if you stuck GAU-8's with infinite ammo to each hardpoint,put

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>>34252631
The final answer approaches ZERO miles per hour (0 km per hr) as the guns will all drag. Durr. Summerfag, you will test positive when school starts again.

>>34252667
im a brainlet so can you elaborate?

>>34252707
the true answer is the A10 would collapse into a singularity and probably destroy the universe

>>34252745
>>34252667
The scenario doesn't say and infinite number of guns, just that they have infinite (magically weightless and volumeless is assumed) ammo.

>>34252631
Back of the envelope, it's a relatively easy calculation. Each gun puts out 5/8 the thrust of the engines. There are 11 hardpoints on the A-10. The guns plus the engines would be delivering 63/8 of the typical output (7.875X). Unfortunately, the A-10 is not designed for an additional ~680% thrust coming through the hardpoints, and after a very brief initial acceleration, the fucking wings would rip off and the plane's actual speed would become 0.

>>34252667
that formula doesnt look like it has anything to do with this and without intimate design details of the gau 8 or how it is mounted in this hypothetical, you can't know how much drag they have anyway

>>34252851
>>34252868
Holy fuck balls!
Nobody can tell when somebody googles "complex formula" to add to an "image board"

Nevertheless, the guns will drag. There is no way for the plane to take off.

>>34252932
Yes, the picture obviously had nothing to do with the question, but why are you saying it would have too much drag to take off? It has a shitload of thrust; far more than it was ever designed to take.

>>34253014
Not aerodynamic drag.
Friction.
The guns would plow into the ground and just make horrible nails-on-chalkboard noise.

>>34253045
Nah, the sheer mass of the infinite ammunition shoved into such a compact space would just create a black hole and destroy our solar system. Unless it works on some unknown energy-to-matter conversion system.

>>34253060
The thing about infinite is it's infinite. A whole lot more than just our solar system would be destroyed

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>>34252631
BOUT TREE FITTY

>How fast will it go


Up to never exceed speed, then it'll fall apart.

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>>34252631
fine, I'll do it.

>The Avenger's rate of fire was originally selectable, 2,100 rounds per minute (rpm) in the low setting, or 4,200 rpm in the high setting. Later this was changed to a fixed rate of 3,900 rpm.

>The standard ammunition mixture for anti-armor use is a four-to-one mix of PGU-14/B Armor Piercing Incendiary, with a projectile weight of about 15.0 oz (425 grams or 6,560 grains) and PGU-13/B High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) rounds, with a projectile weight of about 12.7 oz (360 grams or 5,556.25 grains).

>.8x425+.2x360)/1000x3900/60 = One second burst mass of 26.78 kg/s


>Hardpoints: 11 (8× under-wing and 3× under-fuselage pylon stations)

>26.78 kg/s x 11 = 294.58 kg/s = one second burst mass

The muzzle velocity of the avenger is 1,010 m/s. 294.58 kg at that velocity translates to 1.1082e+8 ft/lbf, or 110,820,000 ft/lbf per second. Two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofan engines produce 18,500 ft/lbf per second.


This means that our autistic 30mm powered plane has 599,027% more thrust, it's takeoff distance would go from 4,000 feet to under 10.

>>34255724
what about added weight of the cannons?

>>34255724
>>34255770
Factoring weight would add roughly 6,814 pounds of weight, only 27%.

Even with this considered, I'm pretty sure that the thrust would still be enough to g-lock the pilot on takeoff