Combat damage assessment team
Subtitle: A-10/GAU-8 low angle firings versus simulated Soviet tank company (array 22) (LAVP lot number AJD 79A181-001, Aerojet) (7 November 1979)
By: R.H.S. Stolfi, R.R. McEachin ; prepared for A-10 System Program Office
Contributors: McEachin, R. R.; United States. Air Force. A-10 System Program Office; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: United States; Weapons systems; Ammunition; United States. Marine Corps; Aerial gunnery; Testing; Tanks (Military science); A-10 (Jet attack plane)
Other titles: A-10/GAU-8 low angle firings versus simulated Soviet tank company (array 22) (LAVP lot number AJD 79A181-001, Aerojet) (7 November 1979)
Description: This report describes firings of the A-10/GAU-9 weapon system on 7 November 1979 against a Soviet tank company simulated by 10 combat loaded M-47 tanks.  The pilot making the firing pass attacked at low altitude and used correspondingly low dive angles in order to simulate movement through a hostile air defense system.  Ammunition used in the attacks comprised Aerojet Lot Number AJD 79A181-001 30mm armor piercing incendiary (API) rounds, which proved to be effective damage agents against substantial areas of the U.S. MK 47 tanks used as targets.  The pilot in ten successful firing passes fired a total of 174 rounds of which 90 impacted the targets.  Of the projectiles impacting on targets 30 achieved perforations of the armored envelope.  Significant results include catastrophic damage to 3 tanks, 1 tank immobilized and silenced, three tanks immobilized only. (Author)
Notes: Cover title.

"Prepared for: A-10 System Program Office, Wright patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433" -- Cover.

"NPS-56-80-008."

"June 1980."

Typescript.

"Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited."

Technical report; 1980.