Is it possible to fire 110mm rounds from rotary cannon?

Question

Is it possible to fire 110mm rounds from a rotary gun(mini gun)? Also fire it from a fighter craft and be effective against other aircraft or air to ground combat.

Also could it be possible to put a 120mm vertical cannon on a fighter craft. And some question as above

120mm cannon, I mean a regular cannon or single barrel not a rotary cannon

Please don't mind the part when i said 120mm vertical cannon that is incorrect. The question should say simple 120mm cannon

Answer 1

I suppose it would be possible to design such a gun, but it doesn't seem like it would be a very mobile or practical weapon to have, given the size that it would have to be. Having a large caibre weapon on fighter planes would also be impractical, when you consider the weight and size of the gun, and the ammunition, also there would have to be some sort of loading device for the gun, which would be fairly large too.

Answer 2

Rotary Cannon

Answer 3

A 110 mm ROTARY cannon? N.O, A single-shot is doable. look at the "Spookys", the C-130 gunships. The recoil of the 30mm rotary gun is enough to severely decelerate the A-10, so think of how the recoil of 110mm shells fired that way would affect an aircraft. 120mm gun on a fighter craft? Why? fighters don't NEED a 120mm cannon, what in blue blazes are you thinking of shooting at? Fighters engage with missles and 20mm rotary cannons. Against an airframe, that is more than sufficient. A 120mm gun is what the Abrams tank carries, now think about WHY it takes a tank to carry it. To remove a possible point of confusion, there are 25.4 milimeters to the inch, so divide that 110 to 120 mm gun you're thinking of, and you see how wide tha barrel is.

Answer 4

HOLY SMOKE??? A 110-mm gatling gun???? Yow -- talk about some serious firepower!! DAY-amn!!!

Theoretically, you **could** make a Gatling/Vulcan/rotary - type multiple barreled cannon of 110 mm, but it would be a huge honker of a machine -- so big that it would require an immense fixed-wing aircraft to lift it (and all the ammo it would require) off the ground (I don't believe any rotary wing could generate enough lift to pick that sucker up!). And the recoil from that would bring a fixed-wing aircraft to a dead stop in mid-air! This idea is more likely a rail-mounted or ship-mounted weapon system.

But I'm fairly certain you could mount a single 120-mm cannon/howitzer on a large fixed-wing cargo aircraft. There are tales from the Vietnam war of variant "Puff the Magic Dragon" aircraft that had 7.62 miniguns pointed out one side of the bird, and a 105-mm howitzer pointed out the drop tail hatch. I never *personally* saw one . . . but going from a 105 to a 120 shouldn't be that big a deal.

Answer 5

Yes you could, but the aircraft would be as big as a C-5 or a 747. It would be very hard to maneuver and would be easily shot down by more nimble fighters. An M1A1 tank has a 120mm cannon, and its turret weighs over 20 tons. It would be a lot of weight. Something like that would be better suited mounted to a ship.

Answer 6

Possible, yes in theory, though there is NO such GAU that I know of.

Think about it though... an A-10 with the largest flying GAU (GAU-8 Avenger in 30mm) carries only 1174 rounds of ammunition and fires at 3900 rpm (rounds per minute). That means you get JUST about 20 seconds of shooting.

Now, IF you just took into account the ammo (Not the Gun), you'd either end up with 6 seconds of shooting, or need an aircraft than can carry 3 times the weight of ammo.

Answer 7

ac-130 spectre gunships are armed with 105mm howitzers, but those are definately not rotary cannons. what you're suggesting is theoritically possible, but would never under any circumstances be practical.

Answer 8

we all need more cannons,
not guns, cannons!