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I know you've seen the wheel lock, mini-guns, M60, one, perhaps two khukuri, a few different grenades, and other miscellaneous oddities in the past. The Good Doctor has adopted another weapon that you won't find in your average collection and given it a home here in Corn Patch. This is a 2.75" Folding Fin Aerial Rocket (FFAR) with a 10 pound HE war head. Been busy the past few days making it presentable and believe even my ol' drinking buddy, Bawanna, will agree that it does look more gooder. I used these rockets during the late hostilities while in my youth.
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Looks impressive, Mr. Bookie. You must have fired a boatload of those. Since they were unguided, I'm guessing you had to be a sharpshooter, too.
 
Far out! Could of used some of those and a helicopter back in my youth on my morning commute on the freeway.
I always thought a helicopter and a sack full of rocks would be good pay back for some of those idiot drivers, but that would be much more guder and effective.
 
Heck yeah! That would definitely be useful on interstate 35 in downtown Austin at 5:00 pm. Heck of a piece!
 
Bookie, with those Mk40's did you guys use the M3, M4 or M17 subsystems? I don't remember what was "standard" and what you guys might have just made work LOL
 
Dai Uy, here are some of the sub-systems I used when flying with the Razorbacks & Cav.
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[IMG][URL=http://s10.photobucket.com/user/sbooko/media/Kickin%20More%20Butt.jpg.html][IMG]http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/sbooko/Kickin%20More%20Butt.jpg[/URL][/IMG] Actual pic of moi putting the hurt on Charlie. You can see the rocket motors are ignited.
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It really is true! Giving is more gratifying than receiving. Especially when dozens at a time:D
 
The rockets tilt up so they are level when the helicopter is in normal flight. So points the nose of the bird, so point the rockets. The mini-gun has the electric turned off, so the mount droops the gun down. When the power is turned on, the gun automatically levels itself. The gun flexes outwards, up, and down. The gun on the opposite side of the aircraft also flexes outwards to provide uninterrupted protection.
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I suspected as much for the rockets. The gun drooping while electrical is off makes a lot of sense. How did you direct the flexing of the guns?
 
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Interesting. Sounds like a well-designed system. Makes me wonder what improvements have been made since then. I know about guns that are slaved to the gunner's helmet with a reticle in the helmet visor, but it makes me wonder what Blackhawk variants like the Direct-Action Penetrator used.
 
As expected all 3 of the systems I mention Bookie has pictures of Razorbacks using them :D Loved the old 17s.
the older DAPs used a Armament System Processor Panel developed as a CMC Electronics' Integrated Weapons Delivery System (IWDS). Basically the computer directs the firing based on the mission code, but only after the pilot authorizes the particular launch/shot after reviewing in a heads up display. I have to admit to not knowing what the current generation uses sorry.
 
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I live in the center of the state, in Newton.

Shav, imagine you are making a gun run at 120 knots and you salvo all 38 rockets at one time, at one target. It feels as if God has put out his invisible hand onto the chopper's nose and everything just slows down to 60 knots instantaneously. This is a real rush. I was addicted to adrenalin.
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Bac Si, I imagine it is exactly the same feel I got when I was able to ride in an A-10 and they open up with the 30mm nose gun. The whole plane just stops moving forward and shakes like a shark tearing up a sea lion. The adrenaline in my opportunity wasn't as good as yours though, because there wasn't any chance of someone shooting back :D What did you do to bring your addiction under control once you no longer were flying the choppers? I know my door gunner friend had significant issues with that when his last deployment ended. He was always getting in trouble trying to recapture some of the rush.
 
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Bac Si, I imagine it is exactly the same feel I got when I was able to ride in an A-10 and they open up with the 30mm nose gun. The whole plane just stops moving forward and shakes like a shark tearing up a sea lion. The adrenaline in my opportunity wasn't as good as yours though, because there wasn't any chance of someone shooting back :D What did you do to bring your addiction under control once you no longer were flying the choppers? I know my door gunner friend had significant issues with that when his last deployment ended. He was always getting in trouble trying to recapture some of the rush.
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How did you get that opportunity? The A-10 was a single-seater. The only official two-seater variant was a prototype that didn't make it far. Other than that, no two-seaters other than one that Fairchild Republic made unsolicited and pitched to the AF as a trainer.
 
We had a unit of A-10's assigned to the Division, and they had a number of training flights. I don't know the exact nomenclature of the training planes they used to teach noob A-10 pilots. They looked exactly like an A-10, perhaps they were something else mocked up to mimic them but if that is the case they were better than I could identify. I don't honestly know. But anyways they always offered us the opportunity to ride along. I took them up on it as often as possible. Hmm. Now I wonder what planes they actually were then. I don't know of any other plane in the world that has that distinctive nose gun so I just assumed they were 2 seater trainer A-10s...
 
There was never an official trainer A-10 variant. The A-10B N/AW was two seater, but they only made one. I did hear that Fairchild flew a few of their two-seaters that they wanted to sell to Germany and let pilots fly them in hopes of getting the AF to buy them.
 
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