The Second Amendment ACKNOWLEDGES our right to own and bear arms that are in common use that can be used for lawful purposes. The arms can be restricted ONLY if subject to historical analogue from the founding era or is dangerous (unsafe) AND unusual.
It's that simple.
Actually, the GAU-8 produces so much recoil that it completely cancels out one engine at full power, and if you could hold the trigger woud deplete the ammo supply in about 15-20 seconds. A second 7-barrel assembly you'd need a total redesign to make room... if you want redundancy I'd pull the GAU-8 and replace it with two GPU-5 Pave Claw barrel assemblies. (Pave Claw is a 4-barrel version meant to try to give an F-16 Hog punch, but the F-16's centerline station couldn't take the stress of recoil.) The CG doesn't change much because as rounds are fired the empty cases get sent back into the drum to be removed and reprocessed.
While we're at it, throw a Sidewinder rail on each wingtip so you don't have to block one of the outboard stations with a Dual Rail Adapter. SDB's plus APKWS-II pods and Hellfire quads mean you can rain ruin on lots of individual targets til the cows come home. Bonus, since the primary threat is IR-guided MANPADS, see if Northrop Grumman can miniaturize the NEMESIS laser countermeasure system to slap on.
Last edited by Diamondback; 06-19-21 at 19:12.
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I've had...A-10s, F-14s, F-18s, B-1s, B-52s, AV-8Bs...for CAS. A-10s better than most for sure.
Here's what I want: slow, loitering, metric crap-ton of armament.
You mighta loved the "Arsenal BUFF" component of a refit proposal an old prof and I put together... imagine a B-52 with its bay packed full of SDB's, and Hellfires and APKWS-II hung everywhere they can safely fit and launch from (even converting the tiptanks into weapons pods). SDB's dropped from a BUFF at altitude can hit anything within 40 miles. Getting a stiffy yet?
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>YOU IDIOTS! I WROTE 1984 AS A WARNING, NOT A HOW-TO MANUAL!--Orwell's ghost
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All of SOCOM's compose aircraft are very reminiscent of the A1. That was the one thing I always wanted, something that could go low and slow and hang around for a long time. Some of the other aircraft become and drop two, three, maybe four bombs and then they would either be Winchester or bingo.
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Last edited by WillBrink; 06-19-21 at 21:02.
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