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To: NormsRevenge
The APKWS II is a 2.75-inch laser-guided rocket that will provide crews of the U.S. Army Apache and Marine Corps Cobra attack helicopters and other platforms with precision-strike capability against non-armored targets that do not require a 7-inch HELLFIRE missile an option not presently available.
2 posted on
02/15/2006 10:34:48 AM PST by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Shoulda gone with Brimstone. Hellfire & Brimstone makes a cool sounding weapons package to hang off the wing an Apache.
Hellfire Jr. sounds like something off the dollar menu at a drive-through.
3 posted on
02/15/2006 10:40:24 AM PST by
Sax
To: NormsRevenge
Hellfire Jr.? How about... HellBoy
10 posted on
02/15/2006 10:45:39 AM PST by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: NormsRevenge
Just as a curiosity for the technogeeks out there, but if one put up a smoke-screen opaque to the laser, would the system be able to target?
11 posted on
02/15/2006 10:45:54 AM PST by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: NormsRevenge
16 posted on
02/15/2006 10:51:36 AM PST by
VOA
To: NormsRevenge
Hellfire means never having to say you're sorry.
19 posted on
02/15/2006 10:54:41 AM PST by
WardMClark
(Semi-Notorious Political Gadfly)
To: NormsRevenge
HELLFIRE® Junior Disclaimer: The HELLFIRE® Junior is not affiliated with or associated with Freeper® Junior.
25 posted on
02/15/2006 11:07:14 AM PST by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: NormsRevenge
I'm sure this will be another in a long line of Army munitions success stories. The Hellfire is so reliable and deadly that ALL of the US Armed Forces have adopted it as an anti-tank/anti-armor/anti-bunker weapon for a wide variety of platforms.
GO ARMY!!!
27 posted on
02/15/2006 11:10:53 AM PST by
SJSAMPLE
To: NormsRevenge
"This long series of successful tests has validated key design and performance discriminators, demonstrating the unequalled maturity and lowest risk of our solution"
God, I hate PR writing.
To: NormsRevenge
I'm just thinking that the Apache could carry 76 of these puppies instead of a 16 Hellfire loadout.
That's some serious pinpoint killing power.
39 posted on
02/15/2006 2:18:04 PM PST by
Centurion2000
("If you're going to shoot somebody, Shoot! Don't talk!")
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