Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon (ADEN being an acronym for "Armament Development, Enfield")
In service 1953–present
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History Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon (ADEN being an acronym for "Armament Development, Enfield")
In service 1953–present
The Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon (ADEN being an acronym for "Armament Development, Enfield") is a 30 mm revolver cannon used on many military aircraft, particularly those of the British Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm. Developed post-World War II primarily to meet British Air Ministry's requirement for increased lethality in aircraft armament, the cannon is fired electrically, and is fully automatic once loaded. Design and development
British testing of German 30 mm mine shell on a Bristol Blenheim. Single shot test.
During World War II, the German firm Mauser began development of a radically new 20 mm autocannon using a motorised firing mechanism in order to improve the rate of fire. The weapon was designed for 20mm mine shell rounds (designated the Mauser MG 213 and for 30mm rounds (the Mauser MK 213). However, production of the MK 213 never commenced due to development problems such as excessive barrel wear, not to mention the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive campaign against German industry. At the end of the war only 5 prototypes (V1 to V5) of either 20 mm MG 213 or 30 mm MK 213 were finished
Aircraft use
Built-in armament
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- CAC Sabre
- English Electric Lightning
- Folland Gnat
- Gloster Javelin
- HAL Ajeet
- HAL Marut
- Hawker Hunter
- Saab Draken
- Saab Lansen
- SEPECAT Jaguar
- ST Aerospace A-4S Skyhawk
- Supermarine Scimitar
- Supermarine Swift
As external armament
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The ADEN gun has seen use in several gun pods including:
- British Hawker Siddeley Harrier and BAe Sea Harrier, as well as the US Marine Corps AV-8A/Cs, carried two 30 mm ADEN gun pods below the fuselage of the aircraft.
- The FFV 30 mm [sv] and Matra SA-10 gunpods produced for Swedish Air Force by collaboration with FFV and S. A. Engins Matra used on Saab AJ 37 and Saab Sk 60B/C attack aircraft during the early 1970s used guns taken from scrapped Swedish Saab J 32Bs and Hawker Hunter J 34s. The FFV pod has also been sold to the Austrian Air Force for use on their Saab 105Ös.
- A centreline gun pod containing ADEN gun and 100 rounds on the BAE Systems Hawk in RAF service. It is still in active service with, among others, the South African Air Force.
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Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon
(ADEN being an acronym for
"Armament Development, Enfield")
In service 1953–present
Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon
Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon (ADEN being an acronym for "Armament Development, Enfield")
Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon (ADEN being an acronym for "Armament Development, Enfield")
In service 1953–present
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Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon
- Type: Single-barrel aircraft autocannon
- Action: Revolver drum with 5 chambers
- Operation: Gas operation
- Cocking-system: Pneumatic
- Priming: Electronic firing
- Firing-system: Electrical 26 volts DC
- Rifling: Progressive RH parabolic twist, 16 grooves
- Cartridge: 30 × 113 mm
- Calibre: 30 mm (1.18 in)
- Weight of complete weapon: 87.1 kg (192 lb), 196 kg (432 lb) with 200 rounds
- Length of complete weapon: 1,590–1,639 mm
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Specifications - Armour-piercing (30 mm pprj m/55 Sweden)
- Projectile type: Armour-Piercing, Composite Rigid
- Fuze type: None
- Core type: Tungsten penetrator
- Cartridge weight: 511 g (18.0 oz)
- Projectile weight: 270 g (9.52 oz)
- Core weight: 150 g (5.29 oz)
- Propellant weight: 47 g (1.66 oz)
- CU-pressure: 2930 bar
- Muzzle velocity: 795 m/s (2,610 ft/s)
- Target practice (Practice Mk.2Z, UK )
- Cartridge weight: 440 g (15.5 oz)
- Projectile weight: 220 g (7.76 oz)
- Core weight: 80.5 g (2.84 oz)
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In service 1953–present
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The ADEN Mk 5 became the basis for the planned ADEN 25, which was to be a somewhat larger weapon at 90 in (2.3 m) long and weighing 203 pounds (92.1 kg) firing the new range of 25x137mm NATO STANAG 4173 ammunition (as developed for M242 Bushmaster) at a much higher muzzle velocity of 3,445 feet per second (1,050 m/s).
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Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake experimented with Sidewinders in the air-to-ground mode including use as an anti-tank weapon
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In service 1953–present
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