Guy Alcala wrote:

:"Fred J. McCall" wrote:
:
: Guy Alcala wrote:
:
: :"Fred J. McCall" wrote:
:
:snip
:
: : So you think a guy standing in a doorway over iron sights using a
: : weapon never intended to fire at anything but the ground is going to
: : hit one of these things but a purpose built machine designed to take
: : on air targets is going to be unable to?
: :
: : Yeah, that could happen!
: :
: :Gven that the flight engineer on an Air America Huey was able to shoot down
: :an AN-2 using a hand-held AK-47,
:
: Yes, and someone knocked down a stealth fighter with a handgun.
:
:I'm sure you'll give a cite for that, Fred, but since I know about the Huey kill
f the AN-2, I'll share first:

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:Okay, your turn to tell us all about the the stealth fighter that was shot down
:with a handgun;-)

They don't actually know what took him down. 'Golden BB' is all they
could come up with, since nobody saw anything happen.

Heard it at a meeting with the Nightstalkers.

"Yeah, they say we're invisible, but we've still got one who didn't
come back."

: :using a door gun while flying co-speed and
: arallel to a UAV should be doable, given that they can get a lot closer than
: :any fighter without needing to take avoiding action (owing to much lower --
: :zero under ideal conditions -- closure rates. A UAV is a smaller target, but
: :likely able to take less violent avoiding action. Put a lead-computing
: :sight on the MG and it's easier, or just load it with lots of tracer.
: epending on how close they're willing to get (mainly a question of how
: :violently the UAV is or might be maneuvering), instead of an LCOSS they might
: :be able to get away with a simple laser sight. Alternatively, forward-firing
: :rockets with prox. fuses may do the trick, at relatively low cost.
:
: Why go to all this trouble? Use the bloody system that is already
: designed to deal with air vehicles.
:
:Because, as Paul has pointed out, it's fairly poorly suited to dealing with this
articular type of target.

It's better suited to it than a door gunner over iron sights.

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