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Last Friday on Belgium’s Florennes Air Force Base, a maintenance tech accidentally fired the Vulcan 20mm gun on the F-16 jet he was working, destroying another F-16
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Last Friday on Belgium’s Florennes Air Force Base, a maintenance tech accidentally fired the Vulcan 20mm gun on the F-16 jet he was working, destroying another F-16
Ooops! Did I do that? (Erkl)
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Old 10-15-2018, 08:48 PM
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The Vulcan 20mm cannon fires 6600 rounds per minute... it's a good bet to say a hundred or more were fired. 110 per second.

Both the Vulcan 20mm cannon and the Avenger 30mm cannon (3900 rounds/minute - used on the A10 Warthog) were developed by General Electric . . . "we bring good things to life."

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General Electric also made the F110 engine on that plane. I've welded many turbine compressor parts for those engines. Now I'm making tooling to make compressor parts for those engines.
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Nice car, but you would think that they could get that lower molding to line up better.
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Last Friday on Belgium’s Florennes Air Force Base, a maintenance tech accidentally fired the Vulcan 20mm gun on the F-16 jet he was working, destroying another F-16
So do they now put a kill sticker on the side of the F-16 that fired the shots? He did technically down another aircraft.
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