MEDIUM CALIBER AMMUNITION
30mm x 173 GAU-8/A
30mm x 173 GAU-8/A
30mm x 173 GAU-8/A Ammunition
PGU-13/B HEI – PGU-14/B API – PGU-15/B TP
The 30mm x 173 GAU-8/A ammunition has combat-proven performance against all targets, including tanks, armored and light vehicles.
PGU-13/B – High Explosive Incendiary (HEI): Provides fragmentation and incendiary effects for use against personnel, trucks, ammunition storage, and many other targets.
PGU-14/B – Armor Piercing Incendiary (API): The high density penetrator provides excellent armor penetration capability and after-armor effects against tanks and armored personnel carriers.
PGU-15/B – Target Practice (TP): A ballistically matched, low-cost TP cartridge for use in training, weapons testing, and aircraft systems checkout.
Advantages:
- Not only combat effective, but cost effective, the PGU-15/B is the lowest cost target practice cartridge of this caliber in the world.
- The 30mm x 173 family has been used in the GAU-8/A Gatling Gun, the Goalkeeper CIWS, and the Bushmaster II. Derivatives of the 30mm X 173 GAU 8/A family have been developed and qualified by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems for use in the 30mm Mauser Model F Gun Systems.
- The PGU-15/B TP round is ballistically matched to thePGU-14/B API and PGU-13/B HEI for cost-effective training for Goalkeeper and other 30mm X173 cartridges.
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