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Wait isn’t the GAU13 the A-10’s gun
No but it’s similar
A10 uses gau8
What’s the difference? RoF? Ammo pool?
Yeah they get like 350 rnds per pod and less penetration
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So incredibly funny
P-51 still got it that old dog
More high-quality photos of the Piper PA-48.
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are we sure about this? those pods are massive with them being roughly half the lenght of the plane itself! the pods also weigh about 840ish kilos when loaded
Are you sure you don’t mean GAU-17/A gunpod? fitted with M134 miniguns those are a much more reasonable size and seem much more likely to be fitted on such a reasonably small aircraft
Other then that, i do like the plane!
EDIT: Welp guys, i managed to prove myself wrong and found a picture of the aircraft sporting 2 GPU-5 gunpods, absolute insanity!
Now i want the plane even more!
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No built-in guns? Still a +1
They are very similar if not identical to the 30mm gunpods found on aircraft such as the A-7’s. F-5E’s and US F-16A
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all of them use the GPU-5/A gunpod, the GAU-13/A is just the gun mounted in the gunpod.
insane that the mustang platform was seeing any modifications other than for raceplanes 40 years after the british first requested the design.
+1 as this thing is incredible
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Isn’t this too low? Even with two gunpods, usually turboprops have much higher top speeds.
That max level speed at MTOW I got from Jane’s 1984-85; there doesn’t seem to be other sources explicitly corroborating that number, though they do explain that top speed is fairly low due to the inefficient propellor (it was a cut down Skyraider propellor).
There’s also a separate VNE figure of 402 mph (647 km/h) which I forgot to include. This figure is repeated across several sources, but I find it odd as well since the Mustang airframe should be able to withstand much higher airspeeds (maybe it’s due to the propellor again?).
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I see, that does make sense.
I immediately thought it was weird because recently I saw the AT-6TH suggestion (Beechcraft AT-6TH Wolverine - Royal Thai Air Force's Werewolf) and with “just” 1600shp from its turboprop it’s doing up to 830kph. With 2400shp you’d definitely expect this one to at least be somewhere close, but I guess not.
huge wings optimised for payload rather than speed.
Pucara is similar era and role, not fast either
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Yeah but the Pucara’s huge.
so is this
