US F-16s actually saw combat carrying the A-10's massive cannon

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The A-10 Thunderbolt II, better known as the Warthog, is renowned for its massive 30mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon. But for a short time in the twilight of the Cold War, the Air Force wanted to know if it could replace the low-and-slow Warthog by strapping a variant of the same massive gun to the light-and-nimble F-16.

Let's talk about the A-16, the F/A-16, and the 30mm gunpod these efforts produced.

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