reason for that lies in its massive armor- shredding 30mm gatling gun that sprouts from its chin — the GAU-8-A Avenger cannon. But as legendary as that gun has become, much of the A-10’s early ...

of the A-10 Warthog's GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm autocannon laying the law ... s firepower in ridiculously exaggerated terms like “a cannon with wings” or “Chewbacca with chainsaw arms,” the ...

You can plainly see how the massive, 4,000 pound (including ammo), almost 20-foot long GAU-8 Avenger dwarfs the classic VW bug next to it. The firepower of that gun has become the stuff of legend ...