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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epsteinbd who wrote (6477)	10/7/2001 5:52:28 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

I have two degrees in engineering. Went for a Ph.D but during the late 1970s I was working at Fairchild. We made the A-10. General Electric Gun, the plane was built around the gun based on the failures of the F-111 (I think?) during VietNam. The lower part of the plane is protected against small arms fire from the ground and the cockpit is titanium to protect the pilot. The GE Gatling Gun fires Uranium-depleted 17 mm shells that are armor-piercing and is an anti-tank gun. The gun travels the length of the plane from nose to tail just to the left so the pilot has the gun just off his/her left heel. There is a governor on the trigger so the pilot can only shoot 17 shells at a time. We made about 220 of them. Stopped production around 1981.