Are fixed wing aircraft and helicopters, nowadays, generally not dropping spent cases,disintegrating links but have means to capture them after being fired? Obviously, with jets there is always a danger of such items getting into engine intakes.
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Are fixed wing aircraft and helicopters, nowadays, generally not dropping spent cases,disintegrating links but have means to capture them after being fired? Obviously, with jets there is always a danger of such items getting into engine intakes.
Depends on the installation, however the ones I have seen the spent brass and link falls to the earth below:Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
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The A-10’s GAU 8 Gatling Gun retains the spent casings.
One of benefits of keeping the casings is it helps reduce the shift of the center of gravity when the gun is fired.
Like it was poured out of buckets. Most of our jets of the last 25 years were all dropping brass. They could be found on the approaches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sentryduty
Brit Service Hellicoptors, use a buffered mount for a variant of the GPMG. It has a canvas bag underneath. Which captures the Link & spent cases together.
I'm guessing it would be much like the SF kit buffers? Those are super...Quote:
Originally Posted by tankhunter
I had got the idea that the U.K. did captured the spent cases/links but wasn't entirely sure of the reasons for it. I did wonder if there was some obscure security concern behind it such as the items being of some use to an enemy?
That is severely overthinking OPSEC, its for keeping things tidy and preventing FOD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
We have to use a brass catcher or deflector when helicopter hog hunting with machine guns.
Here’s a video where you can see the brass deflector.
Helicopter Hog Hunting with Machine Guns - YouTube
Wild hogs are pests here. Their population has exploded and they do a tremendous amount of damage to crops. There’s no hunting season for them. You can hunt them year round.
The helicopter hunting is expensive. But how often do you get a chance to shoot wild hogs from a helicopter with a machine gun with Richard Wagner’s The Ride of the Valkyries playing in your headset?
I did the UK trials as the tech offr on the minigun (thread 12) Our brass (and link) went down a blue shute and fell into a huge tub. You could really direct it anywhere but Dillon had a few different ejector shutes to try. The best bit of the month long trial was firing the gun one day, non stop, until something broke. A barrel disintegrated. Really, it was all good!