check out the Highway of Death for a reference. Also, the Soviets called the A-10 the Cross of Death.
About 2010, I was 4 wheeling into Saline Valley(I think it's part of Death Valley now) which is just south of Death Valley, in California. The road leading into Saline Valley was high on a ridge, heading down to the valley floor. I heard a sound, looked to my left, and 2 A-10's were at my level, it's something I'll never forget!
Used to spend the winter rock climbing in Joshua Tree. The fighter guys would come by so low you could look into the cockpit if you saw them coming. They'd scare the sh*t out you if didn't see them first.
While yes, the rounds that are fed into the GAU-8 are sometimes called bullets, they are commonly called canon rounds by the military. The A-10 uses 30mm rounds.
The other (main) reason they do only short bursts of the Gatling Gun, is because it eats through ammunitions so fast, that they are very quickly out of ammunition.
I can't believe they didn't bring this out, but the gun was actually built before the plane, and the plane was built just big enough to hold the gun. the rear of the gun is bolted to the tail of the plane. If you want to see what a damaged a-10 is capable of, ruclips.net/video/7VzXN4Ohwro/видео.html. Soldiers in the Gulf wars reported being held down, until the a-10 fired the first time, and at that sound alone the bad guys would run.
They flew out of Myrtle Beach Air Force Base back in the 80s. That was the highlight of my beach trip when I was a child.. getting to see them fly down the beach in formation, only a few hundred feet above the water
While canoeing on the Big Moose River in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate NY. A warthog came flying down the river at tree top level. We waved to each other. Some of the rounds are deplete uranium for Armor. Another iconic sound it when they fire the Sea Wiz.
I grew up at the M.C.A.S in Beaufort S.C. and it was such an awesome experience. When we were on Laurel Bay school you could hear the jets flying over all the time. On the Air Station all the helicopters and jets flying around. It was such a cool childhood. I got watch them outside the base everytime I go home to visit. What's awesome is you can hear the recruits shooting at Parris Island on one side of town and the Air Station activity from the other side of town.
He said that it took 30-45 minutes, that depends on what all was going on it. That's not just for the gun ammo. A little interesting note. When they are rearming and refueling the plane, they don't shut it down. They keep the engines idling because the most likely time for there to be a problem is during start up.
Theres actually 3 sounds. The first thing you hear are the rounds going supersonic. Then you hear impact then you hear the cannon. So it sounds like “eeeeeee rrrrrrr ggrrrrrrr”. Its unreal to hear and feel in person. Shakes the ground
I was associated with an A10 Squadron flying out of Fairbanks, Alaska back in the 80s. The would ingress and egress from the ranges through the hills and forests flying at 50-100 feet and terrain following until they hit the final mark when they would pop up in a climb to about 400-500 feet, roll inverted and pull the nose down on the target, roll back upright, fire, then climb turn back to 400-500 feet and roll into another dive and exit the target area at about 50-100 feet again. You literally wouldn't hear them until the last few seconds then the brrrp of the gun a quick evasion turn and back out of site. total visual duration of about 8-9 seconds It was more difficult in the flat desert terrain so they had to fly even lower and evasion was more difficult. I know of one A10 returning to base on the border of Iraq and Saudi Arabia with half the tail, one engine, and half of one wing missing from enemy fire, and he landed successfully at the forward operating base. Incredible beast.
They have tech now that allows you to look through the plane as if it's invisible. Just like any American rapid fire machine gun. You CAN empty the belt w/o hurting anything. You can do it a few times before the thing overheats. 60 mm for example can quick change barrels for rotation. It takes about 10 seconds. The GAU - 8 shoots beer bottles. You can empty it. The air cooling keeps it cool. But you won't hit the target. The thing is violent.
there is recoil and actually the thrust created by the cannon is slightly more than the engines; no where enough to make the plane stall. but speed is reduced a small amount
Probably fairly common for a soldier to be hit before the sound arrives. If you do hear it they either missed you or were looking at another target. The speed of sound in air is roughly 1125 feet per sec. Modern military rifles have muzzle velocities of about 3900 feet per second. So many never hear the shot at all. The A-10 ammo has a muzzle velocity of 3500 feet per second. Over double the speed of sound.
