Posted on 03/10/2008 6:00:21 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
A BRITISH soldier who almost single-handedly took on 150 Taliban after he and his 50-man convoy were ambushed in Afghanistan has been awarded the Military Cross.
Fusilier Damien Hields used his grenade machinegun to destroy seven Taliban positions before his ambushers realised he was their main threat. After peppering his vehicle with bullets, they hit the 24-year-old soldier. He had to be dragged off for treatment by his driver after he tried to continue fighting.
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Of course 7.62 cal = 7.62 MM
Getting old is a bitch, but it sure as hell beats the alternative!
four of the M85s on fastfire
What would the effective range be?
Thank you.
Jackalopes fear our security !***
Have you or any of the crew been to the Long mountain M134 users/armourers school? It's really outstanding.
What would the effective range be?***
About the same as any of the .50 x 99 caliber M2 .50s, around 3KM, though during WWII and Korea, M16 quad fifties were sometimes used for indirect H&I fires at night using the M1 gunner's quadrant, particularly around bridges and mountain pass chokepoints. Any tracers in the usual 1-5 mix burned out at the usual 1200-1500 meter distance, and all that the recipients noticed was a slight whirring in the air, and maybe the first few impacts of nearby incoming rounds hitting the ground before one with their name on it arrived.
But for direct fire, around 2.5-3 KM, again with tracer burnout at around 1200 meters. In tank gunnery school we were taught that 9 hits of .50 on a softskinned truck [deuce-and a half or thereabouts] was considered to be sufficiently likely to result in ruining something vital and resulting in a mobility kill.
Sometimes also seen written as 7,62 mm, and on some ammo crate markings as 7/62mm. About the only likely source for confusion would be in naval gunnery, where caliber is also used to express barrel length in relation to projectile diameter, as with the US 3-inch, 50 cal and the 5-inch 25cal. guns- a 7.62 caliber naval piece would have a really short tube, like a mountain howitzer. I suppose the Soviet 76.2mm AT gun caliber could become an easy typo goof, too.
Getting old is a bitch, but it sure as hell beats the alternative!
Surely reasonable people with differing viewpoints can find some middle position and compromise!
Last school for the minigun I attended was for the old GAU2B GE version . We have armorers that have been to a few schools for the new dillon versions , not sure which or where !
I will ask !
I loved the M60 !
I have related the story before as to how we welded up the front and rear parts of the receiver that caused runaways or failure to fire etc !! We had some custom op rods with dual sear notches etc ....all the wear points were case hardened and ceramic coated like the sear and such .......
Beau Coup Pucker Factor Belts were nooooooooo problem !
Great memories !
Stay safe RR !
I will ask !
Long Mountain's M134 3-day course runs around $1200, last I checked. Everyone I know who's been through it says it's a bargain. [I checked, it costs $1195 now.
Gratuitous 15-second M134 burst vid: M134 Skool Shooting"
FYI, they've got a 2-day course for the M60 *pig* MG as well, at $450.
I had the word pig in my original post , feared Eaker would bring up his animal husbandry degree or something !.....:o)
Last school I will ever need is on the M60. I can operate and maintain that in my sleep !
Circa 1979-80 when I was a Navy civilian armorer we rebuilt some M60 MGs for one of the Navy's SEAL teams prior to one of their working beachfront vacations in a then-busy Central American country. My contribution was the application of a vinyl phenolic/teflon coating to the op rods, sears, bolt innards and the recoil spring's *knitting needle* guide, which both increased the saltwater corrosion resistance of the parts and increased the guns' [four for 15 guys] cyclic rate a tad. The material used was the same stuff we were at that time using on turbine engine blades to try to get a little longer life out of them.
It apparantly worked- when they got back, a couple of them armtwisted me into similarly working over some of their personal handguns. Though they weren't as fond of the M60s as they had been their previously-used Mk23 Stoners, the extra power and range of the 7.62 was appreciated by them, and the high-speed coatings kept their whining to a minimum.
There must have been some kind of termite problem down that way- those guns came back with barrels a LOT shorter than when they'd left.
Oh yeah? What's the red button on the bottom for?
Eh ?
trigger group ? safety ?
Bottom of the handguard ???
what red button on whos bottom ?..........:o)
Same ceramic coating I believe we used. I have a snub Mod 37 airweight that was done with it as well........Used it as an ankle rig backup when I was a deputy and on road trips. No oil or lube meant no dust bunnies or dirt . Good stuff !
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/m-60-machinegun-glowing-red-1500-round-burst/50084456
I do believe the title is short a few thousand rounds.....:o)
15k maybe ....not 1500 !
Bottom of the handguard ???
what red button on whos bottom ?..........:o)
HehHehHeh. Gotcha!
15k maybe ....not 1500 !
At LEAST 1500....certainly more than I have fingers and toes with which to count. Lots!
As many as there are buffalo on the plains, or eager sweeties at the roller rink. Many.
Doh !
I had a hunch.......:o)
After I learned how to apply the stuff [in airframe and powerplant school circa '75-"76, same time as I learned how to Magnaflux] I did that for the Navy in the Crane small arms shop for a while, and did it as an outside contractor for a while afterward. Among other projects, I did George Nonte's Ingram MAC 10 and a .44 AutoMag before he passed away, and any number of allow-framed handguns whose anodizing had worn, including almost a thousand Illinois State Police M39 S&Ws.
And, around that time, there were some local cops who talked to me real nice, and I redid their worn-finish aluminum D-cell Kel-lights and B-lights, in a day before the Mag-light folks were in business yet. Some of those big aluminum flashlights had somehow developed teeth marks on 'em....
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