The United States Air Force A-10 was designed as a Close Air Support aircraft, built around a potent armor-destroying 30 mm rotating barrel cannon known as the Avenger. Known as the A-10 ‘Thunderbolt ...
Few aircraft were as purpose-built as the A-10, a machine literally designed around the GAU-8 Avenger — a seven-barrel Gatling gun capable of firing more than 4,000 rounds per minute. Seeing the ...