From the ground it sures looks like they stop for a second when they fire. The air speed has to drop. They had a problem of the engines cutting out when the main gun fired so they put automatic starters on them. Like your car at a stop light.
kind of a fun thing I saw. firing the A-10 Thunderbolt II's GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun for too long could cause the engine to stall or overheat due to engine disturbances caused by ingesting gun gas
Many cases of friendly fire which is why the AX predominantly uses missiles and bombs for CAS. Many of those confirmed kills have also been proven to be from other planes and then credited towards the AX to justify its continued use. But big plane goes brr and that's just awesome
It fired so many bullets, so fast, that yhe smoke strangles out the engines, so they had to design a starter to the trigger to kick the engines back on once they stop shooting.
Actually if they hold the trigger down too long. The plane will fall out of the sky. Because the GAU-8 produces more NEGATIVE THRUST than one entire engine produces forward thrust.
@@blairhaffly1777 actually if they kept firing long enough. Eventually it would overcome their forward momentum and then they would stall and fall out of the sky. Obviously they don't let that happen.
@@blairhaffly1777 like I said it would have to be a continuous sustained rate of fire over a very extended long period of time. Which the pilot would never allow to occur. So yes it doesn't actually happen.
@brianjohnson3795 Okay, I looked it up. The cannon has enough recoil to equal one of its two engines. It carries enough ammo for an 18-second continuous burst. So technically, if the plane was flying at nearly stall speed already, there's a chance it could be forced into a stall if they were really trying to make this happen. So the accurate claim is that the cannon has 1/2 the recoil thrust of the planes engines.
Proper terminology: they are "cartridges," not bullets. The projectile that flies downstream, that's the bullet, which leaves the cartridge behind (casing, propellant, primer). The burning flare-like objects dumped out of the planes periodically would be a missile defense system, to direct or confuse the heat-seeking guidance systems onboard missiles allowing the plane to evade. Speed of sound is above 1,100 feet per second (335 meters per second). Even low powered small arms achieve that, such as a .22 rimfire. Naturally a bullet reaches target before the approaching sound is heard. The bullet itself produces a sound as it drags in air, the crackle often heard from a distance is the shockwave produced from the bullet traveling faster than the speed of sound, and of course the boom is the expanding gas that exited the barrel muzzle when fired. Sleek bullets disrupt air less, and therefore produce less noise moving downrange. Depending on where you are listening, all these factors will determine what you hear, and when.
You two should look for the live video feeds from Afghanistan of the troops on the ground who called in for support, now awaiting their arrival with cameras aimed at the enemy hiding in a tree line. Next thing they hear is the planes, then the enemy in the trees getting strafed with hundreds of rounds like a buzz saw!
You should watch the video of the female (kim campbell a10 pilot that almost got shot down in Iraq. And landed with no hydraulics and massive holes in her wings.
About the only thing scarier than an A10, is an AC130 doing laps over your position. If I was asked to design a weapon platform, it would have ended up being the AC130. Take a heavy transport frame and just put a ton of weapons on it. It's kind of like a Tractor-trailer (Lorry) where the trailer had nothing but guns & ammo with a sophisticated suite of electronics for targeting.
The "Warthog" can also fly at a max of around 35 thousand ft., or the same height as a commercial airliner, but they don't usually do that for many reasons. Also, they forgot to mention that the "Warthog" fires rounds made from depleted uranium because of its extreme hardness. It can literally turn any tank in the world into Swiss cheese in just a one to two second burst. And they didn't show you the actual damage these things can take. There have been some that have returned with only one engine, or half a wing missing or one vertical stabilizer missing. And, more often than not, they return absolutely peppered with little holes from small arms fire. Unfortunately, they're going to retire it soon - but that's a "maybe" because it was supposed to have been retired twenty years ago, at least, but the Marines and other infantry personnel have kept Congress from retiring it. Who knows, maybe we can keep extending its life by another decade...or two! So far, the military hasn't even come up with a different aircraft design to replace it and its unique abilities, so it'll be around for a while longer.
