What is the most fun thing you ever shot?

[meles meles]

President Kennedy.

Oh how we chuckle down in the sett at all those daft conspiracy theories that are raised...

[whoowhoop]

most fun thing I ever shot?
I was born with it......


and no, not my mouth, honest.

[ovenpaa]

These are inert for a 30,0mm Bushmaster from a few years ago, I still have the ammunition can they came in somewhere.

[Rearlugs]

Military toys are best:



105mm light gun in anti-tank role
105mm light gun at war rates (Rumaylah 2003)
Wombat (trying to shoot off remaining UK ammo stocks)
Charlie G (ditto)
Twin 35mm Oerlikon ground to ground
Rapier ground to ground (target shooters weep; imagine being able to hit a grapefruit at 5km...)
Javelin MPAD
GPMG from waist/SF/AAAD
Bren/L4 ditto
Vickers
Para FAL on CQB range
MP5 on CQB range
Grenades on CQB range (fun and brown underpants together)
L1A1 SLR on falling plate range
Challenger 120mm APFSDS (target shooters weep, etc)
Plastic explosive charges
MG42/3
Stgw. 57 off skis, a la James Bond baddies

Probably forgot a few....



I used to moan about paying tax but, having reviewed my "most fun" list, I reckon I fired most of it down range...

[tackb]

Rapier ground to ground (target shooters weep; imagine being able to hit a grapefruit at 5km...)

may i respectfully ask how the argies got their airforce anywhere near us then?

oh and i'm very jealous of the vickers that is something i'd love to have a go with (and a grenade!)

:flag5:

[Rearlugs]

Rapier ground to ground (target shooters weep; imagine being able to hit a grapefruit at 5km...)

may i respectfully ask how the argies got their airforce anywhere near us then?

:flag5:

Going off thread in the interests of swinging the lamp, given that its Nov 11 and we Remember Them on Op Corporate:

The FSA (Field Standard A") Rapier launchers taken south were very delicate bits of electronic kit which didn't take kindly to a long sea voyage; initially they were throwing up faults the first time they were set up and plugged in. Then peacetime theory and training were followed, and the launchers were deployed according to school of artillery best practice - on hill tops where they had good 360o field of view. Then wartime reality kicked in, and it was realised that the enemy could get out of missile view by flying down into dead ground underneath the depression angle of the missile tracking units. Two or more launchers were then moved down into the bottom of San Carlos valley - and essentially no more enemy aircraft made it through without getting knocked down. Thats when they gave up the attacks on the anchorage. Later on, at Bluff Cove, the ships that got hit had for some reason (poor shore to sea comms due, IIRC, to peacetime spending constraints) anchored in a different bay to the one that was under AD cover - with the sad result. Thats war...

Later on, after the war, we had our own RAF Phantom F4s based in the Falklands. Those boys loved to emulate the argies, by flying low over the hills and then plunging down into San Carlos. They thought they were flying attack profiles that would keep them out of reach of air defence assets. When they visited the Rapier battery on guard and saw how the Rapier operators could keep the cross hairs on the pilot's head throughout the entire attack profile - they shat themselves. (Rapier is un-jammable as the human operator tracks the aircraft using a set of optics. The missile has a set of flares in its arse. A TV camera in parallel with the optics "sees" the flares, and a computer steers the missile onto the cross hairs being steered by the operator).

[Blu]

Later on, at Bluff Cove, the ships that got hit had for some reason (poor shore to sea comms due, IIRC, to peacetime spending constraints) anchored in a different bay to the one that was under AD cover - with the sad result. Thats war...

Rearlugs, are you referring to the Sir Gallahad when you say the ships that got hit hard?

Blu

[tackb]

Rapier ground to ground (target shooters weep; imagine being able to hit a grapefruit at 5km...)

may i respectfully ask how the argies got their airforce anywhere near us then?

:flag5:

Going off thread in the interests of swinging the lamp, given that its Nov 11 and we Remember Them on Op Corporate:

The FSA (Field Standard A") Rapier launchers taken south were very delicate bits of electronic kit which didn't take kindly to a long sea voyage; initially they were throwing up faults the first time they were set up and plugged in. Then peacetime theory and training were followed, and the launchers were deployed according to school of artillery best practice - on hill tops where they had good 360o field of view. Then wartime reality kicked in, and it was realised that the enemy could get out of missile view by flying down into dead ground underneath the depression angle of the missile tracking units. Two or more launchers were then moved down into the bottom of San Carlos valley - and essentially no more enemy aircraft made it through without getting knocked down. Thats when they gave up the attacks on the anchorage. Later on, at Bluff Cove, the ships that got hit had for some reason (poor shore to sea comms due, IIRC, to peacetime spending constraints) anchored in a different bay to the one that was under AD cover - with the sad result. Thats war...

Later on, after the war, we had our own RAF Phantom F4s based in the Falklands. Those boys loved to emulate the argies, by flying low over the hills and then plunging down into San Carlos. They thought they were flying attack profiles that would keep them out of reach of air defence assets. When they visited the Rapier battery on guard and saw how the Rapier operators could keep the cross hairs on the pilot's head throughout the entire attack profile - they shat themselves. (Rapier is un-jammable as the human operator tracks the aircraft using a set of optics. The missile has a set of flares in its arse. A TV camera in parallel with the optics "sees" the flares, and a computer steers the missile onto the cross hairs being steered by the operator).

thanks for that , it's cleared it up for me (i wondered for years about it)

[Rearlugs]

Later on, at Bluff Cove, the ships that got hit had for some reason (poor shore to sea comms due, IIRC, to peacetime spending constraints) anchored in a different bay to the one that was under AD cover - with the sad result. Thats war...

Rearlugs, are you referring to the Sir Gallahad when you say the ships that got hit hard?

Blu

Yes. Friend of mine had set up the AD coverage according to the plan, then had to watch the ships park in the wrong place and get hit. Very much not his fault, but the tragedy still weighed heavily on him. Such is war; or at least such is the typical cost in human lives of going to war on the back of pathetically inadequate defence spending....

[Blu]

Later on, at Bluff Cove, the ships that got hit had for some reason (poor shore to sea comms due, IIRC, to peacetime spending constraints) anchored in a different bay to the one that was under AD cover - with the sad result. Thats war...

Rearlugs, are you referring to the Sir Gallahad when you say the ships that got hit hard?

Blu

Yes. Friend of mine had set up the AD coverage according to the plan, then had to watch the ships park in the wrong place and get hit. Very much not his fault, but the tragedy still weighed heavily on him. Such is war; or at least such is the typical cost in human lives of going to war on the back of pathetically inadequate defence spending....

The AD coverage had to have been set up after the Sir Gallahad was attacked because at the time of the attack the only AD were the guys on the ground. The day the Gallahad was attacked we received an air raid warning red. A little while later two Harriers came by and more than a few guys opened up on them thinking they were Skyhawks. The two Harriers disappeared and a short while later another two aircraft appeared. Most folks thought it was the two Harriers back again as the they both look very similar apart from the tail.

Well the first pilot came in low and fast and his bombs missed but the second fella, well he knew what he was doing and I have to say he was a very brave man given the amount of small arms fire going his way. He slowed right down and he put those bombs exactly were he wanted to put them and we all now know the result of that. Had there been rapiers up and running they would have had no problem taking out the second Skyhawk, as it was both aircraft escaped the small arms fire but we later learned that they were shot down by Harriers while making their way home.

Blu

Those two aircraft