Inside US Air Force Massive Facility Maintaining A-10’s Scary Gatling Gun

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Published 2024-07-10
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All Comments (21)
  • @OzSpud72
    Others - My fighter plane has a machine gun attached. A10 - My machine gun has a airplane attached.
  • @FRizzoOntheG
    THAT IS TOTALLY AWESOME & My Hat's Off to all SERVICEMEN & WOMEN ....STAY SAFE & GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU SAFE 🙏
  • I really love the Hog. And the ground troops seem to love it even more. I hope they upgrade it instead of retiring it. I hope the sky never stops farting. 😂
  • @mimmaccio1
    Bellissimo Cannone. Devastante quando spara!!
  • The music is great it made me immediately think what if it accidentally switches on in the shop
  • @V2catapults
    At the 3:47 mark it call the aircraft the A-10 Lightning II (Warthog). It the A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) Thunderbolt after the Great WWII Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
  • @jims6450
    Seeing the fluid cavitation inside the A-10's ball compass caused by the firing of the cannon was amazing. Talk about rattling your eye teeth! How does the pilot even see while his eyeballs are being rattled like that! The whole world must be a total blur for them. Wow!
  • @DA-kg4fw
    Terrifying . Glad I'm on your side.😮
  • Is there an automotive after market version? I need one for my truck for those challenging days in traffic
  • @xthanman
    Whoa 6:46 the liquid in the old school magnetic compass was shaking into bubbles when the gun was fired??!! Crazy engineering must be in place to avoid premature airframe metal fatigue.
  • @skunkjobb
    8:45 The V-22 is not a helicopter, it's a VTOL aircraft.
  • @zackallen76
    At 7:08 you can see the recoil is enough to shake bubbles into the old school compass. LOL
  • @ashtiboy
    hey usa make a smaller 35mm single barrel, quad or tri barrel lighter vesions of the gau-8. we are giong to need these new versions of them that is ment for bascly of both auto cannon and gattling cannons verson of this for smaller aircraft and veacels. how it works bascly it just trades all of that exrta fire rate RPM in exchange for much smaller size, weght and better long range accritsy. this is so we can have some of that gau-8 high cabler firepower but its just fire at a bit slower fire rate but its also a bit smaller and more acrute for them smaler vecales. like we do need some better way of dealing with drones and very long range fire and foget self gided jont strike range missle sistems that can be mounted on much smaler vecales and aircraft. we are giong to need it when more armored gps jaming harden uavs drone swarms that are now allready being abavle this year to the enemys of nato. this is giong to be needed to cheaply and effectly conuter of all of those as well.
  • @joseadavila7445
    I was station in fort bliss tx and when we went to the field in the desert . This a 10 would low fly and rock their wings over our convoys i was young and naive just thinking of the job ahead to set up camp to gunnery fire ada artillery missiles at a range near white sands missile range . And would think that they would fry us if we where the enemy in a war . You dont see or hear them until they are on top of you . And nite other war plane shacking us with their after burners . Love it becouse i knew they where ours protecting us out there .
  • @ReLIFE-w9q
    great How is the Gun cleaned after use?
  • Richard Gatling is sporting wood looking down on this version of his invention