The F-16s Gun Sounds Amazing

Yeah they mostly miss on the battlefield though😂

@@billpugh58 if you are shooting at an aircraft you only need a few shots to land

​@@billpugh58 we call that accuracy by volume

@@billpugh58 Bro the pilots are so untrained, they cant even fire a bullet and get every single one of them to directly hit an enemy like a sniper but in the air.

search "2000 rpm pistol"

At Osan AB in Korea one day, playing D&D at the Rec Center, one of the players said he was an A-10 Pilot. I countered with, "With all due respect, Sir, no you aren't. "You are a GAU-8 Pilot, that wears an aircraft body." "I stand corrected, Specialist." "Wrong again, Sir, you're sitting."

​​@@TimeSurfer206and did the entire crowd start applauding too?

Gun got wings 😅

Stole

I am the 666th like...antichrist confirmed! edit: aww, someone else liked the comment right after me and ruined it! 👿

More like "Brrrreeeeee" as the rounds run out and you just hear the electric motor spinning the barrel. :)

Honestly if this or its counterpart finds itself in a dog fight then they both already fucked up

If you hear them the bullets weren’t intended for you

if youre in an F16 and youre in a dogfight and have to use the M61 you have fucked up royally several times over

​@@PostAloneD If you somehow manage to run out of ammo without shooting down your opponent on top of that.... Then Bro you never belonged in that fighter to begin with.

Air defense missiles that are cheaper makes the bird go away. 😂 Remember the US has never faced an actual modern army with modern air defenses..

As it was meant to be.

Ol' reliable

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Minigun go weeeee

Got it, thanks 👍🏿

Money printer go DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA

And we all humans goes, faaart... 😂😂😂

Who is in the 1% 💀

I thought I read somewhere the other day that the last time a plane was lost due to plane-to-plane machine gun fire was in like 1992?

@@Vitamin_jp I'm kind of shocked it's that recent.

@@gamechip06heavily armoured attack airplane like the a-10 or su-25

@@Vitamin_jpyeah that’s cause dogfighting never happens anymore everything is long range attacks now, which kinda render short range machine guns useless

W refrence

W reference

yah but if I fight a capable country with a good air force my A-10 gets shot out of the sky...

​@@bigstuff52 Only 5 have been lost ever, it's not an air to air fighter, its a ground attack vehicle, a role in which performs like a surgeon's blade even the hardest terrorist fighters feared that noise in Iraq. It is a flying tank and not easy to knock out of the sky, one A10 in Iraq took a direct hit from a small shoulder fired SAM and still made it back to base.

​@@rustynailz178yeah I saw s documentary on how they want to retire the a10 for the f35 Even though it was introduced in the 70s that thing is still highly effective even in today's advanced world. And despite its age it's still cheaper to maintain than the f35. I don't think anything will ever beat that brrrrrt sound

To be clear this device pushes 21 pounds of metal and high explosives at you at a flow rate of 1800 feet per second every second that it stays on.

​@@ibelieveingaming3562and 3 football fields

​​@@ibelieveingaming3562 1800 feet? How many hands are these?

​@@ibelieveingaming3562for this, you have to calculate by switching the measurement system from Donuts-Per-Bald-Eagle to the all-sane and logical Metric system for a better understanding

​@@EarthIsFlat456I don't know, but it's about half the width of your mom.

There was a second of gun sound? 😂

@@jev2867pccchhhht BRRRRRRRRRRR!!

if he plays more than 1 second then the USAF will copyright strike his channel

@DionLewiis Sound copyright? He's got video clips.

​@@DionLewiis nah fool, you mean airstrike? 😂

sure

Bruh, 78 caliber is small 💀

If you compare it to a 105mm, then yeah "For Military Aircrafts" meaning that in the world of Fighter Jets and Gunships, *this is the smallest Caliber*

@@creeper4481 20mm. That’s still gonna cause a lot of damage to 99% of aircraft. It’s nothing like a 22LR in comparison lol…

thats dumb. 20mm is still a cannon, not a rifle. much bigger than 50 cal which is still anti aircraft material

who referenced a rifle?@@AdrianMartinez-wh4bp

Not really, their shockwaves from travelling faster than speed of sound can't damage anything.

@@Isaac-ho8gh fkn WAT?

​@@anthonylabrecque3396why you don't not understand proper good?

​@@Roddy556bloody fucken

​@@Isaac-ho8gh There's only ever been one supersonic gun kill in history from what I understand, generally guns aren't used at supersonic speeds, they're used at close range after the fur ball starts and everyone's maneuvering so much their energy and speed are down.

For real. That's freaking ridiculous. This is the kind of people that would diss 22.

