Answering the age old question: what if the A-10 was a tank?
The obvious next step is to use Ahead ammunition, where each bullet breaks into multiple tungsten sub-projectiles. With the later prototype, it could fire 1,463 35mm rounds at 3,000 rpm. With standard 35mm Ahead rounds at 152 sub-projectiles per round, that means this thing can fill the skies with 222,376 tungsten pellets in just under 30 seconds.
That’s cool af, shame there aren’t any civil applications for the engineering that went into it.
Well, one can never know the true value of research until it's used for such a purpose, and the sciences have a habit of producing discoveries from seemingly distant fields, and taking something born of malevolence and giving it a humanitarian purpose. For example, the development of mustard gas may seem like something that had no positive benefit to humanity, but in reality, compounds derived from it would become the first chemotherapy, saving far more lives than it took.
Imagine if napoleon had one of these at Waterloo. Brrrrrrtttttt an entire line of anglos goes down