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Mk-82's
- Thread starter Scab
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Fly Navy said:
The CV/CVS AirWngs used to strap Mk-81's on the Stoofs for ASW --- don't know about today. (edit: A-4's and Spads also occasionally carried them --don't know about land based VP applications).
2000 pounds of joy ??? How about times 4 !!!
The first time I dropped 4 x Mk-84's on a target ... coming downhill at something close to a 60 degree dive (the F-4 TARCAP said we wre going "straight down" in the debrief --- I duno about that but it was well over the standard, practiced 45 degrees-- the pucker factor was high) , 500 KIAS, and when I pickled the bombs the aircraft jumped so violently with the instantaneous salvo release of 8000 pounds of ordnance that my B/N yelled "Sh!t !!! Sh!t!!! Sh!t !!! We've been hit"!!! It rhymed ....
We hadn't, but you could have fooled me, also.
If memory serves, some other aircraft that used the Mk-81 were the Vietnamese T-28's, Royal Cambodian AF Mig-17's, and USAF F-111's and SOS A-26's flying out of NKP ... I'm sure there were others (Mk-81) and will be many more modern applications of slick/dumb Mk-80 series bombs in these days of JDAM add-on "kits".
... come on now ... you know you love 'em ...
Ryoukai
The Chief doesn't like cheeky humor...at all
Does anybody have love for the BLU-96? That thing is like porn...ok, so slightly different, but you get the idea.
Honey, did you feel a breeze?
Honey, did you feel a breeze?
I'll do you one better - flying over there w/ live torps + a British sub that showed up w/ out notice in the Adriatic = itchy trigger thumbs. Nothing like splitting the SS3 duty time and being woken up from a dead sleep to be asked "You remember how to do acoustic analysis, right?" (flying as a SS3 in a temp SS2 billet, splitting the time w/ my crew's original SS3). S-3 AW = multi-sensor...Brett327 said:
Now that's good times...
Ahh, thats pretty sweet. I wasnt sure if it was like a prototype drawing I saw years back (probably im Pop. Mechanics or something) about ordinance that would essentially shoot (like a cannon) a warhead close to the ground in order to penetrate the earth deeper. Thanks for the info..
RHPF said:
Sounds like your thinking of the BLU-107 Durandal. Its a 330lbs explosive warhead that drops by parachute causing the weapon to slow down and go nose down and then when within the nose is completely down the rocket motor fires driving it through the concrete into the dirt below. The Warhead is time delayed so that it goes off under the runway concrete causing the surface to buckle and shift instead of just making a big crater. Its harder to fix where a big hole can just be filled and covered. Easier said then done, but a lot easier then fixing what a Durandal will do.
