And, each cartridge fires an incendiary projectile that weighs a whopping 6,096 grains or nearly a pound. The centerpiece of this impressive airplane is its GAU-8 Gatling gun, designed by General Electric, and blessed with a rate of fire of 4,200 rounds per minute. Air Force’s A-10 Thunderbolt is a low-altitude support plane that is designed to inflict lethal damage on enemy ground positions, tanks, buildings, and vehicles. Let’s look at some of the most powerful guns such as the GAU-8 Avenger, M134 Minigun, and Metal Storm. While 1,000 rounds of anything can certainly cause catastrophic battlefield damage, there are newer guns in the field today that make these weapons seem incomparable. And modern machine guns used in the War on Terror (the M249 SAW is quite common) only achieves a rate of fire around 1,000 rounds per minute. Hitler’s feared “Buzzsaw” machine gun struck fear into the hearts of Allied troops with its 1,500 rounds per minute max rate of fire. WWII introduced the BAR, or Browning Automatic Rifle, which delivered about 850 rounds per minute. WWI saw the use of the 1914 machine gun, which took the Civil War rate of fire and multiplied it by 100 for 400-600 rounds per minute. Fast forward to the Civil War and that figure doubled to nearly four shots a minute for a highly-trained marksman. Back in the days of the American Revolution, a good soldier could complete two well-aimed, accurate shots in 60 seconds or less.
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