Kurt dove for cover as aircraft cannon shells hit the bridge.

Tooled from an aircraft cannon shell, it was more like a weapon.

An aircraft cannon shell had punched a neat hole through the firing box.

The Ho-1 and Ho-3 automatic aircraft cannon were developed from the Type 97.

The projectiles themselves are identical to those fired by the NS-37 aircraft cannon.

The radar is compatible with optically guided missiles like the R-73 and can also provide fire control for aircraft cannon.

The 23mm Rikhter aircraft cannon and its unique telescoped ammunition remained a military secret for a long time.

Aircraft cannon shells were racketing off the forecastle when Jager's guns first spoke.

The same kind of mechanism with a single pyrotechnical cartridge was later incorporated into the 30mm GSh-301 aircraft cannon.

One of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown, it fires large depleted uranium armor-piercing shells.

The AM-23 aircraft cannon is a gas-operated weapon with a vertically moving wedge breechblock.

The new auto cannon was not only considered the best aircraft cannon of its kind but was also suited for anti-aircraft use.

It would be another 50 years before the concept was again used to allow extremely high rates of fire, such as in miniguns, and automatic aircraft cannon.

Considering the various users and the large number of aircraft employing this weapon, it was perhaps the most widely used aircraft cannon of its day.

Due to manufacturing difficulties the smallest shells commonly used are around 20 mm calibre, used in aircraft cannon and on armoured vehicles.

The station successfully remotely test-fired an onboard aircraft cannon at a target satellite while the station was unmanned.

The GSh-6-23 differs from most American multi-barreled aircraft cannon in that it is gas-operated, rather than externally powered via an electric, hydraulic, or pneumatic system.

However, close range fighting with infrared guided missiles and aircraft cannons still obey the same general rules laid down in the skies over Europe in the early 20th century.

Occasionally, some front line PT boats received ad hoc up-fits at forward bases, where they mounted such weapons as 37mm aircraft cannons, rocket launchers, or mortars.

It is the only event where civilians (regardless of nationality) can see an Airshow at 1700 meters above sea level and see the live use of aircraft cannons.

The drums of aircraft cannons such as the M61 Vulcan and GAU-8 Avenger resemble drum magazines for small arms, but function in a different manner.

APK (Aviatsionnaya Pushka Kurchevsky - aircraft cannon Kurchevsky)

The file at the National Archives suggests real fears that Kendall planned to smuggle secret plans for a new 20mm aircraft cannon out of the UK to America.

OPS-4 was to have featured two rockets instead of the aircraft cannon, but this system has not been shown publicly and may have never been fully manufactured despite it being used experimentally.

ShVAK (Shpital'nyy/Vladimirov Aviatsionny Krupnokalibernaya - Shpital'nyy/Komarnitskii large calibre aircraft cannon)