The omnipresent adjudicator hovering over the skies of Iraq can deliver heinous death at any waking instant. You are taking a stroll down the street, plotting some terrorist attacks in your imagination, and suddenly, without ever feeling a thing, you are reduced to a full sized human splatter pattern. The reality is, only you know for sure what you were really wanting, thinking, taking, doing…better shape up for the eyes in the sky.
These dealings in death, the fine line between reality and the ability to play god with the lives of lesser men, are made possible by the ubiquitous ATK M230 Chain Gun mounted on the chin section of the AH-64 Apache Gunship. With a rate of fire of 625 rounds/minute, firing 30 mm depleted uranium or anti-personnel fragmentation rounds, this weapon enables the FLIR vision films of utter anhillation the likes of which were never seen until recently. People 100 years ago would label a death like the one below an act of God, fire and brimstone punishing the guilty. Is that true?
You decide. After all, the USA is a free country.
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Good God. That’s awesome. Not if you’re the dudes on the ground being spread out like strawberry jam on toast, but still, even they, I’m sure, would appreciate the glow of awesomeness emanating from the screen if their heaven, or hell, has ADSL.
You can ever see the shrapnel bouncing off the walls.
Posted on September 13th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
WOW, they should make a video game that lets you do that
That is amazing. They’re just walking when (obliteration)
Check out the archer artillary system….
Posted on November 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
holy crap cant wait to be in the military GO MARINES
Posted on December 1st, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Yeah MARINES ALL THE WAY!!!! that thing is freaking awesome but theres one flaw……im not firing it! lol
Posted on January 7th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Are they sure at that range who the targets are? Do they care?
Of course not, as long as it’s in someone else’s country.
Posted on March 27th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
@Chardon - If u are an American and saying this, shame on u, dude. Read news about technology or watch Discovery or smth. Of course, they know who’re the targets at any range :P. Why are they in someone else’s country ? I believe they are fighting for freedom which is not there’s. I’m not an America but i really hate when people whine about war. You want peace ? u have to fight for it. Peace wont come without fighting.
You want freedom ? u have to fight for it.
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
The 30×113mm M230 chaingun is an excellent weapon. The 30mm shells it uses doesn’t have the velocity of other types, but it has plenty of HE to ruin your day. Personally I think we should have a weapon firing the same ammunition as a secondary weapon on our next MBT.
The Marines don’t use the Apache series, instead they operate the Super Cobra which has the older three-barreled rotary M197 20mm cannon.
Posted on September 12th, 2009 at 8:09 am
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