Tbf he did say in comparison

@@khraix590820mm is not that much smaller than a 30mm

20mm is still a damn anti-material round, the weapons firing them are actually referred to as "cannons", because they're well over the threshold of even .50 BMG, which is where man portable arms and true heavy armaments diverge. Sure, there are .50 BMG rifles, and even 20mm shoulder fired anti-tank rifles, but that's right at the upper limit of what you can put to your shoulder and fire without it becoming unsafe for the operator.

20mm is nothing. Im 7 inches 😂 myself

That's crazy. Is that the best way to do it?

The recoil also pushes the craft so hard that it basically fights the engine and wins so they have to compensate when they fire

Were we stationed or in tech school together? June Oct 97 tech school

@@thenorstar8955 I went through tech school from August to December of 1998. I was stationed at Luke, Osan, Misawa, Kunsan, Lakenheath, Aviano, Kunsan again, and lastly Aviano (again).

@@geoffreybailey6350 Osan 01-02?

@@thenorstar8955 July 2000 - July 2001 36th FS

@@geoffreybailey6350 I got to the 36th Feb of 01. So that's probably where I know you from.

doesn't*

its not used against humans

Sure, just its collateral damage. ​@@ockerdebokx3369

@@ockerdebokx3369yeah but that shit would rip you up

20mm is not tiny 😮. Even if the A-10 Vulcan is 30mm. Miniguns use 7.62mm

The F16 basically has 5 short bursts... The F14 in Top Gun has unlimited ammo.

@mr.robinson1982 who care

If your too close for missiles you are too close for guns lol.

Yeah, sounds amazing. IF WE COULD HEAR IT!!

​@@Twitch380 not really. There are IR and radar missiles - short and long ranged ones. Nowadays there are IR missiles that can pull 40-60 Gs and hit the fast moving target 6 km away easily. Radar missiles are even more curse pulling less Gs (30 probably), but they have effective range of 140 km. The dogfights are really rare right now, but if they happen you can hit the target with 20mm shell 200-1200 meters away. All missiles that were designed as very short range, like SRAAM, were mostly failure because they had to be very light, had almost no fuel and hardly stabilized.

Cool childhood.

Gosh, lucky!

Hell yea!! Good for you! Badass

I heard it too doing some work at the Melrose Bombing Range in New Mexico. I started running. It scared the hell out of me.

And thats why the f-35 has no gun, (it has a gun pod attachment because of FUDS and Reformers) and new rifles don’t have bayonets. The only thing you should do if you find yourself having to use the gun on a fighter, or the bayonet on your rifle, is find the officers who put you in that situation and have some kind words with them.

@@purplepenguin43you have the bayonet on your rifle to use on your officers!

Too close for missles, I’m switching to guns

@@purplepenguin43 Still the F-35A intended for Air Force strategy and doctrines have built in Gatling cannon

Would an F-16 still occasionally do CAS gun runs, or is its gatling not really meant for that at all? Asking in case video game depictions of the F-16 are blatantly inaccurate

General Electric

*_TheRussianBager_*

“This is not a washing machine manual.”

"Wdym it says general electrics right there"

One makes things clean, the other dissapear

Maybe try a 20 round burst mode to conserve ammo and not run dry too soon?

No i member Top Gun when they were playing volleyball.

Yeah, Top Gun for kids😅

"CHAPPYYY"

@@kevind1980 but that was an F14 not 16 Silly GOOSE!

RIP Lous Gossett JR

Source is Russian Badger's A10 short. For those unaware.

gotta love the russian badger

I watched that video, too! 😂 lol

@@BenChristensen-um3ml based

If one of those is after you ... Your hamburger meat .

holy crap

The plane's onboard computer limits the gun to short bursts to preserve ammunition.

Id imagine its short half second bursts.

@@kevinforget549 My understanding is it fires in bursts of 20-50 rounds but I'm not certain about that.

big weekend warrior fan are ya? not a magazine and that's quite a bit of time

​@@whofookncares2149 ironic name

Armament Technician..., weapons. You we're weapons. 😉

Это не ты ли Боинг собираешь который постоянно падает? С пушками тоже так будет?

@@clydefreeman1067 yes

i must say, these f16s give lots of power

@@Vi3tKid420 yeah for sure! I got an incentive ride in one over S. Korea. Pulled 8.7 g's and still have my air sickness bags lol!

Worked on F-15Es, F-16s and F-22s. Had an incentive flight on the 15 and 16. Of my career, the F-16 was my favorite. It's an unbelievable aircraft, especially with the concurrent and recent CCIP modifications and updates on the new blocks.

Hard to believe the F16 is a 1970’s design…. It still looks very modern.

It's grown on me a lot. I was shocked to see in person how much smaller it is than an F-15 (and presumably F-14).

