Still partial to the P51 Mustang myself! Jeff Broadwick ConVergence Technologies, Inc. 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@converge-tech.com
> On Apr 3, 2016, at 11:50 PM, Jay Weekley <par...@cyberbroadband.net> wrote: > > That would be awesome to see. I always thought the F4 was the baddest > looking airplane ever made. No matter from what angle you looked, it's > profile said "whoop ass". > > Cameron Crum wrote: >> Kind of like carpet bombing. My dad was an F4 pilot in Vietnam. He has some >> cool 8mm footage he took after dropping some cluster bombs and then went >> inverted to film it. One was hitting an enemy ammo depot for which he >> received the Distinguished Flying Cross. >> >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Cameron Crum <cc...@wispmon.com >> <mailto:cc...@wispmon.com>> wrote: >> >> I'm all for precision guided munitions, but nothing says we've >> come to kick some ass like shelling an enemy position with the >> 16in guns from a battleship. Talk about demoralizing the enemy. >> >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Josh Reynolds >> <j...@kyneticwifi.com <mailto:j...@kyneticwifi.com>> wrote: >> >> Systems like that don't exist so much... At least, there are >> no guns of that size on a battleship that I'm aware of (16"). >> >> I know there are much smaller systems now for certain classes >> of warships. When I was going through my joint fires naval >> training we talked about a bunch of systems (that are now >> public knowledge). One of the newer naval guns has a 40+ >> nautical mile range and GPS guided round - similar to the >> Excalibur artillery round. Those are mostly automated systems. >> >> If I remember right, a full battery salvo from an Iowa class >> battleship on a surface target could spread out the round >> impact locations to create a 1Km x 1Km "casualty box". I >> always wanted the opportunity to employ that system :P >> >> On Apr 3, 2016 10:23 AM, "David Milholen" <dmilho...@wletc.com >> <mailto:dmilho...@wletc.com>> wrote: >> >> What an AWEsome piece of history. >> I wonder how many of those systems are completely >> automated and how much faster reload time is ? >> >> >>> On 4/3/2016 1:59 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: >>> https://youtu.be/_wT1xkRpCKk >>> >>> I love this stuff. >> >> -- >
