M48 GAU-8 Avenger

* Default
* Warmaster
* Vanguard
* Solar Serpent

## Crew

* Commander
* Driver
* Gunner

The **M48 GAU-8 Avenger** is a Tier 10 progression tank destroyer under Oscar Faraday's dealership.

## History

Class: Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun (Concept)

Developed: 1977-1978

Service: N/A

Vehicles Built: N/A

Operators: N/A

This is a prototype of a self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle built on an M48A5 chassis and armed with the seven-barreled GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon, known from the A-10 Warthog. The vehicle was designed by General Electric for a program called Division Air Defense (DIVAD). The DIVAD program was launched in the 1970s to provide U.S. armored forces with mobile anti-aircraft firepower after the disappointing results of the MIM-46 Mauler project from the 1960s. The M163 Vulcan and Chaparral AAGM combination proved to be equally unsuccessful with the onset of Soviet helicopters, which was why the Americans returned to the concept of gunned vehicles.

Even amongst the odd DIVAD proposals, General Electric's concept was odd with the massive Avenger gun installed in a very lightly armored turret. Unsurprisingly, General Electric did not win the contest; that "honor" fell to General Dynamics and, more importantly, Ford with its XM247 Sergeant York. As a result, the M48 GAU-8 was never built and remained on paper only.

## Vehicle Traits

* Gatling Gun: This vehicle is armed with a multi-barreled rotary cannon with an extremely high rate of fire, which is, however, prone to overheating.

## Ammunition

* **Accuracy (Fully Aimed)**: 0.12 °
* **Magazine Type**: Overheat
* **Shots Before Overheat**: 83
* **Cooldown Time**: 14.93 s
* **Burst Fire Rate**: 21,000 rd/min
* **Damage Randomization**: ± 5 %
* **Penetration Randomization**: ± 5 %
* **Bonus Module Damage**: 30 %
* **Ricochet Angle**: 67 °

## Upgrades

### Armor

M48 Stock Armor
 The vehicle's light armor offers basic protection from autocannon and machineguns.

Weight Reduction Measures
 Increases the acceleration rate by 15% and maximum speed by 20%. It also reduces maximum hit points by 200.

### Weapon

**Stats:**

* **Magazine Type**: Overheat
* **Depression/Elevation**: -10.0° / 36.0°

### Engine

 Continental AVSI-1790-6 950 hp Diesel Engine

## Abilities

**Description:**Allows you to switch between different firing modes.

**Description:**Increases your vision range and the ability to spot enemies hiding behind foliage (bushes, canopies) at the cost of your own camouflage factor. In other words, activating this ability makes you easier to spot.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ 190mm at 150m; 143mm at 700m

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