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  • in reply to: LOCAAS #1807540
    Chris Werb
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    Or you’ll set the GPS/INS in LOCAAS to only allow it to attack targets within a pre-defined geographical area – as is already being done with the latest HARMs and for similar reasons.

    in reply to: Waepons for WAH-64D #1807561
    Chris Werb
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    UK Apache has the following weapons: Hellfire K and L, CRV7 rockets with various warheads and 30mm M230 gun with various types of ammunition. There are no plans to carry Brimstone.

    There was an article in AFM a few months that had British Army WAH-64s firing both HEAT and blast/frag/(incendiary?) laser versions of the SALH Hellfire II (presumably AGM-114M) in an exercise in the States.

    in reply to: newbie calling – Gun on Typhoon #1807563
    Chris Werb
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    So let me get this straight:

    The gun “isn’t needed” on the Typhoon, since missiles rock…..

    And those missiles that rock aren’t integrated on the plane….

    …that can’t use the gun?

    Frakin’ brilliant.

    Despite a late Meteor integration the RAF’s Typhoons will still have ASRAAM and AIM-120C-5s which is a lot better than nothing. IIRC we’ve decided not to initially integrate Meteor into our JSFs – it may never happen.

    http://www.baesystems.com/newsroom/2006/jan/110106news1.htm

    in reply to: Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System #1812637
    Chris Werb
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    The UK Merlin does not carry rockets, nor is it likely to; neither does the current UK Lynx, although that could change when the Future Lynx comes along.

    Hi. Gazelles carried two small pods (6 per pod?) of 68mm rockets in the Falklands. I’ve seen early commando Wessexes (mid-late 1960s) with podded rockets (I think they were 2″ ones the RN used from fixed wing aircraft ), SS-11 or 12 ATGM and what looked like fixed forward firing .303 Brownings! I think the British Army Apaches use CRV-7 – though I’ve only seen the 19 round pods.

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