Military aircraft question
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From: Mount Airy,MD
If your interested, here are some movies and sites on the A-10 and the Avenger.
http://www.notworksafe.com/videos/vi...10Shooting.avi
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/resea...k/a6/a6-13.htm
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/30mm.html
http://www.patricksaviation.com/vide...on=view&id=245
http://www.notworksafe.com/videos/vi...10Shooting.avi
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/resea...k/a6/a6-13.htm
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/30mm.html
http://www.patricksaviation.com/vide...on=view&id=245
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From: Virginia
The A-10 is one of my favorite aircraft. The punishment it can take is outstanding, and the armament for the pilot is substantial. The cannon can only be fired for about 10 second bursts. Any more and the recoils slows the plane down too much to maintain airspeed and the puppy takes on the aerodynamics of a brick. Too bad the services are looking to replace it. Given the amount of success in air to ground combat this plane has had, it seems like it would be hard to beat.
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From: ....I could be anywhere....
Originally Posted by Podunk
Does "loadmaster" have any thing to do with the **** industry??
hardy har
no..it means "nothing gets on the plane untill the beer is loaded"
when he's in germany
...zap!
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From: great white north
C-5 galaxy...I'm not sure thier is a C-10 as I posted...I have been inside the flying warehouse, at an airshow...complete with H-1 hummers, ect...If tank's and hummers are dropped from this plane, I'm sure it could be modified to drop bombs, but not threw the rear door...what is the top air speed for a C-5?
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From: Macon GA
Remember the cold war?
B1-B aka Regans brilliant plan: By 1980 the US's only front line heavy lift bomber was the B-52. The Soviets had over 30 years to develop countermeasures in the event of an all out war. The Soviets dedicated vast sums of money to intercept and destroy high flying US bombers.
Along came the B1-B, low and fast. The Soviets had nothing to detect, intercept, and destroy such a target. They didnt even have the technology to counter the B1-B, again, they had to spend vast sums of money.
The threat of the B1-B did more damage to the Soviet Union than any bombs it may have ever dropped.
Ever notice how the government wants us to know about certain weapons, but other stuff like the SR-71 was retired before we ever knew they existed.
Makes me wonder what else they have hidden away.
B1-B aka Regans brilliant plan: By 1980 the US's only front line heavy lift bomber was the B-52. The Soviets had over 30 years to develop countermeasures in the event of an all out war. The Soviets dedicated vast sums of money to intercept and destroy high flying US bombers.
Along came the B1-B, low and fast. The Soviets had nothing to detect, intercept, and destroy such a target. They didnt even have the technology to counter the B1-B, again, they had to spend vast sums of money.
The threat of the B1-B did more damage to the Soviet Union than any bombs it may have ever dropped.
Ever notice how the government wants us to know about certain weapons, but other stuff like the SR-71 was retired before we ever knew they existed.
Makes me wonder what else they have hidden away.
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From: Somewhere in the EU
The SR71 and the A12 were well known long before they were retired.. (God I love the SR 71)
As for what else is out there . . . well, maybe some senior citizens on this board can tell you . . . .
and as for that Pee Wee Herman taking out Mike Tyson post . . . these days, anyone could take out Tyson. My sister could do it.
As for what else is out there . . . well, maybe some senior citizens on this board can tell you . . . .
and as for that Pee Wee Herman taking out Mike Tyson post . . . these days, anyone could take out Tyson. My sister could do it.
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From: Nebraska
Im still trying to figure out how they got the first pilot to go up in that thing?
I cant see lighting up the engines on an SR-71 when you have fuel drizzling out of the bottom of the plane.
I dont care if it was "Suppose" to be like that, I would have made one of the so called engineers push the button while I waited out side the hanger.
I cant see lighting up the engines on an SR-71 when you have fuel drizzling out of the bottom of the plane.
I dont care if it was "Suppose" to be like that, I would have made one of the so called engineers push the button while I waited out side the hanger.
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From: 33.02N / 96.66W
Too bad the B-70 Valkarie was still born... (Article )
B-1 payload, SR-71 speed...
What's not to love?
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I can't say what the Army may be experimenting with, but the standard gum on the Apache is a 30mm chain gun (single barrell)...
Same size slug, as the A-10's gun, single barrell as opposed to a 7-barrell tank killer.
The GAU-8 Avenger is one big-*** gun; the Apache would have to be heavily modified to carry that. Plus, it's a 7-barrell gattling gun.
It's amazing that the Apache has a bigger gun than the freaking M2 Bradley (25mm bushmaster).
Avenger- (GAU-8)
Full article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger
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Vulcan
Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M61_Vulcan
25mm Chain gun
Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_gun
B-1 payload, SR-71 speed...
What's not to love?
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I can't say what the Army may be experimenting with, but the standard gum on the Apache is a 30mm chain gun (single barrell)...
Same size slug, as the A-10's gun, single barrell as opposed to a 7-barrell tank killer.
The GAU-8 Avenger is one big-*** gun; the Apache would have to be heavily modified to carry that. Plus, it's a 7-barrell gattling gun.
It's amazing that the Apache has a bigger gun than the freaking M2 Bradley (25mm bushmaster).
Avenger- (GAU-8)
Full article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger
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Vulcan
Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M61_Vulcan
25mm Chain gun
Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_gun
Last edited by cia-agent; Oct 15, 2005 at 01:42 AM.
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From: Seoul
Good thread, very informative.
I was an Operations Officer during Al FAJR (Battle for Fallujah) and we used an AC-130 Gun Ship to clear roads, city blocks, and palm groves. The thing would only fly at night but it would just chew terrain in front of us. It was a remarkable aircraft that no one ever saw. It fired .50 cal, 7.62 link, and 106mm recoilless. I commend those guys for the job they did. Us grunts loved the sound of that thing coming on station. God bless them.
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I was an Operations Officer during Al FAJR (Battle for Fallujah) and we used an AC-130 Gun Ship to clear roads, city blocks, and palm groves. The thing would only fly at night but it would just chew terrain in front of us. It was a remarkable aircraft that no one ever saw. It fired .50 cal, 7.62 link, and 106mm recoilless. I commend those guys for the job they did. Us grunts loved the sound of that thing coming on station. God bless them.
Respectfully Submitted, nonexpert.
Last edited by Shorty; Oct 15, 2005 at 12:06 PM.
