"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/01/2014 at 13:22 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/01/2014 at 13:22 • Filed to: planelopnik | 5
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It's not as strange as it sounds. Here, an Iraqi Air Force AC-208 Caravan practices firing a Hellfire missile. The Marine Corps is launching them from the KC-130J Harvest Hawk now, so why not? (see below)
An Iraqi air force AC-208 Cessna Caravan aircrew launches a Hellfire missile Nov. 8, 2010, at a target on the Aziziyah Training Range, south of Baghdad. The Iraqi airmen scored a direct hit, destroying the target in their second-ever launch of a Hellfire missile. Iraqi airmen have trained continuously for the Hellfire mission, mastering the weapons load, target attack and airmanship skills necessary to maintain proficiency since completing their first Hellfire launch in 2009, also resulting in a direct hit of a training target. U.S. Air Force air advisers with the 521st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron in Kirkuk work shoulder-to-shoulder with Iraqi airmen. (U.S. Army photo/Sgt. Brandon Bolick)
For Sweden
> ttyymmnn
10/01/2014 at 13:27 |
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Assumed air superiority is a hell of a drug.
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ttyymmnn
> For Sweden
10/01/2014 at 13:29 |
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I'm guessing that the Iraqis will have AS until ISIS gets their own air force. Or until they start using their MANPADS to shoot down the Caravan. I've read somewhere that the AF isn't using the A-10 against ISIS for that very reason. Everything so far has been pretty high-altitude.
T5Killer
> ttyymmnn
10/01/2014 at 14:59 |
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I hate to be that guy but only the USMC operates KC-130J Harvest Hawk.
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ttyymmnn
> T5Killer
10/01/2014 at 15:01 |
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Please, be that guy. I hate being wrong about this stuff. I'll edit the post. Thanks.
leicester
> ttyymmnn
10/03/2014 at 15:42 |
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So the missile costs more than the plane?
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ttyymmnn
> leicester
10/03/2014 at 15:54 |
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Very possibly. But there's a whole lot more electronics on the AC-208 than your off-the-shelf Caravan.