Post amazing pics of military ordinance

[texasjohn]

SlimRick said:

Worked on these for a while in my younger days:

Some of us still do

[tmk2]

GGibbo said:

Because it's a 70s jet, with some 80s missiles and some 90s missiles, but will still beat anything because its wings move to and fro...


ETA the project HARP gun pic is awesome- apparently it's still lying on its side at the test site.

What is on the outer hard point?

[GGibbo]

tmk2 said:

What is on the outer hard point?

R/H outboard is a boz chaff/flare pod, the L/H is a dummy version of the same

[Skywalker]

When you absolutely have to 'send them the love'. JDAM; the Gentleman's choice.

[FunkyNige]

Apache with its ammo


Quite an old photo so I guess a lot of that has changed now!

[kiteless]

Sorry for no pic, but it's better seen in action:

Phalanx

[SlipStream77]

I always thought this was a scary piece of kit.

Tunguska mobile AAA and SAM unit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UHfTknL00o&fea...

[Jam Spavlin]

trickywoo said:

There is a section of this things big brother at Duxford air museum it would have been huge! 3.2ft dia round anyone?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon

Edited by Jam Spavlin on Wednesday 25th January 00:00

[EarlOfHazard]

SlipStream77 said:

I always thought this was a scary piece of kit.

Tunguska mobile AAA and SAM unit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UHfTknL00o&fea...

reminded me of these from Desert Strike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-7SKvslgIc&fea...

[marksx]

Jam Spavlin said:

trickywoo said:

There is a section of this things big brother at Duxford air museum it would have been huge! 3.2ft dia round anyone?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon

Edited by Jam Spavlin on Wednesday 25th January 00:00

Is that part of the supergun built in Sheffield? I vaguely remember hearing or reading about it when I was younger.

[Jam Spavlin]

marksx said:

Is that part of the supergun built in Sheffield? I vaguely remember hearing or reading about it when I was younger.

It is indeed!

[Cooky]

Not actual ordnance, but a direct result of, here is Passchendaele before and after the 3rd battle of Ypres 1917.

[mybrainhurts]

INTERVAL TO REVISIT A SPOT OF PRIVATE WEAPONRY...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNlFgr9BoPM

[John_S4x4]

mybrainhurts said:

INTERVAL TO REVISIT A SPOT OF WEAPONRY...

...and on a simular note http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4-9E7TM-0k&fea...

[hidetheelephants]

Jam Spavlin said:

There is a section of this things big brother at Duxford air museum it would have been huge! 3.2ft dia round anyone?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon

Childish, but when I visited I crawled inside; the human cannonball.

[Shar2]

LotusOmega375D said:

Schwerer Gustav and friends beseiging Sebastopol in 1942. The big boy appears at 1 min. 23 seconds in this propaganda newsreel. I think it's rather bigger than the rail gun firing in the still photo above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=fyFKbLGGCV...

Well found, I've not seen that film before. The gun firing in the still pic is the Leopold, only 283mm.

[Streps]

AIM-54 Phoenix

[eccles]

FunkyNige said:

Apache with its ammo


Quite an old photo so I guess a lot of that has changed now!

Not really. UK variant has Hellfires and several variants of CRV7's. Our external tanks are smaller and it's still the same gun. Lots of software and sensors have changed though.

[RedLeicester]

GGibbo said:

ETA the project HARP gun pic is awesome- apparently it's still lying on its side at the test site.

[RedLeicester]

Okay I suppose this is stretching things a little bit, being the delivery vehicle rather than the ordnance itself, but they are just a smidge bit bonkers:

Hello, I'm a big submarine:


No, I meant it, I'm really, REALLY big: