Ref # 146. Trying to befuddle me with financial gobbledegook are we ? In that case it's two million Armenian wotsits and an Armenian masseuse.

I HAVE SEEN THAT ONE ON THE MILITARY CHANNEL.

THE FAMILY OF AMERICAN STRIKER VEHICLES COULD ALSO BE CONVERTED PRETTY EASY.

Note here the different payloads .

 

                       Predator 900 lbs, Reaper 10,000 lb

 

Ranges  400 mi each

 

Loiter time                        5 hrs                      14 hrs 

                                                                      30  hrs recce

 

Power plants                Rotax 110 HP       Turboprop                    

OK PBA cut to the  chase

 

 

This is the M102 105 gun as fitted to Spectre, with 100 rds.

Gun weight is 1.5 tons, with ammn say 100 lb per rd. payload is 10,000 lb

So Reaper could carry that gun plus 50 rds. 

I'M SURE THE REAPER CAN CARRY CRUISE MISSLES.

MUCH BETTER TO DISTROY THE ENEMY FROM A FAR THAT UP CLOSE.

Cruise missiles weigh in the order of 4,000 lbs so yes.

 

Point is the launch stresses on the reaper.

Air launched Cruise missiles are generally drop launched about 200 feet away from the aircraft.

I doubt they will be able to pull this off as they can't overfly Iraq or Saudi Arabia.

Ref 152.... what a marvelous piece of kit that is. I think we should put an order in for 1.000

Those Spectre gunships are something else. I've spoken to quite a few British soldiers who were grateful for them. One told me that the crews and were quite funny and always seemed to have southern accents. On one occasion they came over and the pilot said to them on the ground..... there's a lot of love coming down to you guys. Seconds later, the target disappeard in a cloud of dust and flying debris and this was just a few hundred yards infront of them. Amazing accuracy.

This is what I admire about Yank forces; their "can do" attitude.

#159

 

Thanks Hobbs; I didn't know if they needed the T-Dog type booster rocket (See CNN Nunnery Secrets) to clear the mother craft.

 

James for your smartass friends on WW2

These give you an idea of what 20-30mm cannon shells look like.

 

 The very first cannon. The anti-balloon 20 mm Becker Gun Franco Prussian war 1870.

Developed into the oerlikon cannon, 1920s