The M134 GAU-17 “Vulcan” cannon is a six-barreled, air cooled, medium machine gun used primarily as a fire suppression weapon in aircraft for the U.S. military. The so-called “Gatling ...

The GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling Gun is the A-10. Remove that gun or modify it in any way, and you end the A-10. That’s why one notion floating around the internet – to make a carrier-based version ...

reason for that lies in its massive armor- shredding 30mm gatling gun that sprouts from its chin — the GAU-8-A Avenger cannon. But as legendary as that gun has become, much of the A-10’s early ...

The A-10 has an impressive rate of fire due to its hydraulically-driven GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun which is able to fire at a rate of 4,200 rounds per minute under the nose of the airframe.