F-16 strafes School
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137632,00.html
Look! A 20mm cannon!
The plane was 7,000 feet in the air when the shots were fired. The gun, an M61-A1 Vulcan cannon (search), is located in the plane's left wing. It fires 2-inch-long bullets that are made of lead and do not explode, said Webster -
i think that the pilot has a lot to answer liao
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holy Shit
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probably was his former sch and he hated it.Originally posted by monkeybusiness:i think that the pilot has a lot to answer liao 
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wats new?
they've been doing this to Iraqis isn't it?
i guess they juz ran out of schools to shoot at, and couldn't resist it in their own turf.
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Originally posted by Poopie-Head:wats new?
they've been doing this to Iraqis isn't it?
i guess they juz ran out of schools to shoot at, and couldn't resist it in their own turf.
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Originally posted by Poopie-Head:wats new?
they've been doing this to Iraqis isn't it?
i guess they juz ran out of schools to shoot at, and couldn't resist it in their own turf.
If the pilot really really really really wanted to score an own goal, he'd have fired live ammo. -
It wasn't Iraqi schools but schools in Afghanistan.Originally posted by Poopie-Head:wats new?
they've been doing this to Iraqis isn't it?
i guess they juz ran out of schools to shoot at, and couldn't resist it in their own turf.
The pilot in this New Jersy case, is a National Guards man very much the same as the local reservist. Its like the pilot hasn't flown a fighter jets for sometime or the plane model is new to him.
Then again, I've learn never to trust an airforce pilot in dropping bombs & doing strafe runs, they always seem to hit the wrong target even with all their high tech stuff.
Even their airforce Spec Ops can't seem to do their job right in the fields.
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LMAO, juz joking larOriginally posted by Johnston:
If the pilot really really really really wanted to score an own goal, he'd have fired live ammo.
see my face ?
luckily nobody got hurt, I can't say the same for the many innocent iraqi civilian VICTIMS ...
One thing is i keep hearing about how "high tech" the american weapons are, yet such things can happen. makes me wonder... -
Show me a arms manufacturer that hasn't managed to have a OOPS or two.Originally posted by Poopie-Head:One thing is i keep hearing about how "high tech" the american weapons are, yet such things can happen. makes me wonder...
Colt has had some gaffes.
H&K too.
And so on, so forth.
Everything is ok.
If you put the aircraft there and never touch it, nothing will happen.
You need to get in it, fly out, and try to fire.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136408,00.html
It's National Guard too. -
strafling and free fall bombs maybe, coz it depends alot on the pilot's skills tooOriginally posted by Johnston:Show me a arms manufacturer that hasn't managed to have a OOPS or two.
Colt has had some gaffes.
H&K too.
And so on, so forth.
Everything is ok.
If you put the aircraft there and never touch it, nothing will happen.
You need to get in it, fly out, and try to fire.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136408,00.html
It's National Guard too.
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What if the person designating the target swung the darned thing off target just when it was going to hit.Originally posted by Poopie-Head:strafling and free fall bombs maybe, coz it depends alot on the pilot's skills too
but wat about guided bombs?
mechanical error?
Bomb fin not aligned just so?
and so on, so forth.
Or error in the bombsight? -
Hmm! Its likely the pilots was listening to Briteny Spears< Oops! I did it again! > on another frequency. Either that or his call sign is Bad Karma, Bat-0#, Itchy Fingers, Strafer, etc.
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The weapons are high tech all right, its the person using it that is in need of a fix.Originally posted by Poopie-Head:LMAO, juz joking lar see my face ?
luckily nobody got hurt, I can't say the same for the many innocent iraqi civilian VICTIMS ...
One thing is i keep hearing about how "high tech" the american weapons are, yet such things can happen. makes me wonder... -
Luckily its at night and theres no students inside the school otherwise sure more jialat one!
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hmm.. buildings all look the same at night from such a height.
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25 rounds? Must be strays then... U see, vulcans dish out 6000rpm.. Tat's 100 rounds per min? so 25 rounds wld have to be strays.. But still, if someone is to be popped by juz one round, the results wun be nice eh?
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eh u mean 100 rounds per sec ? well, 25 rounds mean about 0.25 seconds ...Originally posted by dRaKe86:25 rounds? Must be strays then... U see, vulcans dish out 6000rpm.. Tat's 100 rounds per min? so 25 rounds wld have to be strays.. But still, if someone is to be popped by juz one round, the results wun be nice eh?
hmmm, ok the pilot must be too trigger-happy, suddenly realised wrong target so stopped ... -
6000rpm???!!!! ok... im not going to war...Originally posted by dRaKe86:25 rounds? Must be strays then... U see, vulcans dish out 6000rpm.. Tat's 100 rounds per min? so 25 rounds wld have to be strays.. But still, if someone is to be popped by juz one round, the results wun be nice eh? 
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is it possible that the 26th round.. IA?Originally posted by dRaKe86:25 rounds? Must be strays then... U see, vulcans dish out 6000rpm.. Tat's 100 rounds per min? so 25 rounds wld have to be strays.. But still, if someone is to be popped by juz one round, the results wun be nice eh? -
Nah there must be a burst limit on the cannon, or else you will waste a lot of ammo on overkill at 6000rpm, like one squeeze 25 rds or so...
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Alrite, I remembered I went to an air force open house abt 2 years ago and I asked an F-16 Falcon pilot on the minigun.. He told me tat you can set the minigun to either 1500rpm or 6000rpm.. Normally they'd use 1500rpm as it doesnt burn up ammo tat much, but 6000rpm is needed for maximum strafing results..
And yes, 600 rounds per SECOND is really overkill.. the size of each bullet is already abt 6 inches long.. /me gulps.. juz getting 4 rounds is enuf to rip u in half..
Oh yeah, when skilled fighter pilots engage slower moving planes, all they do is maneuver behind the bogey, and squeeze the minigun trigger got 0.5 sec.. Normally tat releases abt 150 rounds and they aim for the cockpit area of the bogey.. US pilots have engaged and taken down bogeys b4 liddat..
Note: Pilots dun usually hold down the trigger for more than 3 seconds.. LoL! Overkill!