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Mechanic ‘Accidentally’ Fires Vulcan Cannon & Obliterates F-16 Sitting on the Runway
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| Mar 19, 2020
| George Winston
Posted on 03/20/2020 7:08:53 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: SunkenCiv
I think we're doomed.....
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posted on
03/20/2020 8:56:09 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
To: Lazamataz
Spray and pray...I’d rather have the Russian 30.mm.
122
posted on
03/20/2020 8:56:39 AM PDT
by
Mashood
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
That should come out of his paycheck.For 15 million years.
123
posted on
03/20/2020 9:07:12 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
To: Right Wing Assault
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posted on
03/20/2020 9:09:28 AM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, ad that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
To: null and void
Why? Did they not have their sheaths?Which "they?"
To: libertylover
I worked in the Autopilot Shop. I can’t imagine that any shop with training and QA would let someone like you describe near an aircraft.
126
posted on
03/20/2020 9:19:45 AM PDT
by
Arones
(When Leftists are in a minority, then they look for other ways to win.)
To: Lazamataz
That’s going to come up in his annual performance review.
127
posted on
03/20/2020 9:20:10 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: niteowl77
No Papua New Guinea man would ever consider leaving his hut without his penis sheath. That and a few feathers is about all they wore back then, and for all I know it’s still that way...
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posted on
03/20/2020 9:24:31 AM PDT
by
null and void
(By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
To: pepsi_junkie
This year.
Next year it will say Cpl Micheal’s performance has improved, he didn’t destroy any aircraft!
129
posted on
03/20/2020 9:26:40 AM PDT
by
null and void
(By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
To: Vermont Lt
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posted on
03/20/2020 9:48:20 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: bert
131
posted on
03/20/2020 9:58:44 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Spruce; Lazamataz
"That must be one LOUD SOB!: It is.
While I was on the .45 familiarization range at Lowry AFB, the instructor had to pause several times because of an extremely loud "foghorn-like" noise emanating from a bunker a couple of hundred yards away.
He explained that the sound was was "only the armorers remotely firing test bursts while they are 'tuning up' 20mm Vulcan cannon".
Firing at 6,000 rounds per minute, (100 rounds per second) it was producing a continuous 100 Hz tone -- composed of very loud individual explosions...
Even at that distance -- wearing hearing protection and and shielded by the bunker, I could feel the vibrations through my entire body. No wonder that maintenance troop -- only feet from that cacophony -- was, ...suffering from noise related effects!
I don't know about the F-16, but the A-10's 30mm GAU-8 is equipped with a safety switch on the nose gear strut -- so that the gun is "safed" while the weight of the A/C is resting on the ground.
Obviously, that Vulcan wasn't "safed"...
TXnMA
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posted on
03/20/2020 10:09:00 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
(Anagram: "PANDEMIC --> DEM PANIC")
To: Lazamataz
I think Vulcans are exclusively A-10 Warthog ordnance.Negative. The M61 Vulcan is the 20mm Gatling-style cannon. The M134 Minigun is the 7.62mm version.
The A-10 uses the GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm Gatline-style cannon.
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posted on
03/20/2020 10:15:32 AM PDT
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
To: Lazamataz
I’m guessing that guy won’t have weekend leave.
134
posted on
03/20/2020 10:17:01 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
To: Hulka
Yeah, the 20mm pop-gun is cute (said the former A-10 fighter pilot).I guess this means you wouldn't mind getting shot in the foot with a 20mm 'pop-gun,' eh?
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posted on
03/20/2020 10:17:32 AM PDT
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Nope. . .don’t you know, we Hog Pilots are invincible.
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posted on
03/20/2020 10:58:49 AM PDT
by
Hulka
To: markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...
To: Lazamataz
138
posted on
03/20/2020 11:17:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Lazamataz
John McCain doesn’t have a grandson in the military, does he?
To: NonValueAdded
A lick of paint, a lick of paint Love, ORiley"If the God Lord"
"Is mentioned once more, I shall send you closer to him."
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posted on
03/20/2020 11:18:35 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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