I'm not military, but my Grandfather and uncle were. Why would you take away the infanties best support plane, regardless if the airframe is 50 years old? Does it do the job? Don't fix what's not broken, unless you can come up with a better solution.
@@markh.7650 Exactly. Supposedly the F-35 is going to take that role, which is ridiculous. It's waaay too expensive and it's turning radius too large to be used successfully as a CAAS aircraft. Back in '92, there was this amazing little jet powered fighter that was light, inexpensive (at that time) and could turn on a dime. But the most important thing was that it had the same gatling cannon the warthog has, albeit a 25mm cannon vs. the warthog's 30mm. But it was equally as deadly, no doubt at all. Plus, it had many hardpoints under its wings for missiles, bombs etc. It was designed by Burt Rutan, an aviation pioneer. It was designed, tested and ready for production. But, for some reason, politics probably, it was shelved and never looked at again. The original promo video might still be here under "mudfighter".
@@markh.7650 I forgot to mention, ironically, Burt Rutan's brother just passed away last week. He flew non-stop around the world in an ultralight prop driven aircraft back in 1986. I was still in highschool at the time. But, It's a shame they worked so hard to be innovative, yet maintain the basic idea behind the Warthog only to be snubbed. It's amazing how quick that jet turns! Even the warthog takes a good long while to come back around! It even had the redundant controls the warthog has (hydraulic plus mechanical) and an armored fuel tank away from the pilot. It even had a way to cool the hot exhaust gasses in order to fool heat seeking missiles. It was truly ahead of its time.
No, you're wrong. The whole idea of a Gatling type gun is PREVENT overheating of any single barrel. High-cycle rate single barrel machine guns like the famed German MG42 only did bursts but even at that, you always had a couple spare barrels so you could swap them out. Going to a multi-barrel gun reduces that problem greatly.
Royal Canadian Air Force stopped painting the fake canopies on the underside of their jets (in peacetime) because they were causing near-accidents in training 😁
As a wise man once said the a10 is what you get when you hand a Florida man a lab coat a bottomless defense budget and tell him to build the scariest thing since the cretaceous period
There is the potential for overheating, but more importantly, nothing is surviving a 1-2 second burst from the gun, so a 20 second burst would be incredibly wasteful.
My father has 2 live A-10 30mm rounds at his house. Lol did the bullets are incredibly large. I think you would be shocked if you could hold one. I was.
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if you hear the sound of the gun of an A10 you were not the target
Yep. If you hear the BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT you weren't the target.
Facts 💯
Yup! 100% I would know
@@mikeb550 let me tell you something Mexico has the ac-130 and the mi-8 Russian helicopter and American Apache and black hawk helicopter ik why because I'm a pilot 🇲🇽🪖🇲🇽🪖 Russia and Korea suppliers mexico
Haha best comment ever 🤣
15:00 there is a saying in the military: "To the ally, the sound of an A10 is comforting. To the enemy, they do not know what the A10 sounds like as they are already pink mist"
When youre in a firefight on the ground and hear the very distinct sound of the A-10s engines you know youre going to be alright and the enemy knows theyre f*cked.
If you hear the gun, it wasn't meant for you!!!
LOL
That sound is the most beautiful to an infantry grunt like me. - - because it's ours.
Or it missed, slightly. In which case, you heard it.
The A-10 is my all time favorite weapons platform!!…there is a video out of a pilot who’s plane was severely damaged over Baghdad and she ( Yes I said she) decided she wasn’t going to eject over enemy territory and flew her plan all the way back to base!.. one Bad A$$ Woman there
AKA Killer Chick.
That was Killer Chick, wasn't it? Can't remember her civvie name, but that lady was a goddamned warrior!
As a kid, I attended an air show and was allowed to sit in the cockpit of an A-10. Afterwards, the pilot lifted me up to touch the nose of the aircraft. He said "Knock on it," so I did. It felt like I was knocking on a wall of concrete. No 'ding' or ring or something you'd expect to hear from metal... just nothing - no noise, not even a thud. First time I learned how hard titanium is.
The A-10 is the sound of not dying today. The sound of the cannon is my favorite sound.
