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.
With age comes wisdom, kid.
“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.
Time to start carrying door gunners with laser protective goggle and live ammo
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Why bother when cluster munitions work so much better and can be fired from 10s of miles away.
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.
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.