Did you know this before your show last night?
Didn't they originally use that on Cobras and Apaches?
It looks familiar.
No, cobras and apaches use a 300mm Vulcan.
30mm*
Lol 300mm cannon on an attack chopper???? Yes please!
Lmao.
I'm pretty sure that'd interfere with the flight.
How to do a flip in a helicopter.
I’m pretty sure that is 4 inches shy of the main deck guns on Mighty Mo!
Not to mention I presume a lot of helicopters would just start falling apart after shooting it.
@Maw no problem, you just have the gun counteract the rotor
Lol use them to turn the rotor...
The concussive force of it would likely tear the rotors.
Oops I'm in the wrong room I think..sorry
Let’s be honest, the recoil from that would probably sheer the fuselage in two.
That too.
Would have to be a free floating system.
And even then.
It would likely blow out the glass in any current cockpit. I'm pretty sure they don't use bulletproof glass. It might be more resistant to concussive forces, but we're talking about basically a C4 charge at the tip of the barrel.
It's 120mm cannons on the AC-130 yea?
Like akin to the Abrams main gun.
Abrams main gun, is a smooth bore cannon. The howitzers on on the specter I’m not sure are similar in build but there is 1 120mm gun I believe.
I’m sorry, the AC130 I believe actually only has 105mm guns
Could be due to their proximity to the propellers/engines.
That's a lot of concussive force.
I think the reason they don’t put the 120mm cannon on them is because it is too heavy.
@{CAP}Radeon, you just advanced to level 4!
It's already a flying boat.
with a 105 its more like a flying Leopard
Kinda, boats in general have stupid amounts of weapon systems.
Even the smaller ones.
Lol sea based vessels have far higher capacity for weapon systems.
Its a very american design. Probably the most american plane there is.
designed in texas.
Yepper.
It's due to the limitations.
"yall, think about this? We take a tank gun and mount it sideways in a transport plane!"
The most American plane is arguably the A-10 though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM
It's a plane literally designed around the biggest gun they could find at the time.
