The versatile C-130. Quite possibly the GREATEST aircraft ever developed. Maybe I'm a little partial. Worked on them my first enlistment. Then decided I wanted to go to something "cooler and faster". Should have stayed in 130s. From an airframes standpoint they were waaaaaay better than Tomcats. The faster they are the more they break.
btw. now we have almost 5 months past their first experiment. and I haven't heard that has became a usual procedure, to deliver equipment by parachute in afghanistan...
I actually meant all the equipment, like parachutes, dropping platforms and other stuff, that needed to be delivered.
Look, they take a howitzer, fly it from the US to Afghanistan. then they strap it to a chinook and place it where it is needed. that's the easy way. the hard way is to fly extra parachuting experts, parachutes, packing material, platforms, then rig it all together just to drop it a few miles away on a field, that is secured by friendlies anyway?
well no shit.... if you haven't noticed, they didn't use C-130 to fly it from the US directly to the battlefield either. and there is no need to fly it over the ocean strapped to a parachute, since they are in control of all the airfields
Well, if the cannon had to be shipped from the US then you can't use a chinook, genius. Choppers don't fly across oceans, they have to be shipped along with all the rest of the equipment that goes over there.
how are they getting it out of there?
SteelRain654 1 month ago
@TubsMcLard afghanistan is landlocked so you cant ship it directly to afghanistan.
ddioppp 4 months ago
The versatile C-130. Quite possibly the GREATEST aircraft ever developed. Maybe I'm a little partial. Worked on them my first enlistment. Then decided I wanted to go to something "cooler and faster". Should have stayed in 130s. From an airframes standpoint they were waaaaaay better than Tomcats. The faster they are the more they break.
vf74tomcat 5 months ago
@beckreardon thanks for the only valuable comment on this video
altologist 9 months ago
btw. now we have almost 5 months past their first experiment. and I haven't heard that has became a usual procedure, to deliver equipment by parachute in afghanistan...
ZeroNinerFoxtrot 2 years ago
I actually meant all the equipment, like parachutes, dropping platforms and other stuff, that needed to be delivered.
Look, they take a howitzer, fly it from the US to Afghanistan. then they strap it to a chinook and place it where it is needed. that's the easy way. the hard way is to fly extra parachuting experts, parachutes, packing material, platforms, then rig it all together just to drop it a few miles away on a field, that is secured by friendlies anyway?
ZeroNinerFoxtrot 2 years ago
Why did you say it was coming all the way from the US in your original comment then?
TubsMcLard 2 years ago
well no shit.... if you haven't noticed, they didn't use C-130 to fly it from the US directly to the battlefield either. and there is no need to fly it over the ocean strapped to a parachute, since they are in control of all the airfields
ZeroNinerFoxtrot 2 years ago
Well, if the cannon had to be shipped from the US then you can't use a chinook, genius. Choppers don't fly across oceans, they have to be shipped along with all the rest of the equipment that goes over there.
TubsMcLard 2 years ago
not much would happen they would be like wtf and then go blow a mosk up
HASSON1911 2 years ago