The gun was developed first. They built a plane around it. Gave it the "bathtub" cockpit for pilot protection. It stores shell casings internally to avoid lost of flight controll.
A-10 Warthog saved my ass!
Those guys flying in Desert Storm were flying almost continuously and couldn't even get themselves out of the planes. Some of those A-10's had holes in the wings the size of basketballs and still landed.
One A-10 (or rather, its pilot) once managed to land after having lost a wing.
And also, because all the hydraulics had failed, she couldn't extend the landing gear, and had to rough it just next to the actual landing strip, in order to avoid damaging it. She walked out under her own power, and the airframe was salvaged, repaired and sent back to combat.
The bullets are comparable in shape and size, to a longneck bottle of beer.
Reading this comment while enjoying a bottle of Corona after work. Neat, wouldn’t want any part of that.
I have a half dozen dummy/inert rounds above my bar, they’re the first thing people see and ask about. When I tell them it’s usually “oh, and they shoot that?!”
Made out of uranium
That incredible brrrrrt is music to the ears of anyone who has ever been in combat
I wasn’t allowed to join because of my brain surgeries even though it was my dream growing up but I have an uncle who was an army paratrooper and he said that thing saved their lives multiple times in Afghanistan.
@@mrwoody1413 I remember quite a few years back a buddy of mine with our sense of humor said when he heard it he was never happier to hear the "flying fart of freedom" as he put it. Do some really call it the flying fart?
Basically, General Electric built a massive, 30mm electric Gatling Gun, and Fairchild Republic built an aircraft around that gun. 🤙😎
The gun is not "strapped on", it is an integral part of the aircraft.
The aircraft was designed to put the weapon on target, they didn’t build the plane and then slap this weapon into it because it was just laying around
Also still fairly easily removed, have some jack stands ready cause you might put her on the tail with all that weight removed.
The Taliban would call it "the devil's cross" because of its distinctive silhouette as seen from below, and its unmerciful firepower.
Something they failed to mention is that gatling gun is powerful enough to take out a tank. Those bullets/projectiles are so heavy, so hard, and traveling so fast that they can penetrate a tank's armor with kinetic energy. No explosives are needed.
Also the gun is so powerful that it slows down the plane when it fires
Uhm, the pilot said in the video that's a myth. ( I thought so too up to this point)
@@mortenBP He said it doesn't stop. The fact that it looses some velocity is physics and undeniable. The gun creates as much backwards push as one of the engines, however it would take an 'unlimited ammo' cheat to fire the gun long enough for that to become a significant effect. The short impulse makes it comparable to hitting a pot-hole while driving down the road. It does technically slow your car down, but it's negligible practically.
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I guess the main misunderstandment revolved around the belief that the aircraft would fly into a stall if the gun fired for too long.
Just as an example, firing a semi-auto from kayak on the water will eventually start moving the kayak backward. A kayak already cruising forward won't suddenly stop from doing the same thing. The relative mass and reaction ratios are VERY non-comparable.
Miniguns actually dont overheat because its multi barreled. The overheating thing is a fictional video game trait.
We switched barrels every 10,000 rounds on the 20MM M12’s (USN Ordnance guy way way back). They theoretically fired 1000 rpm. The ammo cans in the F-8’s and A-7’s held 250 rounds. Four guns. 250 rounds each. Didn’t unload many rounds. Navy pilots love their guns.
@@Gman41750 right. Same with the m249. But they do overheat and the other reason is because it wears out the barrel like crazy! I never got to fire one in the Army though
You'll be dead before you hear it, a fitting analogy.
Compared to other jets the A-10 flies low and slow. However it's designed to do the job and bring it's pilot home.
15:17 that’s why they say “If you hear the BRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTT, you weren’t the target “.
Good reaction video Y&F! There is a YT video of Maj. Kim Campbell, who flew her A-10 back to base using the manual backup cables. The primary flight controls were lost during her combat run in the Iraq war. ❤
The rounds traveling faster than the speed of sound is like when you see lightning before the sound of the thunder it delivers.
