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The 20mm cannon on an F-16 is the entire assembly labeled as items 63, 72, 73 and the ammunition is 78.

How do you envisage this as other than a fixed installation?



Yeah. The guns in a typical WW2 bomber were M2 brownings...which are less than 100lbs.

It's the square-cube law in action (twice over). Going from a 12.7mm to a 20-25mm bullet... twice the diameter, four times the crosssection, eight times the mass.




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