Can anybody tell me what the benefit is for a Blackhawk pilot to fire blank rounds from the 105 mm Howitzer at night in a major U.S. city?
If you're talking about the blanks heard on the video... I'm not sure, but I doubt it was a 105 howitzer.
105's can fire somewhere between 3 and 10 rounds per minute.
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If you're talking about the blanks heard on the video... I'm not sure, but I doubt it was a 105 howitzer.
105's can fire somewhere between 3 and 10 rounds per minute.
What ever they armed it with, it wasn't a cap gun. Question still remains, what benefit is firing blanks to the pilot? Can't the pilot train their sights on a target without the blank rounds being fired and get the same results?
What ever they armed it with, it wasn't a cap gun. Question still remains, what benefit is firing blank to the pilot? Can't the pilot train their sights on a target without the blank rounds being fired and get the same results?
Cic... if you lived near an Marine Base you would be used to this kind of thing. Do you see the C130's flying out of Stratton Air Guard Base, flying over head??? Do they intimidate you??? Or like most people in the area, they are used to them and hardly pay attention to them.
If you are going to "practice"... then you make your "practice" as close to the actual thing as possible. I'm sure you've seen EMT drills where they will stage a highway accident with multiple bloody bodies strewn all over the highway, Right? They could just practice with no bodies and no fake blood and no fake wounds, but to get close to the real thing in practice helps the real thing go smoother.
Your lack of any kind of military experience surprises me even today Cic... Ask a relative who served in the Marines... maybe they can enlighten you.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
It's interesting also that it looks like first one is a Sikorsky Blackhawk, but the 2 that follow look more like small Bell copters.
It's a joint military and police practice... maybe the following two were police aircraft???
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
It's a joint military and police practice... maybe the following two were police aircraft???
that's F'en reassuring.....wonder when godzilla shows up...oh wait..godzilla will be at proctors on friday, I bet there's going to be a stripper party for his arrival
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Cic... if you lived near an Marine Base you would be used to this kind of thing. Do you see the C130's flying out of Stratton Air Guard Base, flying over head??? Do they intimidate you??? Or like most people in the area, they are used to them and hardly pay attention to them.
If you are going to "practice"... then you make your "practice" as close to the actual thing as possible. I'm sure you've seen EMT drills where they will stage a highway accident with multiple bloody bodies strewn all over the highway, Right? They could just practice with no bodies and no fake blood and no fake wounds, but to get close to the real thing in practice helps the real thing go smoother.
Your lack of any kind of military experience surprises me even today Cic... Ask a relative who served in the Marines... maybe they can enlighten you.
Great, maybe the next exercise will include abandon cars on I-95 rigged with pyrotechnics that they can explode to simulate Hellfire missiles. Then for added effect, they can have soldiers pissing on the bloody bodies strewn all over the highway. All in the name of public safety of course.
They don't see a problem flying military choppers over a populated city and letting off machine gun bursts, good way to scare the crap out of people but maybe that is the goal. This reminds me of the story I read right after the Sandy shooting where police busted into a school and started firing blanks while the school was occupied, none of the teachers or students were aware this was going to take place. The response was it was for training purposes but why would you scare kids half to death by making them think there was a active shooter in the school. These are the fcking retards that are supposed to protect us, yeah right.
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They don't see a problem flying military choppers over a populated city and letting off machine gun bursts, good way to scare the crap out of people but maybe that is the goal. This reminds me of the story I read right after the Sandy shooting where police busted into a school and started firing blanks while the school was occupied, none of the teachers or students were aware this was going to take place. There response was it was for training purposes but why would you scare kids half to death by making them think there was a active shooter in the school. These are the fcking retards that are supposed to protect us, yeah right.
oh yeah, big thing in the schools now...terrorism training...those in power must keep a certain amount of fear/protection dance going.... stay under your blankets and 'just get by' the government will provide the pink slime of life...
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Cic... if you lived near an Marine Base you would be used to this kind of thing. Do you see the C130's flying out of Stratton Air Guard Base, flying over head??? Do they intimidate you??? Or like most people in the area, they are used to them and hardly pay attention to them.
If the C130's were being armed like AC47's with mini guns and flying circular patterns around Schenectady and firing blanks out of the mini guns, you are damn straight that would get the attention of most all the residents.
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