@@p99guy I agree

Since I was a kid, I see them regularly, in my area, never get tired of seing them fly by

I think what he means is that the F-16 fills more similar role to the F-4, and also that every fighter after the F-4 has learned the same lesson when it comes to having a cannon.

The F-4E fixed the problem of having no gun by 1967 by having a gun, the same M61 used up to the F-22. The claims of the short are false, pretty much in line with most of this AI generated trash. The newer jets were made to be better at a lot of things. However, the F-4 not having a gun wasn’t one of them, cause the Phantom had a great gun and was getting kills with it long before the 15 or 16 first flew.

The F-104 was the first to have a rotary cannon, soon followed by the F-100. Major mistake not including one for the F-4, they assumed missiles would’ve all they needed…. Wrong!

This is partially true but doesn't reflect what really happened. The F111 was supposed to be what the F15 became but didn't pan out as planned. Then studies to develop the F15 happened, experience in Vietnam showed a smaller and lighter craft with high thrust to weight would offer better performance and the pentagon realized the F15 program couldn't deliver enough fighters in number at low enough cost. So the F16 was a lighter and cheaper day fighter at first to supplement the heavier more expensive F15. Also the poor performance of missiles during Vietnam caused guns to be brought back into the basic designs.

​@garyeaton5719 lacking a gun was not as big of an issue as you think it was. The missiles worked, it was failure in other fields that made them ineffective. They had no way to identify what they were locking onto beyond visual range, which means that that Soviet jet bomber you just fired a radar guided missile at might actually be one of those new jet airliners that were becoming all the rage. That's why the F14 tomcat was equipped with TCS (Television Camera System), and later IRST (Infared Search and Track), the latter being a feture of all current fighter aircraft. The F4 could also carry a podded gun

CIWS tech here. That's my gun in your plane. I think that's an awesome use for it. On the CIWS we can run the gun with a pneumatic drive so the fire rate is 4500/min. but we can't get it to fly😂

Crazy how you guys are casually commenting on KZhead about a weapon on a multi million dollar craft that I fell in love with as a kid from watching top gun, and I get to comment along with…wth

@@ryanmartin4602more like our gun on your ship. Built for the AF back in the 50’s and still goin strong although through several modifications. The navy put longer barrels on it and it works well for y’all too.

Civi question! If it can only hold what seems to be a limited number of rounds, why make the fire rate so high as to “run out quicker” I’m not saying or thinking of a spray and pray and I get the other fighter will only be in front for a split second but if the rate of fire was slowed, the velocity should stay the same but you get more use from the weapon?? Also, is it more of like a side arm? “If you have to use them, you’re already fucked” mussels first type beat?

@@zachbogan4674when you only get a split second to hit something would you rather hit it 10 times or 50 times? In that split second you don’t want your target to live and be able to shoot back.

I noticed the guy using a hand tool to load the rounds. Do they ever allow the use of power tools for that part (likeduring actual wartime for instance)? Or it's it just to delicate/dangerous?

With that firerate all you felt must be just 0.25 seconds of a zrrt lmao

@@mdenizcoban The firing rate in the ground for the M61A1 is 7,200 rounds per minute so based on my calculations it was .00347 of a second.

@@tracewallace23 They do use a power tool once in a while but gun conveyors jam often so they have to be careful.

@@melendjam General Electric's website says 6000 rpm for its firerate though

That's it...

M61 walked so GAU-8 could run. Or more accurately, M61 “brrrt”ed so GAU-8 could “BRRRT”.

Too soon

"What do you mean IFF? You have Mk. 1 eyeballs with a 'binocular' attatchment!"

Ooooof

Nope. lost a good friend in that one!@@markzambelli

​@@chrishewitt4220Sorry to hear that. Blue on Green is a lesson we should have learned a century ago.

Can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find this comment.

Yes America getting ripped off as always

didnt they say it unloads full capacity in 5 seconds? You would really wanna be dead on target, seems like a mostly back up weapon

12 seconds? Where’d you get that from?

@@lennartjuhh tf2 meet the heavy reference

He said smaller cousin as in they’re both Gatling type guns. Don’t think he was saying the M61 was based on the GAU-8. Just that they’re in the same family of type of gun. Thanks for the fun fact though anyway.

as awesome as the gatling gun is, its like having a cd player in your 2024 tesla 🥹

That is the same as saying that the GAU-8 is the bigger version. Being a different version makes no inference of which came first. The opposite of being a smaller version, would be being a bigger version.

Blaine used the smaller cousin in predator.

I was the ammo handling system Project Engineer for both the F-15E and the F-16 at General Dynamics in Vermont. During acceptance testing, these things would really rip. So impressive. Hunters who illegally hunted at the firing range would hear the pre-fire alarm go off and would duck behind a tree. They were incredibly naive. 😅

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Yay all with USA tax Money

I call bullshit on that. There's no way such a mass-produced cartridge costs 2000$ per pop.

