Anyone here an expert in Chinook software?

[Churchill]

Friend of mine is ex-RN (you may have seen him at Diana and Charles's wedding, he was the special shiny guard stood to the right of the door when they came out....), he claims to be one of the few naval men to have torpedoed a cow.

Doing some live firing training with dummy (or at least, unarmed) Mk. 8 torpedoes off a destroyer somewhere off the south coast many years ago, someone got it entirely wrong and fired the thing to turn right (towards land) instead of left (towards America). Ran up the beach at some speed, thorugh a fence and knocked over an innocent cow.

I used to holiday up at Arrochar as a youngster, there were certain times you weren't permitted on the beach of the campsite(Ardgarten) because of the possibility of a torpedo running up the beach.

[EternalOptimist]

Got chased by a herd of cows up there once. I thought they were bursting to be milked but now its obvious they were stampeding away from a salvo of torpedos.

[threaded]

Wasn't the whole purpose of buying these Chinooks to help Boeings helicopter business and encourage some noisey septic politico talk about something else?

What I ask is were they ever really intended to fly?

It was, after all is said and done, just a big bung oppo.

[Churchill]

Wasn't the whole purpose of buying these Chinooks to help Boeings helicopter business and encourage some noisey septic politico talk about something else?

What I ask is were they ever really intended to fly?

It was, after all is said and done, just a big bung oppo.

Oh, you cynical swine!

[Troll]

I read somewhere that one Apache has the combined firepower of the whole Grand Fleet at Jutland.

Seems a bit hard to believe, but all the same I wouldn't want to be the wrong end to find out.

So... at the Battle of Jutland the British Grand Fleet comprised of:

28 x Battleships
9 x Battle Cruisers
8 x Armoured Cruisers
26 Light Cruisers
78 Destroyers

The battleships main armament were 10 x 13.5 inch Mk V naval gun uprated to fire a 1400Ibs armour piercing or high explosive shell 23,800 yards (13.5 miles)

The Battle Cruisers had 8 x 12 inch MkX which would lob a 850lbs shell 24075 yards (13 miles+)

28 x 7 tons = 196 tons
9 x 3.4tons = 30.6 tons

these two types in a hypothetical full broadsides & ignoring all the lesser ships, smaller secondary armament and torpedoes would present 226 tons at a striking velocity (dependant on angle of elevation) of 1250 fps

The Apache attack helicopter has
30mm chain gun +1200 rounds + 8 x Hellfire missiles

Hellfire has a 20lb warhead with a range of 5+ miles and a striking speed of 425 metres /sec

[scooby]

So... at the Battle of Jutland the British Grand Fleet comprised of:

28 x Battleships
9 x Battle Cruisers
8 x Armoured Cruisers
26 Light Cruisers
78 Destroyers

The battleships main armament were 10 x 13.5 inch Mk V naval gun uprated to fire a 1400Ibs armour piercing or high explosive shell 23,800 yards (13.5 miles)

The Battle Cruisers had 8 x 12 inch MkX which would lob a 850lbs shell 24075 yards (13 miles+)

28 x 7 tons = 196 tons
9 x 3.4tons = 30.6 tons

these two types in a hypothetical full broadsides & ignoring all the lesser ships, smaller secondary armament and torpedoes would present 226 tons at a striking velocity (dependant on angle of elevation) of 1250 fps

The Apache attack helicopter has
30mm chain gun +1200 rounds + 8 x Hellfire missiles

Hellfire has a 20lb warhead with a range of 5+ miles and a striking speed of 425 metres /sec

[Churchill]

So... at the Battle of Jutland the British Grand Fleet comprised of:

28 x Battleships
9 x Battle Cruisers
8 x Armoured Cruisers
26 Light Cruisers
78 Destroyers

The battleships main armament were 10 x 13.5 inch Mk V naval gun uprated to fire a 1400Ibs armour piercing or high explosive shell 23,800 yards (13.5 miles)

The Battle Cruisers had 8 x 12 inch MkX which would lob a 850lbs shell 24075 yards (13 miles+)

28 x 7 tons = 196 tons
9 x 3.4tons = 30.6 tons

these two types in a hypothetical full broadsides & ignoring all the lesser ships, smaller secondary armament and torpedoes would present 226 tons at a striking velocity (dependant on angle of elevation) of 1250 fps

The Apache attack helicopter has
30mm chain gun +1200 rounds + 8 x Hellfire missiles

Hellfire has a 20lb warhead with a range of 5+ miles and a striking speed of 425 metres /sec

Google is your friend - and Troll is, well, he's just a troll.

[Troll]

Google is your friend - and Troll is, well, he's just a troll.

Mostly wiki actually....... + boredom