30mm cannon video clip

[blue_piglet]

I don't know if anyone has posted it already. If there is, pls let me know or edit it for me if you can.:)

A video clip showing the power of the 30mm cannon on real helo.

http://www.nata2.info/war/helicopter_kills.mpg

[davelisowski]

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I've seen that before, but not here.

It's pretty disturbing seeing as those are actual people being killed (or were actual people).

That one guy under the truck - It's like when you watch a horror movie and your saying "Don't go in there!" and the person in the movie does anyways and something horrible happens. I'm watching that guy under the truck thinking, "Stay there! Don't move!"

And the guy who walks over to the tank(?) and is pulling out some tarp or something doesn't even notice that the first guy get blown away.

And look at how hot the ground is after those shots get there. They stay bright white for a long time.

:edit: Should I have prefaced this with a "Spoiler" tag?

[$kelet0r]

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woah - that's a blast from the past

still as horrifying as the first time I saw it

[blue_piglet]

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It seems the gunner did not want to kill the third target, cause he'd been wounded. But the pilot ordered he gunner "hit the truck and him". So he did.

It's kinda paradox. Cause a survival enemy can be a danger to you and your comrades. Sometime, killing has to be carried out for protecting the one you love. But never forget, what you're killing are human beings just like everybody else and they have their loves too.

War is hell.

[[2bit]Modmaven]

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Whew that's pretty intense. Raises all kinds of moral issues for sure. I saw one similar from a gunship that was literally like a mile away and taking people out like that. Scary stuff.

[bitvomit]

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What I really want to know is how these guys hovered in complete silence. Even if the gunner was zoomed in the helicoper should still be making a ton of noise that anyone can hear. Fyi, there's a longer version of this video floating somewhere out there.

[Slocum]

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The helo was prolly a good 800-900yds away, so they wouldnt have been able to hear it. And the ground isnt hot after they take those guys out, the FLIR is picking up the heat from the dead guys blood all over the ground.

[DeVilish]

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what bastards, i never understand this stuff like when you see movies about 9/11 its like horrific and then you see things like this? and its like did'nt they just bring it on themselfs?

[Nimbob]

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All the same Devilsh they're human beings made out of the same stuff as us being torn to shreds with a 30mm canoon. I find it harrowing to watch.

[buteonidae]

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Yeh I have seen this before, it was horrible to watch! Seeing real people being killed...

[KoVeRt]

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Yeh I have seen this before, it was horrible to watch! Seeing real people being killed...

i hear ya completely, but it has the same effect as watching ppl jump out of the twin tower's on 9/11

they started a war, and this is just a glimpse of what happens during war times

[HoodyHoodRat]

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Man that is so ****ed. The pilots are so calm and collective. It's like them blasting those people with no oppostion. They are still people and it still sucks.

[RS-Rom]

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I didn't watch the link above, but I can tell from description what it is. I'm seeing that this version ahs been cut down. There are longer versions. Is the audio on in this one? The gunner is trying to go easy, follow rules. It seems they call superior, which is a complete physcho and orders the gunner to keep going for the people.
They didn't know who those guys were, they should have confirmed or sent ground troops.

I think this video was in Afganistan and not Iraq, because I think it came out a bit before Iraq war started. I could be wrong though.

[Consultant01]

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I didn't watch the link above, but I can tell from description what it is. I'm seeing that this version ahs been cut down. There are longer versions. Is the audio on in this one? The gunner is trying to go easy, follow rules. It seems they call superior, which is a complete physcho and orders the gunner to keep going for the people.
They didn't know who those guys were, they should have confirmed or sent ground troops.

I think this video was in Afganistan and not Iraq, because I think it came out a bit before Iraq war started. I could be wrong though.

sounds like John Kerry assumptions to me...

you make it sound as if they were just cruising around, found 3 guys and capped them.... does anything in the military happen like that?