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I was referring to cannons on fighter aircraft. A gunship without a cannon is a fail.

It is possible that missiles may not live upto claims. Currently we know that cannons are in use and will be in use for the foreseeable future. I also know about cannon kills being real kills in dog fights, I have posted the same before. Did you know that during medieval times the knights...

Cannons are heavy and the ammo stores are large. Once missiles are expended the aircraft will run away. Cannons will be used very very rarely because of the high amount of risk involved. Even a top gun can lose his life to a rookie because of that.

Scoring cannon kills is extremely difficult. It is a last resort weapon because the chances of you getting killed is also very high. The American forces have comparatively many aircraft, so they can saturate the air with missiles. Other countries are not that lucky, so the need for a cannon...

Cannons are for situations where you have expended all your missiles and it is imperative for you to stay in the battlefield. Perhaps when others in your squadron have missiles left and you need to support them. Other than that cannons are a waste of space and weight.

Nothing great in this. Check specs for GAU-8/A on A-10 or even MKIs Gsh-301 cannons. Those bullets make the 20mm look like pellets. The LCH will have the French made M621 and is in the same class as the M197. Apache's M230, 30mm. With a guy next to it you can compare the size of the bullets...

We are yet to validate gunships in battle or exercises in large numbers. Only the US and Russia have large amounts of gunships in their arsenal. Once successful, we could see future increase in numbers as well as variants. We are yet to develop a medium helicopter. So once we have that we can...

GK. The LCH is not DRDO, it's HAL's project.

Liquid Cooling or even Vapour cooling will help reduce environmental challenges. This is used in many of the components in the F-22 and F-35. It reduces power consumption too. The downside is it increases weight.

Mi-35 is only in few numbers. We can have bulk orders for this one, in the tune of 200-300 between IA and IAF. We cannot have the cold start without a lot of Attack Helis. After 2017 IA will be ready for Cold Start with this baby.

Try shooting a teensy weensy target moving at 200kmph through bullet proof glass.

That was enlightening. :113: