My Saturday

[bennylaird]

Benny, that would be a 7.62mm GPMG M60. A 550rpm gen purpose machine gun, singley fitted to each quarter compartment on a slick, or twin mounts with 14 rockets and 6000rpm 7.62 miniguns on a gunship.

As for the tracer, yes it looks good (especially during night fires) but it ruins accuracy due to the paint on the round pulling it off target.

Lol I knew that but after working on ANZAC frigates I had them mixed up.

There is a lot of speculation about the tracer/normal mix. From what I've heard pilots had their own preferences. Aiming by tracer alone caused a lot of inaccuracy due to the different trajectory of the round?

I was a Radtechg so not up on armament. The gunnies gave great instruction on the ejector seats though. & pins needed. If the pilot calls Eject Eject Eject and you here the last eject, your flying it. My old boss down here managed an ejection from a Skyhawk as a crew cheif, was up checking out a turbine when it stopped turbining.

[bennylaird]

Here's what packs a punch in the Scepre.

[Iain]

And the fire extinguisher is there in case it goes off accidentally???

[Groggy]

[bennylaird]

Have a good video of the big gun taking out buildings, vehicles and people in Afganistan. Too big to post.

[Auld Bassoon]

Best I ever managed was a quick trip to Mildura and back (non stop) in a Mirage.

Many moons ago (I was around nineteen, I think, an old school pal had joied the RAF and somehow wangled me a joy-jump (as they were known) in an English Electric Lightening.

It was barely a ten minute flight: off the deck, at about 350ft, and 400Kts, the pilot sat the bird on it's tail and lit off the rearheat. Bugger me gently:eek: , this thing goes >Mach1 in a vertical climb:eek: , and we peaked at around 60,000 ft doing God only knows what, because my eyes were so unfocused by now I couldn't read the instruments:confused: . Then the descent was almost as rapid, and, in the words of the pilot "hang on, this thing doesn't land, it crashes in a semi-controlled sort of way" Gulp.

Great stuff, great bird - but no legs - up, launch (AAMs in a combat situation), and down.

Was giddy about it for a week; couldn't resist telling any- and every-one all about it. No doubt in excruciating detail...

Cheers!

[Termite]

Here's what packs a punch in the Scepre.

105mm AP Sabot.