The A-10 Warthog, an infantryman's best friend.

[gridlore]

U.S. Army Paratroopers from 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, "The Rock", 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, call in an A-10 Warthog to engage Insurgent position with 30mm gatling gun in Korengal valley, Afghanistan. Additional info: "The distance was no more than 500 meters and this is after we had just gotten attacked from multiple positions, this being only one of them, and in a village we visited frequently and were shot at on the way in and on the way out just about every fucking time and in a place where we took contact on a daily basis, some from far some from close."

Sweet.

Comments

[kengr]

Have you ever *seen* a 30mm round? I have an empty *20mm* casing. You can almost drop an entire .50BMG *cartridge* into it.

Gatlings like the one the A-10 has can reduce a concrete bunker to rubble if they fire at it for a bit.

Non-explosive rounds are around 10 *ounces*. That's the part that's hitting the target. Explosive rounds are a bit lighter. But make up for it by exploding.

And a "burst" like we saw in that video was *hundreds* of rounds.