The aircraft were delivered in white with the false canopy on the bottom, once repainted in camo it was not repainted back. Originally had a barometric altimeter, no radar but every 7th aircraft had a rendezvous beacon to be targeted by a KC-135's APN-59 Search & Weather radar. Worked on these from 1982 to 1985 at Myrtle Beach. Quiet aircraft, 737's going by hurt our unprotected ears. My uncle worked with the gun for GE, "We bring good things to Life"
The sound, the ground forces (at least the allied ones) like to hear, when the shit hits the fan. A friend was in Afghanistan as a German medic. He had 2 situations, where 2 A-10s saves his bacon. I am thankful for that..
The false canopy on the underside of the A-10 was actually invented by the Canadians. It is on all of their F-18's.
The A-10A's were delivered in the late 70s in all white with the false canopy painted, once repainted in camo it was left off. The F-18s were later, first out in 1984, redesigned YF-17 from Northrop that lost competition with the F-16 but adopted by the Navy. Landing gear beefed up for carrier landings. Not sure when the A-10 went back to the false canopy, with them 1982 to 1985.
@@VotecEV2 sorry my dude - first CF-18's in 1982 and the had the false canopy. And the A-10 as it was actually deployed came later.
Canadian F-18s were 1983, A-10A prototypes in 1972, deliveries later with the paintwork. Deployment is going to war or exercise not being put into the military. Former A-10A Technician over 40 years ago, McDonnell Douglas historian as an actual Douglas aircraft employee, North American Aviation/Rockwell International Tech writer and Final test & Checkout Technician plus Boeing Flight Test at Seattle Field 3-390.
That missile under the wing is the Maverick missile it has a range of up to 15 miles and it has a 300 pound blast fragmentation warhead. It will destroy any tank on this Earth.
The US Congress has been trying to kill this plane for years but we know how vital it is and now its got the funding for upgrades and the super warthog is going to be sick.
"The Monster" during Desert Storm 😎🥃
Look up Kim Campbell aka Killer Chick. Her A10 sustained damage from flak and had hundreds of holes in it but she wad able to fly it back to base and land safely. The pics they released made her a10 look like swiss cheese it was so full of holes.
Any object that is traveling supersonic will produce the same effect of delayed hearing. In addition, each round breaks the sound barrier as it travels to the target producing a mini sonic boom. As they say, if you can hear an A-10 you weren't the target!
I was in the Air Force for 10 years. I knew guys who fly A-10s. After firing the main gun, they smelled of gunpowder for hours.
The official name is the Thunderbolt, the nickname Warthog was given to the A-10 because the Air Force thought it was ugly. The Air Force complained and complained, as they do, to get rid of it until the Army said that they'd take it over. That shut them up and then it got really sexy after the first Gulf War, check out the Highway of Death for a reference. Also, the Soviets called the A-10 the Cross of Death.
About 2010, I was 4 wheeling into Saline Valley(I think it's part of Death Valley now) which is just south of Death Valley, in California. The road leading into Saline Valley was high on a ridge, heading down to the valley floor. I heard a sound, looked to my left, and 2 A-10's were at my level, it's something I'll never forget!
Used to spend the winter rock climbing in Joshua Tree. The fighter guys would come by so low you could look into the cockpit if you saw them coming. They'd scare the sh*t out you if didn't see them first.
While yes, the rounds that are fed into the GAU-8 are sometimes called bullets, they are commonly called canon rounds by the military. The A-10 uses 30mm rounds.
The other (main) reason they do only short bursts of the Gatling Gun, is because it eats through ammunitions so fast, that they are very quickly out of ammunition.
I can't believe they didn't bring this out, but the gun was actually built before the plane, and the plane was built just big enough to hold the gun. the rear of the gun is bolted to the tail of the plane. If you want to see what a damaged a-10 is capable of, ruclips.net/video/7VzXN4Ohwro/видео.html. Soldiers in the Gulf wars reported being held down, until the a-10 fired the first time, and at that sound alone the bad guys would run.
I've seen them in action. They're badass. One of my favorite planes ever, along with the AC-130.
The "Spitting Witch".
He's incorrect at 2:35. The gun is not strapped to the aircraft. The aircraft is strapped to the gun.
Also it's not strapped to, it's fastened within.
