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When the Soviets Mounted a Big Gun on Small Aircraft | The MiG-27 and GSh-6-30 story

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Amazing story of pairing a Soviet Mikoyan MiG-27 light fighter-bomber with an enormously powerful GSh-6-30 aircraft gun. A gun, one might say, even more powerful than the GAU-8 installed on the A-10 Thunderbolt.

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21:56 - Big Guns in the Soviet Air Force

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