Yeah, fuck the 50 cal if they had wanted to blow those assholes out of the water…
I have a story about that and Haitian refugees…
Make a list…
One can imagine the US fleet unloading on all the Iranian RG boats and ships in the area…
It will probably eventually happen.
No way.
They would get blown out of the water.
Pearls before swine
That’s only because you’re used to buying your own ammo, you cheapskate landlubber.
Davy Jones’ locker is lined with lead and bones.
5" guns are not forgiving. HE on that shit, and there’s just a hole in the ocean where the boat used to be.
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea, there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea… There’s a hole, there’s a hole, there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea.
There’s a dead Iranian next to the hole in the bottom of the sea…
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The ayatollah and his Islamacist cohorts really did incalculable damage to that country.
The average Iranian is a friendly warm hearted family man in comparison to the average American in my experience but their religious dogma promotes so much specialized discrimination and bigotry that renders their country broken at the international level. I had an Iranian wingman for awhile and he was one of the funniest and funnest party animals I ever knew. I think he’s a bigwig at Amazon now.
Their national theocratic propaganda promotes the worst kind of international violence against all other populations and governments.
Yeah, those 5" ers are auto-loading and firing, right?
oh, 16-20 rounds per minute in automatic mode. 13 NM range…
Yep, that’s a world of hurt for something within a few hundred yards…
Not to mention those CIWS that go BRRRRRRT
CIWS is a defensive weapon which is limited to tracking targets that meet certain specific criteria which you can probably look up, but I’m too lazy to see if my knowledge exceeds classification.
The old-school 5" guns were not fully automatic; usually 2 guys in the turret managing shit, the powder kegs and the projectiles are separate items, it’s not a cartridge-type firearm. Not sure on improvements since my day.
(edit) and as far as fire control goes, no, there’s actually a couple people involved, depending on the mission. For example, I ran NGFS; would take a call from a Marine on the beach, convert his coordinates to something more digestible by fire control, confirm on my own charts, and then call down the instructions. So, at least 5 people involved just to “pull the trigger,” one time.
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I watched video of fully automatic 5" guns…they also now have a automatic 76mm gun…
Yeah, I was just reading. There’s a full auto mode; also wiki says 6 guys down there in normal operation, that’s not counting “me” or the grunt on the beach. I should have known that, it’s probably somewhere in my ESWS qual book, which is another one of those things buried deep in a box in a box, probably in the garage.
Oh, man, when those powder kegs would get kicked out, they would fuck up the non-skid on the deck. BMs hated that shit. You can see one, here, bottom middle just near the VLS and red warning line.
Another interesting fact is that you could get concussed from being too near one of these when it fires.
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Why are some weapons designated in mm and others in inches?
Or both? How about both?
The military has been using metric for some time, it’s a NATO thing,maybe?
Newer cartridges (Post WW2?) got metric designations in the military (like 7.62x51mm NATO and 5.56x45mm), but the commercial versions, .308 Winchester and .223 Remington, are in SAE due to marketing in the USA.
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Entire fun, exciting history of naval ordnance nomenclature porn here:
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/Gun_Data.php
For even better porn, see weapons measured in kilowatts like the MK 2 MOD 0, perfect for incinerating small Iranian speedboats.
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Do you think the army will keep the taliban from taking over again?
Ideological extremism gives them an advantage and they control an army as well equipped as the ANA
The rump airforce is small and pilots are getting assassinated when off duty so without air support it’s going to be a long slog of a civil war
Probably we will see drone strikes in the news, in the near future.
Cost effective I suppose
One commentator on the BBC reckons the people will resist the taliban, though I think there would be a rural/urban divide on this
I feel like the Taliban would still be squalled away in the mountains, dying away, if not for Pakistan. I’m not sure why they prop them up.