They flew out of Myrtle Beach Air Force Base back in the 80s. That was the highlight of my beach trip when I was a child.. getting to see them fly down the beach in formation, only a few hundred feet above the water
“Ok guys, we have this giant gun. Now how do we mount wings to it?”
While canoeing on the Big Moose River in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate NY. A warthog came flying down the river at tree top level. We waved to each other. Some of the rounds are deplete uranium for Armor. Another iconic sound it when they fire the Sea Wiz.
I grew up at the M.C.A.S in Beaufort S.C. and it was such an awesome experience. When we were on Laurel Bay school you could hear the jets flying over all the time. On the Air Station all the helicopters and jets flying around. It was such a cool childhood. I got watch them outside the base everytime I go home to visit. What's awesome is you can hear the recruits shooting at Parris Island on one side of town and the Air Station activity from the other side of town.
He said that it took 30-45 minutes, that depends on what all was going on it. That's not just for the gun ammo. A little interesting note. When they are rearming and refueling the plane, they don't shut it down. They keep the engines idling because the most likely time for there to be a problem is during start up.
🤔 Yeah, definitely need to look for the video on the gal flying one, in war, that was crazy damaged in war that still made it back and landed... 😊
I was a USAF jet mech. on the A10 at Bentwaters AFB in the UK in the 80s...my favorite plane to work on...shout out to Ipswich england.
The rounds for that gun are the size of a beer bottles
Theres actually 3 sounds. The first thing you hear are the rounds going supersonic. Then you hear impact then you hear the cannon. So it sounds like “eeeeeee rrrrrrr ggrrrrrrr”. Its unreal to hear and feel in person. Shakes the ground
the tank of the skys . one of my favorite plains
I was associated with an A10 Squadron flying out of Fairbanks, Alaska back in the 80s. The would ingress and egress from the ranges through the hills and forests flying at 50-100 feet and terrain following until they hit the final mark when they would pop up in a climb to about 400-500 feet, roll inverted and pull the nose down on the target, roll back upright, fire, then climb turn back to 400-500 feet and roll into another dive and exit the target area at about 50-100 feet again. You literally wouldn't hear them until the last few seconds then the brrrp of the gun a quick evasion turn and back out of site. total visual duration of about 8-9 seconds It was more difficult in the flat desert terrain so they had to fly even lower and evasion was more difficult. I know of one A10 returning to base on the border of Iraq and Saudi Arabia with half the tail, one engine, and half of one wing missing from enemy fire, and he landed successfully at the forward operating base. Incredible beast.
They have tech now that allows you to look through the plane as if it's invisible.
Just like any American rapid fire machine gun. You CAN empty the belt w/o hurting anything. You can do it a few times before the thing overheats. 60 mm for example can quick change barrels for rotation. It takes about 10 seconds. The GAU - 8 shoots beer bottles. You can empty it. The air cooling keeps it cool. But you won't hit the target. The thing is violent.
there is recoil and actually the thrust created by the cannon is slightly more than the engines; no where enough to make the plane stall. but speed is reduced a small amount
There was an A-10 that returned to base with over 400 holes in it from enemy fire.
If the landing gear won't come down it can land on the wheels and retracted mode pretty cool
I was stationed at ft knox,there's a 10 range, the jet would slow down, when that cannon would fire,,,super crazy,
GO TIGERS! I live in their area of flight. See them come over my house all the time. Very distinctive sound. LOVE that plane.....
Probably fairly common for a soldier to be hit before the sound arrives. If you do hear it they either missed you or were looking at another target. The speed of sound in air is roughly 1125 feet per sec. Modern military rifles have muzzle velocities of about 3900 feet per second. So many never hear the shot at all. The A-10 ammo has a muzzle velocity of 3500 feet per second. Over double the speed of sound.
From the ground it sures looks like they stop for a second when they fire. The air speed has to drop. They had a problem of the engines cutting out when the main gun fired so they put automatic starters on them. Like your car at a stop light.
I see these in person every Tuesday at selfridge airbase in Harrison Michigan, they are beautiful planes
3:38 no problem with overheating, not enough ammo to overheat
maybe it would overheat after 60 seconds, but he only has ammo for 20 seconds
My favorite plane besides the F-22 Raptor.
