POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Fire Power : Re: Fire Power Server Time
5 Sep 2024 17:17:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fire Power  
From: clipka
Date: 27 Jul 2009 14:40:00
Message: <web.4a6df39683da2730842b7b550@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   But same idea, I suppose. (Maybe the bullets from the GAU-8 travel even
> faster, giving even more the visual impression of a "laser".)

"Muzzle velocity [of the GAU-8] when firing Armor-Piercing Incendiary rounds is
3,250 feet per second (990 m/s), almost the same as the substantially lighter
M61 Vulcan's 20 mm round"

But the rounds might carry more of that "tracing stuff", so that the trail may
be brighter.


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