Show Me Your 30mm, A-10 Aircraft Rounds - PLEASE :-)

[Slick]

Maybe get one of these cockpits. Original A model. Steam gauges. You could always build on an extra room for it.

At least blow up this pic and make a poster.

 

[apfsds]

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Maybe get one of these cockpits. Original A model. Steam gauges. You could always build on an extra room for it.

At least blow up this pic and make a poster.

You had to temp me, Rick! DAMMMM YOU Lol Must have

 

[tomsk]

Laid out the collection so far for a pics. This is just a specimen staging area. After a few more years of hunting, I hope to build an epic formal display. Still have so much still out there to track down.

Jason
PS: ALL HEI ROUNDS 100% INERT & VERIFIABLE HOLLOW EMPTY PROJECTILES FREE OF HE


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Now this is just showing off

 

[apfsds]

Now this is just showing off

Haha! Thanks, Tom. I am hooked on this LOL

 

[apfsds]

I sectioned the windscreen on one of the od black AEROJET API-T projectiles to observe its core.

I see these fairly often in collections, but do not think they were ever adopted?

I have seen the variant marked with a red stripe to indicate, D u. This one is strongly magnetic and I believe steel or tungsten.

Jason

 

[apfsds]

Excited to have just added some really nice new additions to the project.

Jason
PS: All HE projectiles are verifiable EMPTY & INERT

 

[apfsds]

Collection so far Hooked big time on the 30 x 173 GAU-8 rounds for the, A-10.

Jason
PS: ALL HE Rounds 100% Verifiably INERT and contain zero HE, powder or live primers.

 

[jonesy1275]

Jason, that's an amazing collection. The Hog is such a fantastic aircraft and I've been privileged to watch it shoot the gun on a few occasions. I have two GAU-8 rounds in my collection. The best being a depleted uranium PGU-14B/B casing but with a training round.

Do you source all your rounds from the UK? If not, any issues getting them into the country?

Regards,
Neil.

 

[apfsds]

Jason, that's an amazing collection. The Hog is such a fantastic aircraft and I've been privileged to watch it shoot the gun on a few occasions. I have two GAU-8 rounds in my collection. The best being a depleted uranium PGU-14B/B casing but with a training round.

Do you source all your rounds from the UK? If not, any issues getting them into the country?

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Thanks big time for your kind words. Are you in the US? Most of my collection is indeed from the US. Difficult to import nowadays.

Post some pics of your rounds when you can.

Jason

 

[jonesy1275]

I live in the UK. I'll take a photo of the two rounds I've got in a couple of days.

 

[jonesy1275]

Here's my two rounds. The one on the right was bought at the Bovington Tank Museum back in the 90's. The round appears to be a machined solid piece of aluminium.

 

[apfsds]

Both Very Nice! Thanks for the pictures. The one on the right appears to be modeled after the, GAU-9?

 

[jonesy1275]

An update from my previous post. A good friend managed to get me some Link Tube Carriers plus I bought a few more 30mm rounds.

 

[apfsds]

Super Nice! The LTC's are in great condition too. Congrats big time on the new additions. Great pitches too. I'm a patch nerd and you have some nice ones.