Donald J. Trump
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That's what they practice all the time before they teach them how to actually land it.
sunny we've been a couple of three of those exercises off of san diego where they're taking the pilots from uh from miramar teach them how to land on carriers right a couple of three can do the touch and goes but they can't do that they can't do that aircraft is equipped with the m61a1 vulcan gatling gun housed in the nose the weapon fires 20 millimeter rounds at a staggering of 6 000 rounds per minute to precisely destroy small targets while minimizing collateral damage
The 20mm cannon is equipped with a semi-armor-piercing, high-explosive incendiary rounds, which are fired at supersonic speeds to inflict heavy damage to their targets.
Each aircraft will execute a well-honed strafe pattern, diving at nearly 30 degrees straight at the target and unleashing the Vulcan's firepower in a demonstration of the F-18's ability to prosecute targets even when all bombs are expended.
Sonny, we had the close-in weapon system to put up that wall of steel to stop a missile from hitting a surface vessel at the last second.
This is kind of what we have in the air in one of these fighter aircraft.
This Vulcan gun is kind of similar.
You're just putting down a wall of lead.
to rip apart, shatter anything in front of you, correct?
We will see them dispensing flares and executing a guns jank in order to defend against enemy air defense artillery and surface air missiles and look to return to base safely.
Next up is the MH-60 Sierra.
The Sierra is the Navy's multi-mission workhorse helicopter.
It has two auxiliary fuel tanks and it can stay airborne for about four and a half hours, about two hours without it.
Its max speed is 180 knots.
It can carry up to 23,000 pounds and 55 pounds of internal fuel.
For special operations support, the MH-60 Sierra can insert and extract Navy special warfare personnel by fast roping or static line as well as free fall parachute.
It also provides ISR capabilities, sniper overwatch, JTAC support, and the helicopter visit, board, search, and seizure for maritime interdiction.
The armament for the MH-60 Sierra includes the GAU-21 .50 caliber gun with nearly two kilometer effective range of M24 7.62 millimeter guns with an effective range of 1,100 meters.
When fully armed, the MH-60 Sierra can carry up to eight AGM-114 Hellfire missiles with an eight kilometer reach and 20 millimeter three barrel M197 Gatling gun with up to 38 rounds of unguided 2.75 inch rockets.
Here we see the Sierra make three total approaches off a notional target off our port side.