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The Grinch Closes Gatwick Airport
- Thread starter Flash
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This is why the real money is in C-UAS.
Did someone call for the Growler rep?
"Bogey's airspeed insufficient for intercept. Recommend we get out and walk."
"If the tennis rackets don't get you, the pool skimmers will."
My idea: det cord net guns for the MH-60S. Shoot the net, roll away, trigger remote detonator.
No, seriously. Makes WAY more sense for you all to do it. I argued this on deployment. Our sensors actually make us a poor choice, and who's always within xx miles of the HVU?And then it will only be a matter of time before the MH-60R takes over this mission.
How hard would it be to get another drone and run it into the offending drone? Like, spend a couple thousand on a souped up enforcer drone, put some POV cameras on it, and set ramming speed.
Bonus points for a little Cirrus parachute so you can repair and reuse...
Bonus points for a little Cirrus parachute so you can repair and reuse...
At some point in that shitshow I’m sure they were actively trying to catch the asshole responsible for it- DFing, dragnet with lots of cops, public surveillance cameras, who knows.
When they do catch the guy, I hope they let him go right away- but publish his picture and his home address.
When they do catch the guy, I hope they let him go right away- but publish his picture and his home address.
I sent a -60S up against an inbound LSF this year. It was pretty eye-opening. Definitely something we should all train to better. We need helo AICs
That disappoints me. I did plenty of LSF intercepts in the 60S and never seemed to have a problem; really enjoyed them, escorting a Panda or similar out of the carrier's airspace.
This thing popped up (late detection), so it happened relatively quickly. IIRC, they took a vector from their controller on the CVN (who didn't have good SA on the LSF track). The helo bustered out there right past the LSF, they CPA'd at ~1nm with a few thousand feet altitude difference and didn't see it (they though it was farther out). Not any fault of the aircrew, without sensors on board they were completely reliant on the controller; I've heard C5F deployers train to this a lot more (for good reason), but we were caught pretty flat footed and learned from it.
Back in my 60F days, I was launched twice on alert for LSFs. For those who don't know, 60F did not have radar, FLIR, or Link, so yeah... we needed a good AIC.