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.
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 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?
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.
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!
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Originally Posted by Flying10uk
