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To: DFG

Time to start carrying door gunners with laser protective goggle and live ammo. They light your aircraft up with a laser perfectly justified response is to light them up with an M-60 oops showing my age.


6 posted on 10/09/2025 1:11:45 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: from occupied ga

With age comes wisdom, kid.


9 posted on 10/09/2025 1:21:30 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: from occupied ga

“justified response is to light them up with an M-60 oops showing my age.”

These are the droids you seek... That gimble sensor is hardened to laser light. Times to roll out the full weight of the American military on those in full insurrection of our government.

https://newatlas.com/autonomous-rotorcraft-sniper-system-packs-338-caliber-rifle-controlled-by-xbox-360-pad/11559/


15 posted on 10/09/2025 1:30:39 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: from occupied ga

Time to start carrying door gunners with laser protective goggle and live ammo

Why bother when cluster munitions work so much better and can be fired from 10s of miles away.


18 posted on 10/09/2025 1:33:29 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: from occupied ga
They light your aircraft up with a laser perfectly justified response is to light them up with an M-60 oops showing my age.

I've never seen a photo of the Mk47 Automatic Grenade Launcher mounted for a helicopter door gunner but I assume it would be easy enough to do.



55 posted on 10/09/2025 7:17:25 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: from occupied ga
Found a built-in one, the Philco-Ford M129 that was used in a few different helicopters in Vietnam:




56 posted on 10/09/2025 7:29:19 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: from occupied ga

How about “Puff the Magic Dragon?” I was a Towed Vulcan platoon leader in Germany. 3,000 rounds of 20mm ammunition can make a lot of noise.


63 posted on 10/10/2025 2:27:09 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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