Air-to-ground weaponry
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Air-to-ground weaponry includes all weapons used by airplanes and helicopters to destroy ground targets.
Machine gun
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Machine guns were one of the first weapons adapted on aircrafts, as early as the first world war. They were used to hunt down other aircrafts, but also shooting at infantry, vehicles and installations. This weapon is usually mounted on or in the nose, in or under the wings, or on the sides of the hull (in gunships). Those weapons evolved developing different aspects of those weapons : caliber, fire rate, number of machine gun mounted.
During World War II, american planes were mounted with a large number of low caliber machine guns, while european nations, and especially the germans, developed bigger caliber weapons, creating the first autocanons. Gatling guns at that time were not used, as the rail guns were more usefull.
Later, the USA developed new weapons for its vehicules, using the gatling design, as for the M61 Vulcan or the GAU-8 Avenger of the A-10 Thunderbolt. They are the main weapon system of american Gunships, as the AC 130.
Grenade launcher
Some helicopters are equipped with automatic grenade launchers, like the M75 and the M129, firing 40x53mm grenades.
Bomb
Roket
Missile
Cruise missile
