We need story time on this
Not much to tell. Hurricane relief... frustrated residents. Shots fired. Found out on post flight on two separate incidents.
We need story time on this
One high-speed ejection + One self-assembled rifle + 120 rounds of ammunition ➗ 15 DGAF “in shaa Allah” Infantry = One dead pilot.
Survival and Evasion come first.
So you would have to find the seat to get the weapon?
The seat pan, or rather the box of goodies under the seat pan, is usually on a lanyard that is several feet long and attached to your parachute harness. So if they figure out how to stuff an M-4 into the pan (!?), or more likely give it its own lanyard, then it would be easy to retrieve.So you would have to find the seat to get the weapon?
The seat pan attaches to your butt. Well, it sits under your butt and is attached to the fittings on your harness.
I also think all of this negativity is dumb. If I'm going to go out I'm going to try to take out as many bad dudes as I can and not just shoot myself in the head. If I'm evading, I'd rather have something other than a pistol just in case my evading isn't going so well.
A thought: The majority of GOs at Corona level in the USAF are command rated pilots. i.e. Most of their top decision makers have gone to work in an ejection seat before.So why is USAF executing a multi million dollar program to put a rifle and ammo in every pointy nose ejection seat? I mean this sincerely- what do we in Naval Aviation know that AF doesn’t - or conversely does AF know something we don’t ?
A thought: The majority of GOs at Corona level in the USAF are command rated pilots. i.e. Most of their top decision makers have gone to work in an ejection seat before.
How so? Which conflicts in the last 30 years have had USAF TACAIR and not USN TACAIR? Desert Storm? Nope. Northern/Southern Watch? Nope. Bosnia, Allied Force? Nope. OEF? Nope. OIF? Nope. OIR? Nope.Naval Aviation decision makers have less experience in combat operations than their AF GO peers
I think the negativity has nothing to do with having a decent tool at your disposal, should the low-percentage need arise. But instead the negativity is along the same lines where someone like yourself advocates pushing money in the direction a widget with a much higher-percentage of use instead of a "nice to have, when or if we ever need it."