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Military dudes. A question? Regarding air strikes.
Posted on 11/1/14 at 11:33 am
Posted on 11/1/14 at 11:33 am
Watching YouTube vids this morning of Apache vs. Insurgents variety. What is the range of the 30mm(?) guns? And then of course the missles.
Reason I ask, if you are up to no good. Digging a hole in a road or creeping around the sand and rubble, and you hear a helicopter? Do you not stop or scatter. The Blackhawks that fly over us in Katy are loud as frick and make a distinct sound. And this is in a large city with highway noise etc? I am guessing there is a constant drone of helicopter noise and they just don't notice?
Help a civilian puss understand.
Edited to make title more specific.
Reason I ask, if you are up to no good. Digging a hole in a road or creeping around the sand and rubble, and you hear a helicopter? Do you not stop or scatter. The Blackhawks that fly over us in Katy are loud as frick and make a distinct sound. And this is in a large city with highway noise etc? I am guessing there is a constant drone of helicopter noise and they just don't notice?
Help a civilian puss understand.
Edited to make title more specific.
This post was edited on 11/1/14 at 11:35 am
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Posted on 11/1/14 at 11:40 am to LSU alum wannabe
a few thousand meters, not like something you would see in a movie or a video game. When I was in Iraq they would fly pretty high above our convoys. And they are also fairly quiet.
This post was edited on 11/1/14 at 11:41 am
Posted on 11/1/14 at 11:46 am to LSU alum wannabe
Some of the videos are interesting because at some point it becomes obvious that the fighters hear the imminent missle/gunfire and scatter, but by then it's too late.
Posted on 11/1/14 at 11:47 am to LSU alum wannabe
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Apache
M230 Chain Gun
Max range: 4500m Max eff. range: 1500m
ROF: 625rpm
Hellfire AGM-114
Operational Range: 546 yards - 5 miles
Hydra 70 rockets
Max range: 10500m Max eff. range: 8000m
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and you hear a helicopter? Do you not stop or scatter.
The pilots don't typically acquire their own targets - they stay low and come over the horizon to deliver ordnance quickly.
Posted on 11/1/14 at 11:48 am to LSU alum wannabe
What you probably saw was an AC-130. Those bitches can be miles away.
Posted on 11/1/14 at 12:11 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Appropriate emoticon:
Posted on 11/1/14 at 8:01 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Watching YouTube vids this morning of Apache vs. Insurgents variety.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that does this. I can waste hours watching those videos.
Posted on 11/1/14 at 8:47 pm to LSU alum wannabe
The 130 gunship can just sit up there, wait for targets to get called in, then dump 1 round in every square yard in a football sized target area in less than a minute...
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Posted on 11/1/14 at 8:51 pm to LSU alum wannabe
25 B-52s. Across Iraq, Afg., Iran. Make them a parking lot. Then prohibit any more Muslims to enter the U S
Posted on 11/2/14 at 1:16 pm to LSU alum wannabe
The range to target is listed in meters on those videos. It's on the bottom either to the left of right of center, I can't remember which.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 2:54 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Apache
Off topic, but one of the coolest things I saw in Iraq was when our convoy was heading into Fallujah, and we had Apache over watch. We started taking fire and were getting small arms fire pretty hard so we called for air support/show of force and two Apaches came out of seemingly nowhere and couldn't have been more than 150-200ft off the ground, flew the length of the convoy, popping flares and went straight up, spun, and made it rain.
shite made my dick move.
Anyway..carry on.
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