And for transport helos, their primary mission is landing near injured people. The people that injured them tend to still be around and they have guns too. :)
Point is, they wouldn't do it for a motorcade guard.
And no, it didn't have the narrow profile of an apache. Much more round body, obviously intended to transport people. It did, however, if my brief look from a block away was correct, have a nice big gun mounted on it that made me immediately think "that helicopter could shoot me one whole hell of a lot, with the pilot aiming and pulling the trigger" - which is why I said "gunship", as opposed to a transport helicopter with a crew-served gun pointing out the side doors.
I'll happily accept that I used the wrong word. I wasn't meaning to imply "attack helicopter".
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Date: 2009-02-19 06:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-19 06:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-19 06:36 pm (UTC)Unlikely, I admit. But I didn't see that they all WEREN'T Jackie Chan, so maybe one or more of them was!
Hrmmmmm
Date: 2009-02-19 06:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-19 06:57 pm (UTC)Then again going to a school that had a gross metric ton of DARPA projects makes for fun stories.
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Date: 2009-02-19 07:02 pm (UTC)Which is to say, Ottawa, right along the fastest route between Ottawa International Airport and the Canadian House of Parliament.
Which is to say, the route the Secret Service picked this morning to get Barack Obama downtown.
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Date: 2009-02-19 10:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-19 08:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-19 10:30 pm (UTC)People just don't ride the runners of gunships, outside of movies.
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Date: 2009-02-20 12:56 am (UTC)The guys on the side definitely had guns.
But I really didn't get a good enough look to ID it.
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:58 am (UTC)There are a lot of small rotary wing aircraft which look somewhat similar, and are designed for troop lift to the tune of 4-6 operators.
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Date: 2009-02-20 02:24 am (UTC)And for transport helos, their primary mission is landing near injured people. The people that injured them tend to still be around and they have guns too. :)
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-20 04:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-20 07:19 pm (UTC)It wasn't likely a helicopter gunship such as an Apache or Cobra. It was more likely an AH or MH-6, or something similar.
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Date: 2009-02-20 07:42 pm (UTC)And no, it didn't have the narrow profile of an apache. Much more round body, obviously intended to transport people. It did, however, if my brief look from a block away was correct, have a nice big gun mounted on it that made me immediately think "that helicopter could shoot me one whole hell of a lot, with the pilot aiming and pulling the trigger" - which is why I said "gunship", as opposed to a transport helicopter with a crew-served gun pointing out the side doors.
I'll happily accept that I used the wrong word. I wasn't meaning to imply "attack helicopter".
(PS: "AH"? Isn't the Apache "AH-64"?)
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Date: 2009-02-20 02:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-20 07:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-20 11:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-19 10:33 pm (UTC)