The sound of that gun is amazing.
kind of a fun thing I saw. firing the A-10 Thunderbolt II's GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun for too long could cause the engine to stall or overheat due to engine disturbances caused by ingesting gun gas
I live near Moody. This is Warthogville. 😅
Many cases of friendly fire which is why the AX predominantly uses missiles and bombs for CAS. Many of those confirmed kills have also been proven to be from other planes and then credited towards the AX to justify its continued use. But big plane goes brr and that's just awesome
It fired so many bullets, so fast, that yhe smoke strangles out the engines, so they had to design a starter to the trigger to kick the engines back on once they stop shooting.
Actually if they hold the trigger down too long. The plane will fall out of the sky. Because the GAU-8 produces more NEGATIVE THRUST than one entire engine produces forward thrust.
As I read this the pilot in the video said that's not true.
@@blairhaffly1777 actually if they kept firing long enough. Eventually it would overcome their forward momentum and then they would stall and fall out of the sky. Obviously they don't let that happen.
@@brianjohnson3795 Take it up with the pilot. He said it isn't true.
@@blairhaffly1777 like I said it would have to be a continuous sustained rate of fire over a very extended long period of time. Which the pilot would never allow to occur. So yes it doesn't actually happen.
@brianjohnson3795 Okay, I looked it up. The cannon has enough recoil to equal one of its two engines. It carries enough ammo for an 18-second continuous burst. So technically, if the plane was flying at nearly stall speed already, there's a chance it could be forced into a stall if they were really trying to make this happen. So the accurate claim is that the cannon has 1/2 the recoil thrust of the planes engines.
Proper terminology: they are "cartridges," not bullets. The projectile that flies downstream, that's the bullet, which leaves the cartridge behind (casing, propellant, primer).
The burning flare-like objects dumped out of the planes periodically would be a missile defense system, to direct or confuse the heat-seeking guidance systems onboard missiles allowing the plane to evade.
Speed of sound is above 1,100 feet per second (335 meters per second). Even low powered small arms achieve that, such as a .22 rimfire. Naturally a bullet reaches target before the approaching sound is heard. The bullet itself produces a sound as it drags in air, the crackle often heard from a distance is the shockwave produced from the bullet traveling faster than the speed of sound, and of course the boom is the expanding gas that exited the barrel muzzle when fired. Sleek bullets disrupt air less, and therefore produce less noise moving downrange. Depending on where you are listening, all these factors will determine what you hear, and when.
You two should look for the live video feeds from Afghanistan of the troops on the ground who called in for support, now awaiting their arrival with cameras aimed at the enemy hiding in a tree line. Next thing they hear is the planes, then the enemy in the trees getting strafed with hundreds of rounds like a buzz saw!
The GAU-8 rotary cannon, the world's loudest fart.
But, Oh the Relief...that "gas attack" brings!
They might be stopping periodically to restock baked beans.
Great video! Thanks so much, and God bless you!
You should watch the video of the female (kim campbell a10 pilot that almost got shot down in Iraq. And landed with no hydraulics and massive holes in her wings.
About the only thing scarier than an A10, is an AC130 doing laps over your position. If I was asked to design a weapon platform, it would have ended up being the AC130. Take a heavy transport frame and just put a ton of weapons on it. It's kind of like a Tractor-trailer (Lorry) where the trailer had nothing but guns & ammo with a sophisticated suite of electronics for targeting.
the bust fire rate is limited because the recoil is the same as the thrust the jets put out and the plane will stall
Tankbusterrrrrrrr💀
If you're an American soldier on the ground I'm sure the A10 looks like an angel from heaven.
Moody AFB, Valdosta, Georgia
If you're a ground pounder, that's the aircraft you want to see overhead.
