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Originally Posted by kato13
The GAU-8 is Huge
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Well going off the Specs the total system lenght is 19 ft 10.5 in and the hull lenght of the M1 Abrams is 26.02 ft, removing the Ammo drum and mounting it on seperate trailer would furter reduce the lenght. I think is possible to mount the gun on the tank and run a ammo feed through the turret and out the trailer. The turret would never rotate agian, but you moving the gun by moving the hull. This of course would require alot of work from a bunch of speicalists, but I can see this being used in Europe where damage A-10 and M1's could matted together. It could also happen in states using Hulls and GAU-8/A Avenger parts after the nuclear exchanges, I could espeically see this as the case in states where GE would be envoled in making both weapons systems and would have techincal knowledge.