Nice Photos.

Cue - Ride of the Valkyries.

Very nice photo TonyM.

Daaaaaaamn Tony! That's one hell of an award winning shot! Love it. Your reminded me of a few photos that Joe McNally shot for national geographic's (I think) "Flight" edition. Lovely work

Regards.

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Originally posted by tonym:

They're often buzzing about, and very evil looking things they are too! Wouldn't fancy being on the receiving end of one; I understand you never actually see it when it gets you as it's likely as not hovering down low over the horizon.

The gun is good for over four kilometres, and deadly accurate with laser rangefinding. A friend has flown them in Afghanistan, and he loves the gun, but the weapon that not many know about, and it's never on the news or Youtube, is the flechette. It's a tungsten dart, about 5" long, and about 80 are packed into a rocket. The rocket is launched with deadly precision and at a predetermined time the rocket's body opens and releases the flechettes..... at about Mach 2 or 3. An area the size of a football pitch is then ripped to shreds, even thick trees are passed through. A dart passing close to a body can rip the skin off. A dart passing through just sucks all the internals out the other side. Nice.
And don't get me started on the Hellfire missiles!



Tony

Is such a weapon legal ??

It bloody well should'nt be. Indescriminant killer!

I'd say it's more descriminate than a 1000lb bomb.

Tony

Or an IED.

Not nice, but made me chuckle. Seen near my home on a road out of Newmarket:



Tony

quote:

Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
I'd say it's more descriminate than a 1000lb bomb.

Tony

True. Yet.... When it comes to warfare we have to distinguish between weapons that are targeted at shelters, silos, tanks, and so forth. That it where I see a bomb to be of use and in that context it is as legal as a weapon can be. The weapon described above, sounds similar in goal to napalm and cluster bombs. Such weapons are primarily targeting humans on a large scale. These may be soldiers but the risk of collateral damage and loss of civilian life does seem too high with such a weapon.

Regards...

They are very careful where they use the flechette rockets, because of that. I see a young Afghan girl was killed this week by a leaflet box dropped from a Hercules. The box failed to open in mid-air and struck her on the head. How unlucky?

Tony

quote:

Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
...The box failed to open in mid-air...

Quite.

A PC war should be a sight to behold?

Just returned from the Isle of Mull.

Not as atmospheric as the photo posted by tonym above, but here goes:



Taken by, and edited on, my iPhone.

Tony

quote:

Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
They are very careful where they use the flechette rockets, because of that. I see a young Afghan girl was killed this week by a leaflet box dropped from a Hercules. The box failed to open in mid-air and struck her on the head. How unlucky?

Tony

That is a bumer.
I bet her mum and dad wont be putting in a order for that mag again.
Dont come back with thats heartless,
Because that war is never going to be one buy us OR the Yanks.
The bodys will just keep mounting up until every one pulls out.
If the might of the USSSR with no rules could not win ?? years ago.
What f in chance is there.
NONE.

Sunrise in Worcester, Thursday, 8th October.



ATB from George

What's a sunrise? Not seen one of those since I was a lad, coming home from a party.

Effective shot George, well done.

What's a sunrise? Not seen one of those since I was a lad, coming home from a party.

Dear Howard,

What do you think I was doing to be about this early!

Only kidding! Early start at work - that's all ...

ATB from George

quote:

Originally posted by BigH47:
What's a sunrise? Not seen one of those since I was a lad, coming home from a party.

Effective shot George, well done.

Howard, you should get out - I mean up more

Here's one of a place that has the most fantastic sunrises IMHO as George and Julian H will know for sure:

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/4496/p10205501.jpg


KR

Peter

quote:

Originally posted by Cymbiosis:

quote:

Originally posted by BigH47:
What's a sunrise? Not seen one of those since I was a lad, coming home from a party.

Effective shot George, well done.

Howard, you should get out - I mean up more

Here's one of a place that has the most fantastic sunrises IMHO as George and Julian H will know for sure:

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/4496/p10205501.jpg


KR

Peter

and a little bit earlier



Julian

[Peter, please can you email me? Email in profile.]

Sunrise behind my house earlier this year.

The view from my tent one morning in the Southwest Wilderness of Tasmania.

Same skyline later in the year.

The Bury St Edmunds sugar beet factory from the A14, using my iPhone:



Tony