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- From: leem@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Lee Mellinger)
- Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military
- Subject: Re: USE OF B-52 TAIL GUNS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.212420.14444@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:24:20 GMT
- References: <C1F3vy.Ez@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1k1qgcINNead@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
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- In article <1k1qgcINNead@bigboote.WPI.EDU> megazone@realsoon.WPI.EDU (MegaZone) writes:
- :In article <C1F3vy.Ez@ra.nrl.navy.mil> mcdermot@itd.nrl.navy.mil (John McDermott) writes:
- :>with the added interest that the tail gun functioned automatically
- :>without the crew seeing the attacking fighter. Is this true?
- :
- :IF this happened it could only be on a G or H model. Those are the only models
- :with the remote gun system and the tail mounted radar and tele-optical system.
- :The earlier models had a real tail-gunner. Poor guy trapped all the way in the
- :tail manually guiding the guns, quite a rough ride at low level.
- :
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- Wrong, all models, quad .50's, 20mm gatling, gunner aft or gunner
- foward, were all radar and or optically guided.
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- Lee
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