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A parked F-16’s gunfire turned routine maintenance into total loss

An F-16 on the ground can still destroy another F-16 not with a bomb or a missile, but with its own internal cannon when ...
아시아경제

Next 30mm Wheeled Anti-Aircraft Gun is

[Monthly Defense Times Editor-in-Chief An Seung-beom] The 30mm wheeled anti-aircraft gun is a next-generation low-altitude air defense weapon system introduced to the Army since the mid-1970s to ...
Task & Purpose

Technician Accidentally Fires Vulcan Cannon And Destroys An F-16 On The Ground In Belgium

A maintenance worker accidentally fired a 20mm Vulcan cannon from an F-16 jet he was working on at Belgium’s Florennes Air Force Base earlier this week, destroying another F-16 while damaging another ...
Shephard Media

FMS F-16 operators to receive Vulcan cannon

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) has received an $88.27 million IDIQ sole-source contract from the USAF to provide M61A1 Vulcan 20mm rotary cannon for F-16s, including aircraft ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Aircraft Carrier Cannon Fires 4,500 Rounds a Minute

The Sea Wiz is the affectionate nickname given to a 20mm Vulcan Cannon on board the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier. It fires 4,500 rounds a minute, can hit a target five miles away and has ...