The engineering involved in the feeding and storage of the empty casings is just as impressive as the gun itself .

Wow! I never knew an A-10 Warthog returns the spent shells back into the magazine drum, I always assumed a Warthog just makes it rain empty shells as it flies by.

It’s really impressive that they invented a gun that can fly.

for those wondering, the magazine can hold up to 1174 rounds (although it's typically loaded with 1150)

Well done. I still love the fact they bolted on a ground-attack aircraft to a gun.

Engineers:A gun with its own plane...

The GAU-8 "Avenger" Gatling gun and ammo drum (which size is comparable with VW "Beatle") are totally eco-friendly system. He carries empty shell casings with him. We will not mention sub-caliber depleted uranium penetrators.

I love the A-10 it’s a life saver it should never be taken out of service.

Its not the video we wanted, but the video we needed. In BRRRRRRRT we trust.

as you can see, the plane just disintegrated without its gun.

Ever since the invention of the GAU8 I've been head over heels in love with it she is one sweet baby girl!!! And when she talks any and all arguments are over!!!! That's what I like most of all about her no arguments!!!! All 7 barrels of (I don't care)!!!!!!!

Thanks for putting this together. Sometimes it's too easy to get caught up in the content, when it's something the viewer is interested in, and not to appreciate the effort that's gone into it. Many thanks for your work.

I love how at the start of the video the heat of the gun melts the plane, yet the gun remains airborne through sheer anger

“How it works Step 1: you push a button Step 2: you listen to the brrrt Step 3: you watch everything die”

That is an insane amount of small moving parts and small machine bolts and roller bearings! Like an insane amount and that's just the gun and drum. There's an aircraft bolted to that beast of a gun !!

Wow! I didn't realize it actually collects and stores the shell casings, that's pretty damned cool!

It would be best if you add the firing scene of the Real A10 Warthog at the end.

The guy who has to reload these magazine drums must have insane patience

WOw! Amazing 3D images!

Very impressed that someone had the forsite to not drop it’s spent rounds out the bottom. Not only could the family into the intake but could inadvertently fall on friendly ground troops. Very cool system.

It's amazing how they've managed to put a plane around that cannon!

Fun fact: the cannon fires when the round reaches the 9̶ 7 o'clock position, and that's why the cannon is shifted to the left (viewing from the front). This aligns the "recoil" force with the plane. (Thanks for the correction!)

Never knew the system took such a massive chunk of space in the aircraft, thank you

Amazing weapon. Thanks to the designers. Brilliant system!

Ah yes, the GAU-8 The only gun powerful enough to have its very own plane

A-10 🇺🇸: BRRRRRRTTTTTTTT.......... Su-25 🇷🇺: BRRRRRLLLYYYYYAAAAATTTT.....

It’s amazing that the barrels can cool down enough between rounds so as not to melt.

Drills death into anything it sees, cleans up its own brass and doesn't even slow down. That's a weapons system you RESPECT.

*BRRRRRRRRRT!*

I fell in love with her when she was born. I was stationed in Schwabish Gmund Germany in ‘85 with the 56th Field Artillery Command Pershing (nukes). We played war games and during the games there were A10’s that would fly around trying to find us. They would fly really low and slow. They are so beautiful and sound awesome. She is my favorite military aircraft of all time.

Everything working in concert. Pretty beautiful.

Excelente explicación visual del funcionamiento del cañón GAU-8

"Build me a gun.. Now figure out an aircraft for it." Beautiful/horrific cas machine.

Legends says: "if you hear the BRRRRRRRT, you were not the target... yet..."

When I was still working, ;(for a huge defense contractor) I was required to a run a large screw machine that produced the d.u. Projectile for the gau 8 round. I had to wear the radio active badge and everything. I was the only guy that could make sure it produced good parts for an entire shift

"So what's your job in the air force again?" "I ride a gun while there's a plane strapped to my back"

The amount of engineering that goes into making a machine go BRRRRRT is just astounding.

This really explains a lot. So the pilot is actually sitting on top of the BFG.

I'm currently in the process of disassembling the entire gun housing for my company. Such a beautiful and complex weapon. I feel lucky to have it in my hands.

This is so satisfying. I could watch a loop of the for hours.

Wow! Optimized mechanism is a kind of art!!

Fun fact: The GAU-8 generates more recoil force than one of the A-10's engines. The GAU-8 is so powerful that the A-10 needs 3 separate safety systems in place to safely fire the gun. First, due to the sheer amount of recoil generated, the weapon is electronically limited to firing in bursts. If this safety system wasn't in place, firing the weapon full-auto could potentially cause the aircraft to stall, even at full throttle. Secondly, a scoop with a built-in vacuum system is placed under the weapon to collect the exhaust gasses from the gun while in use. This is because when the weapon was being field tested, the engines would ingest the weapon's exhaust gasses and flame-out due to being starved of oxygen. The scoop reduces this to a more manageable level. And lastly, as a extra measure on the engines, the engines are wired into the GAU-8's fire control electronics. So when it's firing, the engines automatically spool up to full throttle and the engine starters go into "Continuous Ignition" mode where they will be constantly firing off. That way if the engines flame-out due to ingesting the exhaust gasses from the weapon, as soon as the weapon stops firing, the engines will immediately relight.

Awesome. Thanks for this animation. So cool that is saves the casings- nothing wasted!

