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  • The gunship camera footage from July 2007 shows a group of Iraqi men, some of them armed, being raked by the helicopter's 30-mm cannon as they walk along a Baghdad street.

    WikiLeaks works to expose government secrets, but Web site's sources are a mystery 2010

  • The gunship camera footage from July 2007 shows a group of Iraqi men, some of them armed, being raked by the helicopter's 30-mm cannon as they walk along a Baghdad street.

    WikiLeaks works to expose government secrets, but Web site's sources are a mystery 2010

  • The fighters zeroed in on the bridge, strafing the command hub with rockets and 30-mm cannons.

    The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

  • Some Israeli sources have disputed the use of rockets during the air attack, stating that the shell holes resulted from 30-mm cannons.

    The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

  • The helicopter banks so hard it nearly goes upside down, and it comes in like some huge, furious insect, unleashing a long burp of 30-mm. -cannon fire.

    Into the Valley of Death Junger, Sebastian 2008

  • An A-10 rolled in and gave the bunker a squirt from its 30-mm nose gun, which has a roar like a long and beer-rich belch.

    'Keep The Pressure Up' 2008

  • When the skies cleared at 6: 30 p.m., the lead pair of A-10s spotted something to hit and emptied 600 rounds from their 30-mm cannons, shattering a World War II-vintage antitank gun.

    Mission Accomplished--Barely 2008

  • The mission began as a simple retaliatory blow against the Bosnian Serbs who, in the predawn hours last Friday, slipped into a depot near Sarajevo to remove a T-55 tank, two armored personnel carriers and a 30-mm anti-aircraft gun.

    Mission Accomplished--Barely 2008

  • Most of them say that they took 15, 20 rounds. 20 rounds could be small arms fire, could be a 30-mm round.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2003 2003

  • Their BRM reconnaissance track had a fine 30-mm cannon that could reach out and turn the gardener into fertilizer from a thousand meters or so, but Captain Aleksandrov had forbidden it, worse luck, Buikov thought.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

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