Talk:GAU-12 Equalizer

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Contents 1 Cartridge storage 2 F35 gun 3 RoF vs Ammo load? 4 Picture

[edit] Cartridge storage

What is to be gained by having the system return the empty cartridges to be stored? --Hooperbloob 22:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

This prevents any danger of the ejected cartridge cases striking the airframe and causing damage.

[edit] F35 gun

My understanding was that the gun for the F35 was a variant of the Mauser 27mm which was being modified by Boeing. I had heard that the GUA-12 was being looked at but the 27mm was the favoured solution technically. Possible that a political decision on buy American has been made though since the last information I received. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 149.8.248.2 (talk • contribs).

Hogwash. As you can see, the GAU-12 and the M-51 are both based upon a Norwegian design. Let's not go painting an entire country a bunch of nationalist fascists. At least not without a source. ... aa:talk 01:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

"Hogwash. As you can see, the GAU-12 and the M-51 are both based upon a Norwegian design. Let's not go painting an entire country a bunch of nationalist fascists. At least not without a source. ... aa:talk 01:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)"

Wow, aggressive response indeed! I am sorry but this is wrong, the multi purpose ammo that is being used is based on a Norwegian design, not the guns. My comment was that politically Americans like to buy American products from American companies, nothing wrong with that and it is good business to keep skills and useful product lines inhouse so to speak, something the UK could do with emulating sometimes. Did you actually read my post properly or were you just goading for a fight aa:talk? If you come back to view this sometime and apology would be nice as I was doing anything but criticising the US. Boeing was the company heavily pushing a solution based on the Mauser 27mm and had an excellent engineered solution for both their aircraft and the F35 but with them losing looks like the 27mm round went down with them regardless of it's faster response time, longer range and greater kill power. Still, going 25mm is a big improvement of sticking with the old 20mm round.

[edit] RoF vs Ammo load?

Why the huge rate of fire and tiny, tiny ammo loadout? 180 bullets on a $20m fighter? Wtheck?

The U-model gunship can hold 2,000 rounds so it's used more as an area supression weapon in that role. Following the FAS link you'll read it also has applications for ground anti-aircraft weapon systems which are less limimted to thee number of rounds it can carry. Additionally the high rate of fire allows you to use several types of ammunition in the aircraft simultaniously, so you can pack armor piercing, incendiary and high explosive rounds to suit all applications, rather than a 30mm cannon with a lower rate of fire. St Aidan 22:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

How about a picture? I have no idea how this weapon looks like, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. -- xompanthy 19:42, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I've added a picture. You can find a lot of information about various weapons systems by using the flag "-site:mil" and "-site:.gov" in Google. A cheat sheet for all the available operators is here. ... aa:talk 01:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)