HOW BIG ARE THE GUNS ON AMERICA’S FIGHTER JETS? BIG.
Alex Hollings | August 15, 2022
Although guns haven’t been a focus in air combat for decades, American jets can still sling lead with the very best of them. But unless you’ve got first-hand experience with the massive cannons stuffed into the fuselages of aircraft like the F-15, F-16, or the A-10 Warthog, you’ll probably be downright shocked at just how big the rounds that their guns fire actually are.
In the video above, we compare the 9mm rounds fired by American service pistols like the M17 and M18 to the NATO 5.56 rounds fired by service rifles like the M16 and M4, before moving up to the big dogs like the .50 caliber rounds fired by the M2 machine gun.
But it only gets crazier from there. Next, we compared those rounds to bullets fired by the guns in America’s jets. First up is the 20mm round fired by the M61 Vulcan series of guns leveraged by a number of American fighters, including the F-15, F-16, F/A-18, and F-22.
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