Friday, April 11, 2008

The aft pylon has already been removed (you have to do this to get it inside an airplane) and Donovan is taking off the missile warning equipment.
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2 comments:

DAD said...

I read a dumb adventure novel that included a Chinook as a minor character. (: Which prompts my question about missle warning equiptment. I thought a Chinook's ability to evade missles was limited. Are most missles designed to track heat? (I got this from the book.) How could you evade a missle and what is your alert that a missle is approaching Flashing light...sound? Mechanical female voice? Like the ones I have heard on small planes, counting down the feet to ground? Am I correct to think that the weapons you have on board are mainly for, as the military says (I think they say (: "personnel" and are not anti-missle?

April 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM
David said...

This is a rather delicate subject so I will be a little guarded about what I say. Most missiles we worry about over here are the heat seeking type. We use flares as decoys to pull the missiles away from the aircraft. And yes there is a mechanical voice that alerts us but the flares launch automatically when the system senses a missile heading towards us. You are right about the weapons we have on board - they are designed to defeat other weapon threats. Missiles travel close to the speed of sound or faster so they are a little hard to shoot down with bullets. I think that is about all I should say :)

April 13, 2008 at 8:23 PM

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