dday@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) (02/24/86)
In article <9762@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: >I looked it up. An F-16 carries a single GE M-61A1 Vulcan 20mm Cannon, >which is a cluster of six cannon barrels, firing at rates of 6,000 >rounds per minute, considerably lower than the 18,000 rounds per >minute claimed by fox@daemen. The F-16 carries exactly 500 rounds. >As long as we're talking about people who don't know anything about >airplanes, I have long been bothered by the way "Airwolf" likes to >shoot AGM-65 Mavericks at other aircraft. The Maverick is a television >guided air-to-surface missile. It is only effective against stationary >or slow-moving ground targets that are unable to move beyond a >missile's limited field of view before being struck. I suppose I >shouldn't be surprised. AIRWOLF has done much stupider things than that. How about the episode where they used the helicopter to outrace a ballistic missile across the U.S. and then shot down 8 MIRVed warheads that were descending on Washington, D.C.? I'm not a regular watcher but that was good for a few laughs. -- UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!dday Dennis Doubleday CSNet: dday@umcp-cs University of Maryland ARPA: dday@gymble.umd.edu College Park, MD 20742 Fan of: Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, OU Sooners (301) 454-4247