Hydra Rockets

  • Sunday, April 18, 2010
  • Jeremy Jewell
    • This is what you might call the business end of an Apache helicopter; the M261 launcher, which houses Hydra rockets until they’re fired.  This is an essential part of the Apache helicopter if your primary mission is to fire rockets at people, which I can only assume is probably the primary mission at least some of the time.

    This one is tied for favorite of the recently posted air show pictures from last year’s show.  I’ll put up the final in this series soon.  Then you can tell me which of them is your favorite.  And I’ll tell you if you’re right or wrong.
    Hydra Rockets
    Exif information
    Model Canon EOS 20D
    Original date 2009:08:23 11:17 AM
    Exposure time 1/100 sec
    Focal length 18mm
    F-Stopf/8
    ISO speed ISO-100
    Exposure Bias0

    2 comments:

    1. Josh said...

      2. Technically, I think rockets would be fired specifically at buildings, tanks and other machinery. Some sort of mini-gun would be fired at people.

      April 18, 2010 at 1:15 PM
       
    2. Jeremy Jewell said...

      3. Well you're probably right; but there are probably people in those buildings, tanks, or other machinery.

      And based on Goldeneye on N64 and those Halo type games, I'd say firing rockets at a person is pretty normal.. At least firing them near a person is.

      April 18, 2010 at 1:20 PM
       

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