"See the target over there?" "Yes" *BRRRTRRRRRT* "Not anymore"

Warthog is 100% the badassiest of badassiest planes that exist in today's world.

Thanks for the video! Perfect for my GAU 8 lore

"no! please! don't steal my bike! i-" 1:11

As killing machines go, it has to be one of the neatest killing machines ever invented.

I like how the gun doesn't throw the empty casings all over the place but instead just efficiently directs them back on to the spool. One long conveyor belt, live rounds in, empty casings back. Take the entire spool off and load a new one when done. Very nice.

I love this bird. And the animations looks amazing. Big thank you for it

Seems like its been safe and consistent for the pilot 🤞 I'm surprised that those huge bullets detonate so close to the pilot. They must really feel it.

I wonder what it looks like when they load the “drum magazine”

A gun so powerful, it actually slows down the plane while firing due to recoil... amazing

All the dramatic music and quick cuts between graphics were well done but I wanted to see a little more of the interworking of the cannon.

Well made animation, thanks. I always wondered why drum magazines like that aren't used on ground vehicles.

GAU-8 Avenger The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon that is typically mounted in the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. Designed specifically for the anti-tank role, the Avenger delivers very powerful rounds at a high rate of fire. Wikipedia Caliber: 30 mm Designer: General Electric Maximum firing range: Over 12,000 feet (3,660 m) Rate of fire: 3,900 rpm (variable) Barrel length: 90.5 in (2.30 m) Barrels: 7-barrel (progressive RH parabolic twist, 14 grooves) Variants: GAU-12 Equalizer, GAU-13

The spent casings get recycled back into the drum! Whoa, didn't know that honestly. Pretty cool!

Thanks for the tutorial!

Thanks a lot for this comprehensive video ! 🤙

Due to the excessive weight introduced by the GAU-8 and its ammunition to the nose of the A-10, the designers had to heavily skew the balance towards the tail to set the centre of gravity closer to the middle when loaded. However this also meant that if all the shells were expended and not kept, the weight in front would become drastically less than when it was loaded, shifting the centre of gravity further back, which is not desirable. Thus it is why the A-10 has to keep its empty 30mm cartridges so as to not shift the centre of gravity too far backwards.

This is my gun, there are many others like it but this one is mine. -The Plane that flys the gun probably.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

The best sound a grunt can hear.

Nicely done👌

Remarkable 3D modeling and animation work.

a10: *runs out of ammo, goes RTB* Pilot: "Someone change the ammo drums" *nobody moves* Army command: "ok, shortest straw wins"

I saw this gun fire at the GE test range in Burlington, Vermont back in the 80s. It's amazing the A-10 can fly with that much violence happening in it!

Great job. When you saw it outside the airframe (long-ago factory tour), the motion was so counterintuitive that it was disturbing

that is indeed how my GAU 8 works

I love the way they built the plane around the gun.

When you come off the trigger and the barrels are spooling down, does it just keep pushing unfired rounds back into the magazine, or is there some way for the round feeder to connect/ disconnect from the barrels?

A beautiful piece of engineering!

From a simple Bow and arrow to this- thousands of rounds fired per minute minigun, Humans really are something

AMAZING!

The BRRRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRRR is implied, but felt it in my heart.

Summary: Boolets go in, Boolets come out, Enemy is deleted

its amazing that the basic functional process of that gun is from the civil war. Dr Gatling was way ahead of his time with a rotary automatic weapon.

Absolutely gorgeous. I'm in love.

And from this excellent animation schematic I know understand why the CWIS has that big drum-tank looking shaped ammunition magazine.

This is amazing, one of my favorite planes ever!

Less than 20 seconds ago, I was knee deep into videos on video switching hardware. Now...I'm learning how the GAU-8 operates. Life is good.

Good job❤

A lot of freedom in that barrel!

Legend GAU-8 evenger : powerful weapons

If you keep making videos you'll hit a million subs in no time. Thank you for the quality, in depth look at the gun.

Fired it enough times and it never failed, can't complain

Thank you for sharing this video, i can make my own now🤣✌️

凄い‼️エンプティケースもドラムマガジンに回収するんだ‼️

I can finally make this at home.

That's a lot of freedom pee minute right there sir

Sick !!

UKposts recommendations keeping me entertained everytime

The ammo drum is mounted right behind the pilot, far forward of the wing mounting. Though you have to consider everything between a full and empty magazine when thinking about a plane's stability, the main reason it returns cartridges is not stability (though it helps), but preventing those empties from damaging the plane. Everything else is a bonus. I might be wrong in some particular case since so many planes use the M61 Vulcan, but planes using that gun also store the empty casings. I don't know if they reload the cartridges when the plane is fighting overseas. The logistical costs alone might make compacting the material and shipping it for recycling, or even just leaving it in a junkyard (doubt they do it with brass) far more worth it economically. And there's only so many times you can reload a cartridge. If the A-10 was carrier based, then storing the empties to go through the logistics of reloading them would cost nothing but the handing effort.

Its so beautiful.

Superb animation ! 👍

Gonna make a homemade one, thanks for the tutorial!

I always assumed that those empty shells were ejected. This is amazing

Excellent 👌

Nice to see they are ecologically sound and recycle the brass! :-) Gotta be green when you attack ground targets!

Most importantly, brrrrrrrrrt