​@@user-bi7xd8ry5p Exactly. Even HEDP rounds aren't that much even accounting for fusing. Scale of manufacturing states that. The more you make of something the less each unit of that thing will cost. So yeah, bullshit.

wow

Oh come on bro why

​@@SirNobleIZH Lol

Bruh.

Fuckin King 🙌🏽

Lol!

Thanks for serving. Interesting information from your viewpoint as well.

You had to MANUALLY COUNT those rounds?!

@@baked_beans_779 I barely know how to use a BB gun lol

@@karnagefails333 I meant the aircraft but yeah

@@baked_beans_779 Shit, I'm sorry dude 🤣

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You’re already dead if you hear that noise

😂😂😂😂 damn this comment is pure gold man

If you heard it, either you weren't the target or you got very lucky.

The rounds are supersonic: they arrive on target before the sound they emit. You will get killed or see devastation around you before you hear that sound

Can get about 510 rounds in the drum, chutes and gun when installing rounds through. Depending on how the slack is whenever we reinstall a gun, sometimes you can get 511 in. That extra round when the gun is set to 3000/minute is an extra 20 milliseconds of fire time, lol.

Slow down hahaha

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They don't fire live rounds at airshows.

@@fernandorosales2418 you've never been to Axalp then. The bullet impacts targets less than 800mt from the crowd. They're non-trace training rounds, but still those are real bullets flying in the air and they sound exactly like this. Blanks are not a thing for the vulcan

@fernandorosales2418 they will do strafing runs in front of live audiences. They use TP or blue tip rounds. Really common. Actually.

​@@alpenfoxvideo7255 surely it's not less then 800 meters from the crowd, that is scary close and surely ricochets could be an issue. Would like to see video of this

It’s been General Dynamics for years. A lot of serious engineering went into system development and testing. The basic gun has remained essentially the same (M61A1/A2) but the creative ways the ammunition handling systems have morphed to fit space constraints is very impressive.

They’re on the 18’s too

Or the simpler version for those that don’t know what it looks like: R2D2 with a gatling gun that shoots down missiles and mortars.

Lifeline reference?

Привет от МиГ-29 или от Су-27?😂

The 16 is a very labor intensive aircraft, I can speak from personal experience.

@@bikeislife8405how many hours does it take to make one?

@@mohamedsaid9416 I've only maintained them, a gun system install can take up to 8 hours!

You are referring to the M167 VADS. honestly its probably worth re adopting for dealing with drones today.

Modern day dragons.

@@dominuslogik484We have; the C-RAM Centurion uses the same high-speed 20mm autocannon as the M167 attached to more capable fire control systems.

What 😂

@@kingdedede1066Look up metal gear solid Mainly the second Vulcan Raven fight

@@kingdedede1066it's a reference to Vulcan Raven from metal gear solid

@@solidsnake-er9ik thanks

Ah, just another day at the office, I see.

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USAF 2W1 here. Copypasta meme-ry aside, we reuse the spent brass and with TP rounds, a normal sortie is 50-150 rounds expended (Almost never seen a full drum of 510 used in testing). Given the material cost of repacking, it's 115-350 dollars per sortie. But we only fire live rounds in a TDY operation which is two to three times a year. During an entire Operation Redflag in Nellis, for two weeks, the total cost of gun repacking may get to your pay for a few months. It's one of the cheapest expenditures considering the other munitions we use during those TDYs. Chaff and Flare are the other cheap cost option, similar to the rounds.

@@janus3555 definitely cheaper than running a test on Aegis or Patriot systems with live fire lmao

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@@guppygb6078 god I hope that’s sarcasm.

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Now I'm imagining six gatling cannons mounted to a backplate with its own spinning motor

@@tothemaxx1991 omg yes, the gatling gatling gun

Rotary machine gun is more accurate. But we love the 1800s reference.

@@dannybryant6873 Rotary cannon

​@@tothemaxx1991the legendary, and thus far only theoretical "radial galling gun."

Got it; this is about aircraft but on a battleship the 20mm Oerlikons are pretty tiny upside the 40mm Bofors, 3" AA guns, 5" secondaries and 14" WWI or 16" WWII main guns.

Fires faster too in part because it's electrically fired and not percussion like the A-10. Also, M61A1 use hard brass vs aluminum for the GAU-8.

GAU-8 does not sound like a fart when you hear it in person. Sounds more like thunder.

not if you're helping on a CAS mission

well if you are following a slow cruise missile sometimes you can intercept without needing to use several hundred thousand dollar missiles to do what a few hundred bucks worth of ammo will do instead. also you might want that missile to deal with a jet rather than a largely defenseless cruise missile. *edit* or drone