Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Soviet Gun That Kept Destroying Its Own Aircraft | The MiG-27 and GSh-6-30 story" video.

  1.  @mitri5389  The data doesn't support what you say, in fact it supports what I said. The USAF only started to try to retire the A-10 when it was meant to be retired, in the 1990s. The reason the A-10 is barely used is because it makes up a very small portion of the fleet, each deployment overseas doesn't actually involve that many aircraft staying in country. They're old aircraft that need spare parts that are difficult to obtain and expensive to contract out if you have new ones made. It takes up resources necessary to maintain more modern aircraft.
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  2. The USAF had the A-10 designed for them. They purchased 700 of them and the GAO actually criticized them for buying too many. The claim that the USAF hated the A-10 is a lie.
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  3.  @MrMorvana  One important consideration is that the cannon is a scalpel. The big advantage of the cannon isn't just the number of bursts - because short volleys of rockets can accomplish the same effect when carrying multiple pods - but the fact that depending on the payload a bomb can have hundreds of meters of a danger radius around them. The danger circle around the impact point of the GAU-8 is around 30-50 meters. Regarding the A-10s payload, the thrust limits really put the A-10 in a situation where it doesn't fly with full payloads unless strictly necessary. Footage of them flying out of Bagram shows two bombs, one rocket pod and one Maverick.
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  4.  @discipleofdagon8195  Right. Danger close with a bomb is 300 meters. Danger close with the cannon is 30 meters. Even though the rotary cannons have dispersion, the small payload of each round means the damage is contained where the gun actually hits. Meanwhile bomb fragments have that pesky tendency of not being effective enough on the enemy and too effective on friendlies who thought they were outside the frag radius.
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  5.  @bfure1  Actually it's 80% of the rounds land within a 12 meters of the aim point from 4000 feet of slant range. That's more accurate than the Vulcan.
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