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piggybacking due to tinkerbell leaving out the real ng.
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It almost sounds like the 30mm Caseless Pods that can be mounted
under Fighters making even an A-4 into a tank killer. That
died
when the A-7 did. Too bad. The A-7E was a superior AC to the
A-10
when armed with the 30mm caseless chain gun. To upgrade the A-7
to
an AC with the F/A-18 perfomance would have cost appr. 3.5
million
per copy. versus how much for an A-10 that requires constant
TopCap? Another Congressional Boondoggle.



Anyone know what he is talking about ?
I've not heard of any system like this before.

I'm guessing he's takling about a couple two things.

First is the GPU-5 (aka Pave Claw) gun pod, which holds a
four-barrel
version of the GAU-8 called GAU-13. (Definitely neither caseless
nor a
chain gun, though). It was supposed to give conventional fighters
almost
the
same gun power as the A-10. But it really didn't work very well.
The
New
York Air Natioanl Guard had one F-16 unit that went to the Gulf with
the
GPU-5 in 1991 (the "Boys from Syracuse"/174th Fighter Wing). They
took
the
pods off the planes early in the proceedings and never flew them
again.

This was a new gun that never went into production. It was supposed to
be
for the A-7D for the Air Force. But the acceptance of the A-10 stopped
all
research into it. It was caseless. Good idea that never reached
production.


You're statement implied they existed and were used.

Still trolling and misinterpreting any way that makes you look good. They
never went into production as the mission for the A-7 was never realized.
The same reasoning was used as to why no money is being spent on upgrading
the A-10. Don't dump good money into bad.



Do you remember saying this ??

==
It almost sounds like the 30mm Caseless Pods that can be mounted
under Fighters making even an A-4 into a tank killer. That died
when the A-7 did
===

Seems you were saying they were built....




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