Armed with .5mm machine guns?
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Armed with .5mm machine guns?
It initially had a belly pack of eight 50s.
Then the planes were changed to wingtip rocket pods of 2.75 FFARs. This would have been effective on bombers.
The next generation was the Voodoo, armed with a nuclear rocket. That would have been effective, too.
Then the planes were changed to wingtip rocket pods of 2.75 FFARs. This would have been effective on bombers.
The next generation was the Voodoo, armed with a nuclear rocket. That would have been effective, too.
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Yes, the Voodoo (CF-101) had a large rotary door under the cockpit flush with the underside of the belly. It had a pair of AIM4d conventional air to air weapons on one side and a single nuclear air to air weapon on the other side.
I still have a couple of gun logs from the aircraft. Crown Surplus in Calgary had a yard full. Brand new , M3s with a cyclic rate of 1000 rpm, fired for maintenance and testing, then torched. They sold for about 20. That's how government works.
Grizz
^^^Good documentary^^^
My good friend and sky diving buddy jumped on D Day with the Canadian Airborne. Peter Spencer didn’t talk too much about it other that to agree it was a cluster f**k. He later setup and started the Alberta Forest Service parachute division and was an accomplished sky diver. A real great guy and I was honoured to associate and jump with him. RIP Peter. !!!
My good friend and sky diving buddy jumped on D Day with the Canadian Airborne. Peter Spencer didn’t talk too much about it other that to agree it was a cluster f**k. He later setup and started the Alberta Forest Service parachute division and was an accomplished sky diver. A real great guy and I was honoured to associate and jump with him. RIP Peter. !!!
i always get a kick out of the difference between German and Allied jumping styles. Feet first and a back up chute seems a much better option.
Having enough time to enjoy the ride and the view and be able to cut away and go to the reserve if necessary is wonderful, so long as there's nobody on the ground who doesn't want you there and is good at skeet. Modern combat drops are low and fast for a reason.
It boggles the mind how short sighted our govt is. Yes, crate them up and put them in storage.
I picked up an empty SVT40 crate from SFRC about 6 or 7 years ago and finally got around to making a glass top and turning it into a milsurp display case. The crate has UA lettering on it and was stored in Ukraine for who knows how many years.
Leopard tanks same thing. Russians, on the other hand, never discard anything.
https://globalnews.ca/video/8480766/leopard-1-tanks-repurposed-in-vegreville
Grizz
Oh, short sighted for the nation, but there's always the long view for the politician. A case study would be Germany's defense minister from 2013-2019, who promised to "fix" Germany's military procurement system. She did so by funneling tens (hundreds) of millions of Defense budget $$ into no-bid consultancies, who flooded the Bundeswehr with endless reports on how they were mis-spending the money they weren't actually getting for equipment. Eventually, it ccame home to roost:
"Since 2018 an investigative committee organized by Germany's Federal Audit Office is looking into how contracts worth tens of millions of euros were awarded to external consultancy firms.[96][97][63] The auditing office has found several irregularities in how the contracts were awarded. During the investigation, two of von der Leyen's phones were confiscated, but data from both phones has been deleted before being returned to the defense ministry.[98] In turn, opposition lawmaker Tobias Linder has filed a criminal complaint against von der Leyen suspecting deliberate destruction of evidence relevant for the case."
Yet somehow, in spite of becoming an un-electable pariah in German electoral politics as a result, she's now possibly the most powerful politician in Europe:
Funny how that works. It isn't just Canada. In a great many countries, there's careers and $$ to be made by shafting the military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen#Military_procurement
Oh, short sighted for the nation, but there's always the long view for the politician. A case study would be Germany's defense minister from 2013-2019, who promised to "fix" Germany's military procurement system. She did so by funneling tens (hundreds) of millions of Defense budget $$ into no-bid consultancies, who flooded the Bundeswehr with endless reports on how they were mis-spending the money they weren't actually getting for equipment. Eventually, it ccame home to roost:
"Since 2018 an investigative committee organized by Germany's Federal Audit Office is looking into how contracts worth tens of millions of euros were awarded to external consultancy firms.[96][97][63] The auditing office has found several irregularities in how the contracts were awarded. During the investigation, two of von der Leyen's phones were confiscated, but data from both phones has been deleted before being returned to the defense ministry.[98] In turn, opposition lawmaker Tobias Linder has filed a criminal complaint against von der Leyen suspecting deliberate destruction of evidence relevant for the case."
Yet somehow, in spite of becoming an un-electable pariah in German electoral politics as a result, she's now possibly the most powerful politician in Europe:
Funny how that works. It isn't just Canada. In a great many countries, there's careers and $$ to be made by shafting the military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen#Military_procurement
In the end, the populace will get shafted , when the military can't do it's job.
Grizz
