07 April 2009

"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"


It's not true that America doesn't manufacture anything useful. Boeing makes the 64D Apache helicopter, which can execute a barrel roll while simultaneously triggering flares to confuse heat-seeking missiles. Presumably this will awe the opposition into submission.

2 comments:

  1. Those are not munitions they're flares. I can't remember what the benefit was but for some reason in evasive maneuvers they roll and fire the flares inverted to throw off heat seeking weapons.

    Video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX3k_8WjHaU (a loop not a barrel roll)

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  2. Revised per your clarification. Thanks.

    stan

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