Chinooks..

[thumper]

Yeah, 25 sounds good. big enough to really mess with the battle lines.

I was at the flying J on I-20@hw321 a few days ago and they had these 24" pump foam rockets that looked like they would fit over a paintball markers barrel (or fired via exististing pump mechanism)

http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/gsi/gsi12901.htm
Geospace International's Pump Rocket


STINGERs
mogs: if you guys could demonstrate one of these working in action, and control the speed that it fires to "very safe" I think we make have a player friendly Stinger Rocket for anti-aircraft.

say like max range of 60 feet -- 3 MOG Stinger operators max.

(ps: a lot of the LAW RPGs that shoot nerf footballs look like they could bust you up pretty bad and should not be considered for firing at people or helos and unless some one is planning on bringing a tank, they arent allowed)

[Dracula53]

I thought fort bening was Army, chinooks are Marines. I know some of the Army guys I have talked to didn't like them, they even envented a little pun on there name.
at lest I allways belived they where marine air craft.

[DeepFreeze]

CH-47 "Chinooks" are an Army asset. Here is a good link to some information on the Chinook. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/h-47.htm

The US Marines utilize the H-53 for helicopter heavy transport as well as H-46 Sea Knights which look like the CH-47's little brother.

[spyderman]

Originally Posted by Dracula53

I thought fort bening was Army, chinooks are Marines. I know some of the Army guys I have talked to didn't like them, they even envented a little pun on there name.
at lest I allways belived they where marine air craft.

listen to the deep he knows what he's talking about.I was in the marines and have never seen one in action,but that doesn't say much I have seen the apache in action and they aren't marine aircraft.

[DeepFreeze]

I wasn't in the Marines or Army, I was smart and decided to cruise around from port to port in the Navy, but I did learn a thing or thirty about helicopters. I am an air traffic controllers and had to deal with the Marine aircraft when we transferred NAS Miramar to MCAS Miramar. As far as helicopters go, I had my share of fun dealing with whirly birds at NAS North Island and NAF Imperial Beach.

[Steers]

Originally Posted by spyderman

listen to the deep he knows what he's talking about.I was in the marines and have never seen one in action,but that doesn't say much I have seen the apache in action and they aren't marine aircraft.

We're you ever in combat?

[spyderman]

Originally Posted by Steers

We're you ever in combat?

nope,I was lucky enough to have been in between wars lol

[drewcif]

Originally Posted by Steers

We're you ever in combat?

steers we are looking to give you some first hand paintball combat experience coming up not too long from now.....

Drew

[Aerion]

Originally Posted by DeepFreeze

CH-47 "Chinooks" are an Army asset. Here is a good link to some information on the Chinook. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/h-47.htm

The US Marines utilize the H-53 for helicopter heavy transport as well as H-46 Sea Knights which look like the CH-47's little brother.

I was in Army aviation and I can assure you that Deep is correct. I've had pleasure of riding on UH-1H Huey, UH-1M Huey ('Mike' model gunship), CH-47 Chinook (or 'Shithooks' as we called them), UH-60 Black Hawk and OH-58 Kiawa (pre-Longbow). I've also all but flown in a AH-64 Apache (also pre-Longbow) and AH-1A Cobra.

[Aerion]

Originally Posted by [sm] drewcif

no we should be able to fire at chinooks lol because they are slow... the rangers i mean...

oh well....they really are a good ideam, and the 150 rule should definetly still be in effect, but they should have special places to land because they are so large


Drew

Actually Shithooks are very fast for helicopters. I don't remember the exact numbers but they are around as fast as Blackhawks if not faster. The double main rotors give it incredible speed.