The Sea Wiz is the affectionate nickname given to a 20mm Vulcan Cannon on board the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier. It fires 4,500 rounds a minute, can hit a target five miles away and has ...

the guns weren't ready for the fly-off between the two competing prototype aircraft. Instead, the Air Force provided the smaller 20mm M61 Vulcan cannon that was in widespread use for the head-to ...

Northrop's night fighter was large, heavily armed, and fast for its size; the United States first night fighter designed from ...

After extensive testing, the 20mm version was selected for further testing to determine its suitability as an aircraft mounted weapon. In 1956 the gun was standardized as the M61 20mm cannon and ...

One of the newest aircraft to enter service in the U.S. Air Force is the F-35 Lightning II, which is a fifth-generation ...

The Lightning II is part of the fifth generation of fighter aircraft, incorporating the newest stealth technology and ...

The aircraft's navigation system uses a laser ... The "E" model also has an internally mounted 20mm gun that can carry up to 500 rounds. The F-15's superior maneuverability and acceleration ...

This is one of the 20mm Cannon Shells fired by Mosquito II DD612 ... who fired it into a German aircraft, which crash landed with no loss of life, the crew being sent to Canada as POW's where ...

The proof-of-concept airplane was powered by two General Electric J85 turbojet engines, each generating 2,950 lbf (13 kN) of ...

which is then used to physically transfer the munitions inside the aircraft. M-61 20mm cannon on an F-15C (Image credit: Wiki) The innovation effort has been praised by senior officers as an ...

To suppress enemy anti-aircraft fire and counter harassment by lethal MiG attack fighters, the U.S. relied heavily on the F-4 Phantom. Armed with a 20mm cannon and air-to-air missiles, the fast ...

Explosive ordnance technicians on Guam recently removed and detonated a U.S. bomb base fuse and two unexploded shells ...