List of aircraft weapons

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This is an incomplete list of aircraft weapons, past and present.

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Air-dropped bombs

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The Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN is a 30 mm cannon used on many military aircraft, particularly those of the British RAF and FAA.

Development

The ADEN (named for the Armament Development Establishment, where it was designed, and Enfield, where it is produced) was
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The 20 mm Becker was a German automatic cannon developed for aircraft use during World War I. It was first mass produced in 1916 and was installed in a variety of aircraft; the only German autocannon to actually see service in the air during the war.
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The Berezin B-20 (Березин Б-20) was a 20 mm caliber autocannon used by Soviet aircraft in World War II.

Development

B-20 was created by M.E. Berezin in 1944 by chambering his Berezin UB 12.
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Berezin UB (Березин УБ - Универсальный Березина, Universalni Berezina, Berezin Universal) was a 12.
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Breda-SAFAT was a series of machine guns used on Italian aircraft during World War II. The machine gun came in 7.7 mm (0.303 in) and 12.7 mm (0.50 in) variants. The 7.7 mm variant was similar to the M1919 Browning machine gun and could use some types of .303 British ammunition.
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Browning M1919 was a .30 caliber light machine gun family widely used during the 20th century. It was used as a light infantry, coaxial, mounted, aircraft, and anti-aircraft machine gun by the U.S.
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The Colt-Browning Mk 12 was a 20 mm cannon widely used by the US Navy after World War II.

Development

The Mk 12 was an advanced derivative of the wartime Hispano HS 404 that had been used on a variety of American and British fighter aircraft during World War Two.
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GIAT DEFA 550 is a series of very widely used French aircraft guns.

The initial DEFA 551 was developed in the late 1940s. It was based on the German Mauser MG 213C, an experimental revolver cannon developed for the Luftwaffe.
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The Ford-Philco GAU-7/A was an abortive program initiated by United States Air Force in the late 1960s to develop a new cannon to replace the M61 Vulcan on the then-upcoming McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle.
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The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm, hydraulically-driven seven-barrel Gatling-type rotary cannon that is mounted on the United States Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt II. It is the largest, heaviest and most powerful aircraft cannon in the United States military.
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General Electric GAU-12/U Equalizer is a five-barrel 25 mm Gatling gun-style rotary cannon. The GAU-12/U is used by the United States, the UK, and several other NATO nations, which mount the weapon in their fighter jets (e.g., the Harrier), airborne gunships (e.g.
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GIAT 30 is a series of 30mm cannon developed to replace the DEFA 550 series weapons on French military aircraft.

Introduced in the late 1980s, the GIAT 30 is a revolver cannon with electric ignition and automatic recocking.
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The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 (ГШ-23) is a twin-barreled 23 mm autocannon developed by the Soviet Union, primarily for military aircraft use. It entered service in 1965, replacing the earlier Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannon.
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The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23 (also known by its Russian service designation, 9-A-768) is a powerful, fast-firing six-barreled Gatling gun used by some modern Soviet/Russian military aircraft.
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Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 is a Russian 30mm cannon used by Soviet and later CIS military aircraft.

The GSh-6-30, designed in the early 1970s and entering service in 1975, is a six-barrelled Gatling gun similar in design to the Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23.
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The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1 (also known by the service designation 9A-4071K) is a 30 mm cannon designed for use on Soviet and later Russian military aircraft, entering service in the early 1980s. Its current manufacturer is the Russian company Izhmash JSC.
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The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2 (ГШ-30-2) or GSh-2-30 is a powerful twin-barrel autocannon used on certain Russian military aircraft.

It is not related to the Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1, but is heavy-duty, gas-operated weapon, probably operating on the
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The Shipunov 2A42 is a Soviet/Russian 30 mm automatic cannon. It is built by the Tulamashzavod Joint Stock Company.

Platforms

The autocannon has been used since the 1980s on the following platforms:

Infantry Fighting Vehicles

  • BMP-2
  • BMD-2
  • BMD-3

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HS.404 20 mm autocannon was one of the most widely used aircraft weapons of the 20th century, used by British, American, French, and many other military services.

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Lewis Gun is a pre-World War I era squad automatic weapon/machine gun of American design that was most widely used by the forces of the British Empire. It was first used in combat with the Belgian Army in World War I, and continued in service all the way through to World War II.
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M2 Machine Gun, or Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun designed towards the end of World War I by John Browning. It was nicknamed Ma Deuce by US troops or simply called "fifty-cal" in reference to its caliber.
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The Pontiac M39 was a 20 mm revolver cannon developed for the United States Air Force in the late 1940s. It was used on a number of fighter aircraft from the early 1950s through the 1970s.
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The 20 mm M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically or pneumatically driven, six-barreled, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style cannon with an extremely high rate of fire. It has been the principal cannon armament of United States military aircraft for five decades.
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The M197 electric cannon is a three-barreled electric Gatling gun developed primarily for use by United States Army helicopter gunships.

Development of the M197 began in 1967 after experience in the Vietnam War revealed the inadequacy of the 7.62 mm Minigun for gunship use.
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BK 27 (also BK27 or BK-27) (German acronym for "Bordkanone", translation: on-board cannon) is a 27 mm autocannon manufactured by Mauser (currently part of Rheinmetall).
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MG 151 (MG 151/15) was a 15 mm autocannon produced by Waffenfabrik Mauser starting in 1940. It was in 1941 developed into the 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon which was widely used on many types of German Luftwaffe fighters, fighter bombers, night fighters, ground attack and even
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MG 15 was a 7.92 mm (0.31 in) machine gun developed by Rheinmetall-Borsig before World War II as a derivative of the company's MG 30 infantry weapon.
It was used in nearly all Luftwaffe aircraft with a flexible-mount defensive position.
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The MG 17 was a 7.92 mm machine gun produced by Rheinmetall-Borsig for use at fixed mountings in Luftwaffe aircraft.

The MG 17 was installed in the Messerschmitt Bf 109, Messerschmitt Bf 110, Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Junkers Ju 87, Junkers Ju 88 and many other aircraft.
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MG 131 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 131, or "Machine rifle 131") was a 13 mm machine gun developed in 1938 by Rheinmetall-Borsig and produced from 1940 to 1945.
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MG FF was a drum-fed 20 mm aircraft autocannon developed in 1936 by Ikaria in Germany. As a derivative of the Swiss Oerlikon FF F cannon the MG FF was license-produced in Germany.
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