New End Friday On Belgium’S Florennes Air Forcefulness Base, A Maintenance Tech Accidentally Fired The Vulcan 20Mm Gun On The F-16 Jet He Was Working, Destroying Around Other F-16

The F-16 that was struck past times the large bullets speedily caught burn downwardly as well as exploded, since it was loaded amongst fuel as well as beingness readied for an afternoon flight

The accident is quite weird: it’s non clear why the technician was working on an armed aircraft that about the flying line. Not fifty-fifty the type of inspection or run has been unveiled. For certain it must convey been a cheque that activated the gun fifty-fifty though the aircraft was on the ground: the usage of the onboard weapons (including the gun) is ordinarily blocked past times a fail-safe switch when the aircraft has the gear downwardly amongst the usage of preventing like accidents.

at 6600 rounds per minute... it's a expert bet to state a hundred or to a greater extent than were fired. 110 per second.
This isn't the gun inward the A10 Thunderbolt/Warthog, that i is an Avenger xxx mm 3900 rpm gun

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/technician-accidentally-fires-vulcan-cannon-and-destroys-f-16-ground-belgium-33476

https://theaviationist.com/2018/10/14/f-16-completely-destroyed-by-another-f-16-after-mechanic-accidentally-fires-cannon-on-the-ground-in-belgium/

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