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doggone
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PostPosted: 17:09 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Anyone seen our missile Reply with quote
https://news.sky.com/story/apache-attack-helicopter-mistakenly-opens-fire-at-suffolk-army-base-12125224

Heads will roll for this, it shouldn't have been put away with munitions on board partly for this reason.
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PostPosted: 17:17 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wish I could draw cartoons. I'd have some irate bloke hobbling up to a military base main gate, angrily pointing at the missile fins poking out of his arse Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:43 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's gotta be the ultimate Naughty Dennis Laughing

Hope someone is a fan of Colchester Laughing Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:45 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
I wish I could draw cartoons. I'd have some irate bloke hobbling up to a military base main gate, angrily pointing at the missile fins poking out of his arse Laughing
if it hit the missus like that they'd never get it back....
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PostPosted: 18:32 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 19:16 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Have we got any RAF guys? I thought live munitions on jets and choppers were meant to have safety pins with little red flags when on the deck... or have I been watching too much Hollywood shite?
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wr6133
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PostPosted: 20:00 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
I thought live munitions on jets and choppers were meant to have safety pins with little red flags when on the deck... or have I been watching too much Hollywood shite?


If it was the 30mm it'll be similar to what us peasants had in Warrior for our antique Rarden cannons. Basically a giant brass casing with either a HE (yellow) or AP (black) tip. Practice rounds are blue tipped and don't contain a proper Sabot.

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I suspect it was the 30mm, a rocket would have done some real damage
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PostPosted: 21:22 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
This sort of thing will become the norm in the US before Biden karks it as he'll forget which way he should be pointing his weapons.
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PostPosted: 21:38 - 06 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
I thought live munitions on jets and choppers were meant to have safety pins with little red flags when on the deck... or have I been watching too much Hollywood shite?

The article doesn't make it clear whether the 'helicopter's malfunction during a live firing (practice) round' was related to the weapon but it could be similar to the Red Arrows' ground ejection of 2011 which was due to a design fault with the safety pin. The pin was inserted but didn't prevent an inadvertent activation.
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PostPosted: 10:04 - 07 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
Easy-X wrote:
I thought live munitions on jets and choppers were meant to have safety pins with little red flags when on the deck... or have I been watching too much Hollywood shite?

The article doesn't make it clear whether the 'helicopter's malfunction during a live firing (practice) round' was related to the weapon but it could be similar to the Red Arrows' ground ejection of 2011 which was due to a design fault with the safety pin. The pin was inserted but didn't prevent an inadvertent activation.


If I remember correctly, the bolts holding on the seat had been overtightened.
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PostPosted: 13:48 - 07 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
wr6133 wrote:


I suspect it was the 30mm, a rocket would have done some real damage


In fairness, most things not specifically armour plated that get hit by a 30mm cannon round (regardless of projectile type) land up with a large hole all the way through them.

One would suspect if they are calling it an ND instead of a malfunction that someone had their booger hook on the bang-switch was making pew-pew noises when shit got real. No sprinkles on their sponge pudding for the rest of the week then...
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