Combat Damage Assessment Team, A-10/GAU-8 Special Report for Array Low Angle Firings Versus Simulated Soviet Firings of Tank Company (10 March 1978)

Autor:	Stolfi, R.H.S., Clemens, J.E., McEachin, R.R.
Přispěvatelé:	Naval Postgraduate School
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	1979
Předmět:	Main battle tank (MBT) Automatic cannon ammunition A-10 aircraft GAU-8 cannon Combat stowed targets Empirical testing Gun ammunition Lethality MBT vulnerability and survivability
Popis:	This report describes firings of the A-10/GAU-8 weapon system on 10 March 1978 against a Soviet tank company simulated by ten combat loaded M-47 tanks. The pilots attacked at low altitudes and dive angles simulating operations in hostile air defense environment. GAU-8 30mm Armor Piercing Incendiary Ammunition was fired achieving 253 impacts on the targets. The impacts included 43 perforations of the armored envelopes and inflicted damage totaling eight immobilized tanks four of which were catastrophically killed. A-10 System Program Office Wright-Patterson Air Poree Base
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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