The "Warthog" can also fly at a max of around 35 thousand ft., or the same height as a commercial airliner, but they don't usually do that for many reasons. Also, they forgot to mention that the "Warthog" fires rounds made from depleted uranium because of its extreme hardness. It can literally turn any tank in the world into Swiss cheese in just a one to two second burst. And they didn't show you the actual damage these things can take. There have been some that have returned with only one engine, or half a wing missing or one vertical stabilizer missing. And, more often than not, they return absolutely peppered with little holes from small arms fire. Unfortunately, they're going to retire it soon - but that's a "maybe" because it was supposed to have been retired twenty years ago, at least, but the Marines and other infantry personnel have kept Congress from retiring it. Who knows, maybe we can keep extending its life by another decade...or two! So far, the military hasn't even come up with a different aircraft design to replace it and its unique abilities, so it'll be around for a while longer.
I'm not military, but my Grandfather and uncle were. Why would you take away the infanties best support plane, regardless if the airframe is 50 years old? Does it do the job? Don't fix what's not broken, unless you can come up with a better solution.
@@markh.7650 Exactly. Supposedly the F-35 is going to take that role, which is ridiculous. It's waaay too expensive and it's turning radius too large to be used successfully as a CAAS aircraft. Back in '92, there was this amazing little jet powered fighter that was light, inexpensive (at that time) and could turn on a dime. But the most important thing was that it had the same gatling cannon the warthog has, albeit a 25mm cannon vs. the warthog's 30mm. But it was equally as deadly, no doubt at all. Plus, it had many hardpoints under its wings for missiles, bombs etc. It was designed by Burt Rutan, an aviation pioneer. It was designed, tested and ready for production. But, for some reason, politics probably, it was shelved and never looked at again. The original promo video might still be here under "mudfighter".
@@markh.7650 I'm sorry, ARES "Mudfighter".
@@markh.7650 I forgot to mention, ironically, Burt Rutan's brother just passed away last week. He flew non-stop around the world in an ultralight prop driven aircraft back in 1986. I was still in highschool at the time. But, It's a shame they worked so hard to be innovative, yet maintain the basic idea behind the Warthog only to be snubbed. It's amazing how quick that jet turns! Even the warthog takes a good long while to come back around! It even had the redundant controls the warthog has (hydraulic plus mechanical) and an armored fuel tank away from the pilot. It even had a way to cool the hot exhaust gasses in order to fool heat seeking missiles. It was truly ahead of its time.
Jarhead's angel above!
Should go to Oregon and Washington for the weed crawl.
I love the A-10 !!!!!
We used to call it a flying can whoop ass.
That woman is absolutely stunning wow what a beauty like the videos greetings from the states
No, you're wrong. The whole idea of a Gatling type gun is PREVENT overheating of any single barrel. High-cycle rate single barrel machine guns like the famed German MG42 only did bursts but even at that, you always had a couple spare barrels so you could swap them out. Going to a multi-barrel gun reduces that problem greatly.
Royal Canadian Air Force stopped painting the fake canopies on the underside of their jets (in peacetime) because they were causing near-accidents in training 😁
The A10 is like the old Gundam that always better than the new ones.
Ist time watching you guys and happy to say really love it more power
Awesome video 😊
As a wise man once said the a10 is what you get when you hand a Florida man a lab coat a bottomless defense budget and tell him to build the scariest thing since the cretaceous period
this plane is an example of the idea that something ugly can still be very cool ⚛😀
The Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
Is the greatest sound in the world
I'm pretty sure that there are more than a few Brits that knows what it feels like to be on the receiving end of an A-10 strike unfortunately.
if use read the gun from front to back of the takes just over half the lenght of the plane
Everyone: you cant build a.plane
Around a cannon
A10: bullshit...hold my beer and
Watch this
Good video on A-10 Killer Chick. A-10 hit over Bagdad an makes it back to base.
There is the potential for overheating, but more importantly, nothing is surviving a 1-2 second burst from the gun, so a 20 second burst would be incredibly wasteful.
Ah. The mating call of the Hawg
The warthog is nothing but a giant flying GUA-8/A 30mm, they had to build the plane around the gun
For context, 30mm is at caliber 119,1 (if you want to compare to caliber 50)
You might want to check your decimal place.....
Actually, 1-3/16" diameter bullet.
Planes have landed with only 1 wing.
My father has 2 live A-10 30mm rounds at his house. Lol did the bullets are incredibly large. I think you would be shocked if you could hold one. I was.