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Subject: pilots can't tell 20-30mm from 7.62
rocko117@excite.com    4/23/2002 10:17:58 AM
I'm really intrigued that one point of the Canadian friendly fire incident hasn't been brought up: How could a pilot think he's being fired at by ground fire that's a threat when all light infantry has is 7 or 20 m.m. Typical anti-aircraft is 30mm or 57mm. Tracers must look different. There could have been mortar fire, but I'm sure it doesn't resemble 57mm anti-aircraft, even at night.
Could someone clear this up for me?
 
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Ben    RE:pilots can't tell 20-30mm from 7.62   4/23/2002 10:31:25 AM
Rocko, sad but true... the airforce likes to fly fast, and in the blink of an eye a typical fighter jock has available its hard enough telling a SAM from a stray duck. Pilots flying things like A-10's have much better "situational awareness" of what's going on down below, but the air force doesn't think those planes are "cool" enough for them.
 
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Canadain Grunt    RE:pilots can't tell 20-30mm from 7.62   4/24/2002 8:33:47 AM
At the time they were using the LAV III with a 25mm main gun, at night "it is possable for deflections off a hard target or ground to look like fire from the ground", I want to make clear that i am "not" making excuses for the pilot, what he did was wrong, and should be held accountable.
 
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