Can the GAU-8 Avenger destroy a tank?

A GAU-8 can only take out a tank from certain angles. Mainly from the top and rear which are hard to hit when you are engaging it from the ground like another tank would be doing. The GAU-8 isn’t even close to to being as powerful as the main gun on an MBT, nor can it penetrate the frontal armor of one.

What does a 30mm round do to a person?

30 mm ammunition is typically not used against personnel, but rather as an anti-materiel or armor-piercing round. Rounds of this size can be effective against lightly armored vehicles as well as fortified bunkers. The U.S. military uses 30 mm weapons in their A-10 Thunderbolt II and AH-64 Apache helicopter.

Can the A-10 destroy tanks?

‘As pretty much everyone else answering this question has pointed out… the A-10 can fairly easily destroy a tank. As can anything else slinging either an AGM-65 Maverick or an AGM-114 Hellfire. A freakin’ Cessna, can kill a tank, people.

Can an A-10 destroy an Abrams tank?

Even with all the ammunition, even in the worst case it could not completely obliterate a M1 Abrams tank, it could disable it beyond any reason of operational capability. So the A-10 by itself may not be able to destroy M1 Abrams with its 30 mm GAU-8, but it can carry the necessary weapon systems needed to do the deed.

How many rounds can a warthog carry?

The cannon can fire a range of ammunition, including armour-piercing incendiary rounds (API) weighing up to 0.75kg, or uranium-depleted 0.43kg API rounds. The magazine can hold 1,350 rounds of ammunition. The pilot can select a firing rate of 2,100 or 4,200 rounds a minute.

What’s the fastest firing gun?

According to the Guinness World Records, the machine gun in service with the highest rate of fire is the M134 Minigun. Designed in 1960s, this weapon spat fury from helicopters and armored vehicles. This 7.62mm calibre gun fired at a super fast pace of 6,000 rounds per minute i.e. 100 rounds per second.

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