I mean, both being of the Vietnam era, had a similar purpose:
I think it is visible in one of the visuals or cross sections, I didn’t include it because I didn’t know if it was early models only.
Ahh, so it would be capable of mounting it, it’s just the question of, did it mount it.
20mm gun and CCIP Zuni’s would be extremely good for CAS.
I’d be extremely excited to play this in simulator battles, it would be super fun.
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I think this might be the XM14; an M3 .50 cal with 750 rounds of ammo
Possibly, looks right when you look at the M60C and then the pod, probably is, but looks too round from that photo.
The other option would be the XM13 40mm gunpod, which uses an XM75 Grenade launcher of which the internals look like;
and mounted in a Turret as the M5 40mm
Which would explain the geometry, but the barrel is short and isn’t ported as in the image. I’m not entirely sure but it was apparently flown on the (J)OV-1A Mohawk. Maybe a comparison to one of the experimental helicopter turret installations (AH-1 or UH-1) may help narrow things down since the internals should be similar, its likely the same basic pod as the XM-14 though.
Odd prototype bronco with 105mm recoiless rifle found
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For Operation desert Storm? I didn’t know it had the “JDAM” type conversion kit to guide the Hydra 70’s, maybe more digging I could find something.
Desert Storm was an observation job iirc.
I am talking about the trials vs ISIS in the 2010s where they used laserguided rockets to strike insurgency groups helping iirc Kurd forces on the ground.
Ah, makes more sense
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Added:
BLU Mk.27B (NAPALM-B)
Mk.82 Low-drag bomb (HE)
CBU-55 Air-fuel explosive bombs (cluster)
The CBU-55 & -72 are one of those weapons that, at least to me seem like something you would want to keep away from props and Helicopters as best you could but.
An example of a BLU-96 (2000lb FAE) which uses the same fuel
What’s the main fireball from?
I think CBU could be locked from being used in GRB, but, it’s needed in ARB and SIM.
Depending on the year of production either propane, or later the much improved ethylene oxide vapors being ignited.
Maybe at lower tiers, an alternate method would be to only implement non-armor penetrating(Anti-Personnel / -Material), or lower count submunitions (e.g. CBU-87 in place of CBU-99). Or only dispensers, not Cluster bombs so they can’t be lofted and require overflight of the target to be effective
So it’s releases gasses from the canisters and burns rapidly enough to create a “explosion”
Sort of. The reason that they are much more powerful for a given weight class (vs other warhead designs), is that since they are designed to use atmospheric oxygen as the oxidizer in the reaction they can freely dedicate their entire weight / volume to carrying just the fuel. as they are designed to disperse / atomize the fuel at some height above the ground and then after it mixes and spreads sufficiently with the air, ignite the mixture.
Which of course has explosive results, this of course causes a massive pressure wave, on the order of 40x the store’s fuel weight in TNT, which when compounded with the Airburst unalive’s things in a very big radius, its very effective against manned structures and fortifications as the pressure spike & later drop can have a deadly impact on anything that has lungs since they really don’t deal with it too well even at an extended distance even including those outside direct line of sight.
The reason why they are specialist stores is that they are incredibly sensitive to dispersal & ignition timings, and release conditions and so have a tendency to not do much if something goes wrong.
I remember reading World War Z and towards the beginning the military used all its fancy stuff, including fuel air bombs. One of the soldiers (book is written as a series of interviews after zombie war by a journalist) recounts how any zombie with lungs hanging from their mouth was a “veteran” of that battle
Pretty genius and ahead of its time actually.