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Posted: 4/16/2024 11:55:18 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Missilegeek]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Paul: The difference is the CWIS is computer controlled using an agile mount and a pair of radars, one tracking the target, the other tracking the rounds. This. Overall, a flying CIWS is not a terrible concept. Putting R2D2 sideways or upside down on a C-130 seems more plausible. Your real problem is the USAF is not interested in doing anything other than shooting down enemy fighter aircraft. So they won't buy or build anything that isn't primarily engineered to do that. What weapons the enemy actually has and uses is irrelevant to the zipper suits. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:01:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:07:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:29:12 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Houstons_Problem]
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Fixed forward firing gun is miserable compared to an R2D2 gun turret.
A large fast drone with an R2D2 mounted on top and bottom might provide a roving point defense. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:40:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Pesty: I'm sure I read in here about an A10 getting an air to air kill on a helicopter in a gulf war I may have dreamed that though I also remember a pilot that had parachuted in WW2 getting an air kill with his 1911 on an enemy pilot that was strafing him as he hung from the chute. War creates necessities. Necessities can create extraordinary events. Extraordinary events aren't the basis for effective combat operations. GD get's ridiculous about the A10's gun and fixed forward firing guns on fixed wing fighters and attack aircraft in general. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 2:55:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SBR300BLK: People fantasize about shredding bomber formations with that gun all the time. Get it in War thunder and have fun. It's not gonna happen at scale irl. I go out of my way to bully A-10s flying an A-4N in War Thunder. They are so fat and slow, they look so sad and pathetic dumping flares and turning hopelessly as I apply 30mm. If I miss, oh well they have no more energy so I just go in to the vertical and fall in right behind them again. Dumb slow planes are free RP. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 5:35:05 AM EDT
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It wouldn't need even a 50 cal or sidewinder.
A single 7.62 machine gun on a drone would do it. Or develop a cheap anti-drone missile launched from a drone. A heatseaker that flies at mach 1 with a 1 mile range and 1 pound warhead is all you need. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 9:37:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Gurthy: Marine 1 is a helicopter And a Christmas ornament… |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 9:39:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By m200maker: An A-10 with today’s technology would be the shotgun in the sky. An absolute drone killer. It would be a slow, shitty, inefficient way to do it. The speed alone would make it difficult to respond to multiple drones. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:35:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mcantu: Shaheds only cruise at about 115mph. An A-10 flies slow enough that it could just settle in behind one with plenty of time to get it in the funnel for a gun kill Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mcantu: Originally Posted By mcantu: https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/images/2/23/HUD_AIR_ANNOTATED.png A conga line of bomb drones with some air-to-air drones mixed in sounds like an easy way to stack up A-10 corpses if anyone tried that. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:37:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SBR300BLK: People fantasize about shredding bomber formations with that gun all the time. Get it in War thunder and have fun. It's not gonna happen at scale irl. Get 3 in Warthunder and make it rain 
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:44:24 AM EDT
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I read that as “Can an AR-10 engage air targets?” So I’m thinking, Well, if they’re low enough…
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