F-35 25mm cannon 180 round ammo load too low?

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:44:42 +0900, "Ragnar"
wrote:


Admittedly, you are no expert. Neither am I, but the question I have is:

How often is the gun used to strafe ground targets in the first place? If
the gun isn't used much, there isn't much point to wasting the space/weight,
is there?

Well, considering they're working on a 100KW laser for the plane,
if they get it to work, the gun will become obsolete.



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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:44:42 +0900, "Ragnar"
wrote:


Admittedly, you are no expert. Neither am I, but the question I have is:

How often is the gun used to strafe ground targets in the first place? If
the gun isn't used much, there isn't much point to wasting the space/weight,
is there?

Well, considering they're working on a 100KW laser for the plane,
if they get it to work, the gun will become obsolete.

If they get the laser to work, missiles will probably be obsolete, too.

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Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur

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In article , Eric Pinnell see
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:44:42 +0900, "Ragnar"
wrote:


Admittedly, you are no expert. Neither am I, but the question I have
is:

How often is the gun used to strafe ground targets in the first place?
If
the gun isn't used much, there isn't much point to wasting the
space/weight,
is there?

Well, considering they're working on a 100KW laser for the plane,
if they get it to work, the gun will become obsolete.

If they get the laser to work, missiles will probably be obsolete, too.

Down low, missiles will probably keep a significant range advantage
for a while.

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:38:23 -0700, (Harry
Andreas) wrote:

If they get the laser to work, missiles will probably be obsolete, too.

No. The laser loses power due to things like dust in the atmosphere,
etc. It would be a relatively short ranged weapon, useful for strafing
ground targets.
Mind you, a 100KW laser might be usable in anti-missile mode, which
could really mess things up for an attacker.


Eric Pinnell

(Author, "Steel Rain", "Claws of The Dragon", "The Omega File")

For a preview, see: http://www.ericpinnell.com/books/previews.shtml

Thanks for all the great info everyone.