Nice shooting warthog !

[tourrider]

This video was taken from inside the cockpit of an A-10 by the pilot.

It was a night view. What you see is from 9700 feet away (almost two miles).

Four terrorists are walking along a street with no clue that someone is watching them........ from almost 2 miles away.



The A-10 fired a 30 mm cannon WITHOUT injuring the dog nearby who escaped unharmed.

You can see the gun camera shake a bit as the pilot fires;
then count about 4 seconds for the rounds to travel 2 miles. Every tenth round is a tracer, so the bullets you actually see are every tenth; they are getting hit with hundreds of rounds, but the dog is
unscathed.



Muzzle velocity on the 30mm cannon is 2430 feet per second.
The result is that four fewer guys won't be blowing up women and children anymore!


The dog, in the upper right, just safely gets the hell out of there.



http://www.bluehound.net/sack-o-stuff/USAFAtWork.wmv

[Curmudgeon]

meh... that'll buff out.

[ScaredOnce]

Awesome vid, thanks!

But, it doesn't really seem to be from an A-10 Thunderbolt II's 30mm. The rate of fire is way way too slow (notice the readout in the display). Also, due to the tracking of the video and rate of fire, I'd guess this is from the 40mm weapon of an AC-130 gunship...

Still very cool!

Thanks!

[GoldWinger]

Interesting entertainment and we complain about the beheadings being shown on TV.

[ScaredOnce]

Interesting entertainment and we complain about the beheadings being shown on TV.

I believe that your take is food for thought; yet, I contest that this is much different in context.

[son of the revolution]

Definetly NOT an A10 Firing . If you watch the round counter , the aircraft fires two twenty round bursts . The rate of fire on the 30 mm Vulcan would have resulted in a helluva lot more then 20 rounds being sent down range per burst . Like someone else said , my money's on a 20mm on an AC130 Gun Specter . Still a cool video , always liked watching gun camera footage .

[MuzzleFlash]

Four terrorists are walking along a street with no clue that someone is watching them........ from almost 2 miles away.

Sounds like the start of a joke. "Four terrorists are walking down the street one daBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM.. nevermind."

[GoldWinger]

How do we know that they were terrorists? We only have the government's word for it and most of us here have little implicit trust in the government.

[Bender]

tha was deffinitly a apache's chain gun 30mm but shoots slow

[son of the revolution]

How do we know that they were terrorists? We only have the government's word for it and most of us here have little implicit trust in the government.

Somehow I have this strange feeeling that even as bad as the MSM is , we somehow would have heard about it if the Govt had fired up 4 yokels walking down the lane in Paducah