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 Posted: Aug 04, 2008 - 02:48 PM
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You are very welcome...
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Posted: Aug 05, 2008 - 06:32 PM
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| Hey Bushmaster, I just noticed your location... and your signature (I know I'm blind). Does your name reference the 30mm under the Apache? Hell of a chopper. Prolly a maintenance pig, but so are most all military vehicles. Sadly the image isnt coming up. Stupid cheap internet. So where in Baghdad are ya? PM me if you want to maintain OPSEC a little better. Just curious if you are anywhere around me. |
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Posted: Aug 17, 2008 - 07:53 AM
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Hey James, sorry about the late response, I was at a FOB last month supporting ops, I am back at base, and back to the stress of things, took me a while to get back... No, never noticed that our gun is made by Bushmaster, I check all the guns I get to work on, nothing but McDonnell Douglas Logo and your regular s/n's, p/n's whatnot... Our birds fly a lot which in turn means 500 hr phase maint. every 6 days, that is quite a pace... Heard there were times, the rate was higher.
My name comes from...
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Posted: Aug 18, 2008 - 08:25 AM
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| those are nice patches! |
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Posted: Aug 19, 2008 - 11:15 PM
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Bushmaster wrote:
No, never noticed that our gun is made by Bushmaster, I check all the guns I get to work on, nothing but McDonnell Douglas Logo and your regular s/n's, p/n's whatnot...
The M230 30mm chain gun on the Apache was designed by Hughes, the original designer (and manufacturer) of the AH-64. The M230 is now manufactured by Alliant Techsystems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M230_Chain_Gun |
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Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 03:28 PM
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| Yes but isnt it "named" the Bushmaster? IIRC it is, but hey, I could be wrong. |
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Guysmiley
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Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 03:48 PM
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| The M242 25mm cannon on the M2/M3 Bradley IFVs have the nickname "Bushmaster". I'm not sure of the etymology of the nickname but I've never seen the M230 on the Apache referred to the same way. They're both "chain gun" type cannons. |
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Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 07:13 PM
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Yeah, only the 25mm was called the Bushmaster- they even had a humvee remote mount for it at one time. Makes for a nice big game buggy that way!  |
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Posted: Aug 07, 2008 - 10:49 AM
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| Chain guns suck!!! |
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Posted: Aug 07, 2008 - 10:35 PM
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| lol |
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Posted: Aug 07, 2008 - 10:45 PM
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| Hours of cleaning and then lubing... indeed LOL after a while! A nervous LOL! |
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Posted: Aug 10, 2008 - 01:37 AM
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| "Alright almost clean..." BOOM "Alright, gonna finish later." |
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Posted: Aug 10, 2008 - 08:46 PM
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| Havent seen badly messed up gun yet, not this deployment, system is pretty safe, any jam it shuts the whole system down, rounds are fed into the guy with a rail system that runs at 3000 psi, enormous power, sometimes we can't extract the jammed rounds at mission breaks, they have to roll into hangar or flightline. |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 01:06 AM
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| Okay so I was COMPLETELY stoked to get home for RnR and play Open Falcon. I get home DL it after a little help, and am even more blown away to see that I can fly the F-14B in Campaign mode. Once problem, no matter what plane I use (F-14B, or F-16) or what type of weapon I try and Use (AA or AG) all my MFDs turn off and I wasnt able to find the comand line for Radar-Designate Target. So now I am back in the sandbox and curious if this was normal or if I did something wrong. |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 07:28 AM
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| They were turned on right? Right console, avionics power switches? To designate TGT, you have to use the TMS on the sidestick. |
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