Combat Damage Assessment Team, A-10/GAU-8 Low Angle Firings versus Simulated Soviet Tank Company (15 June 1978).

Abstract

This report, the first in a two volume set, describes firings of the A-10/GAU-8 weapon system on 15 June 1978, against a Soviet tank company simulated by ten combat loaded M-47 tanks. The pilots making the firing passes attacked at low altitude and corresponding low dive angles simulating movement through a hostile air defense system. Ammunition used in the attacks comprised 30mm armor piercing incendiary rounds, which proved to be effective damage agents against substantial areas of the U.S. M-47 tanks used as targets. The pilots in 23 firing passes achieved 347 impacts on the ten target tanks. The impacts included 50 perforations of the armored envelopes and resulted in damage comprising six tanks catastrophically killed, three tanks incapable of fire and movement, and one tank with degraded mobility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA076138

Entities

People

  • J. E. Clemens
  • R. R. Mceachin
  • Russel H. S. Stolfi

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Ammunition
  • Birds
  • Combat Simulations
  • Defense Systems
  • Low Altitude
  • Low Angles
  • Projectiles
  • Simulations
  • Slant Range
  • Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Military Science
  • ballistics.