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October 17th 07, 09:16 AM
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"Osprey may get turret-mounted machine gun"
Vince wrote:
David Lesher wrote: Mike writes: Osprey may get turret-mounted machine gun http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/ Posted : Thursday Oct 11, 2007 15:11:37 EDT Air Force and Marine Corps V-22 Ospreys may get a turret-mounted machine gun, fulfilling a long-sought requirement for a forward-firing defensive weapon and making it unique among today's U.S. transport aircraft. Strange no one is discussing how much such weighs; in an airframe already short of payload... and balance its a side to side prop-rotor configuration hang a thousand pounds on the chin and see what happens It's belly, not chin mounted. -HJC Fact correcting Vince is endless fun. 
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