Fly Navy said:I would love to see a Mk84 detonated. Oh man, 2000lbs of joy.
Do we still use Mk81s? I know the Small Diameter Bomb is a 250lbs weapon.
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:Back in Bosnia, we carried a bunch of MK-20s (and MK 50 as well) and one time, we were about 30 seconds from dropping on this cigarette boat inbound to the CVN - KILL RDY and everything. Got called off at the last second.
Brett
Agreed...the S-3 only toted two at a time, but flying at Fallon and turning one loose made for a significant "thwump" and shake inside the plane as it turned loose. Can only imagine the jolt from dropping 4 at a time...A4sForever said:... 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 ....
Pardon my ignorance but what is the cloud of smoke before impact?Ryoukai said: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?
RHPF said:Pardon my ignorance but what is the cloud of smoke before impact?
RHPF said: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..
jarhead said:as for CAS, i'm not sure anybody in the world can do CAS as good as a Marine Cobra FAC(A)'n for Marine Harriers & Hornets ... just my opinion, and opinions of most Marine FACs i've talked with. now, if we could just talk the Marine Corps brass into buying the A-10 & AC-130's ...
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