Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on the Tank Busting A-10 Warthog and the creative systems and procedures ...

In the late 1980s, the U.S. Air Force faced a serious question — could its famous A-10 Thunderbolt II, nicknamed the “Warthog,” survive in modern combat? The A-10 was a slow and heavily armed aircraft ...

The Warthog A-10 is a badass plane, about that there can be no doubt. And at the heart of that badass plane is the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon, a massive gun the plane itself is essentially ...

The Avenger has seen use in multiple conflicts, earning a reputation that will linger long after the A-10 platform is retired ...

The GAU-8/A is more advanced than the Gatling guns used in the First World War, but the concept remains basically the same. When married to the armored beast that is the A-10 Warthog, the U.S ...

We're talking highly advanced AGM-65 air to ground missiles, unguided Mighty Mouse rocket pods, wing-mounted 20 mm cannon pods, bombs, and of course, the iconic 30mm Gau-8 Avenger cannon mounted ...

Dubbed Warthog, Hog or just Hawg, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the “airplane built around the GAU-8 Avenger 30-mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type cannon” to fight the Soviet tanks ...

The U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II, commonly referred to as ‘Warthog’, was one of the aircraft on display at the Joint Base Andrews Air & Space Expo 2019 that was held last weekend in Camp ...

It's questionable whether the A-10's 30 caliber Gau-8 Avenger autocannon could pierce the armor of the most modern Russian tanks. But rest assured, that doesn't mean the A-10 would be completely ...

Equipped with a GAU-8 Avenger 30-mm rotary cannon that can fire 3,900 rounds per minute, the twin-engine plane is built to conduct close-air-support missions and execute attacks against ground ...

The GAU-8 Gatling gun could be reloaded with 800 rounds of Coke bottle-sized ammunition in 16 minutes by hand. All of this enabled A-10s to fly up to 17 close air support missions a day, an ...

The 30mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling-style cannon fires at an alarming 4,000 rounds per minute (without mechanical complications). And what’s more even impressive is the ammunition — aluminum-jacketed ...