Bidding may be bypassed in $12.2B military deals
- Thread starter Pikache
- Start date
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 210
The purpose of a Muzzle break is not to minimize (counteract) recoil, because the amount of Force acted on the Gun during expansion of gases onto the projectie while inside the guntube (closed system), is negliable to the amount of Force acted onto the gun during the moment when the projectile leaves the muzzle (open system), therefore the amount of force acting on to the gun to account for recoil at the moment of projection is minimal because it is an open system, the expanding gases are no longer acting onto the projectile,
The purpose of the muzzle break is to (1) direct/vent the gases opposite and equally to the horizontal of the muzzle for add to tube stability, not to reduce recoil (2) tactical concealment.
The purpose of the muzzle break is to (1) direct/vent the gases opposite and equally to the horizontal of the muzzle for add to tube stability, not to reduce recoil (2) tactical concealment.
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 210
New Herc plane passes pilot's test
By STEPHANIE RUBEC, PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU
A veteran Canadian Forces pilot flying for the U.S. Marine Corps on an exchange program yesterday mounted a heated defence of the newly designed Hercules transport plane on the Defence Department's wish list.
Capt. Steve Lamarche slammed defence industry insiders who've labelled the Hercules C-130J a lemon and he dismissed two Pentagon reports that have labelled it "unfit" for service.
Lamarche has spent 500 hours flying the new C-130Js with the Marine Corps in North Carolina.
VETERAN FLYER
He's clocked another 4,500 hours flying Canada's older Hercules models during his 16 years in the Canadian Forces, first as a navigator and since 1998 as a pilot.
"I truly enjoy the new aircraft for its reliability and technological advantages over the older aircraft I used to fly back home," said Lamarche. "The aircraft has performed extremely well in all conditions."
Today, the Canadian military will ask ministers who sit on a special cabinet committee to approve the purchase of $12.2 billion in aircraft, including a new search and rescue fixed-wing plane, troop-transport helicopters and replacements for Canada's 32 Hercules.
Military brass and defence industry insiders think only the new C-130J will meet the requirements of a new transport plane fleet because of budget constraints.
A Pentagon report published last year found the aircraft was "unfit for duty" -- unable to drop heavy equipment, operate well in cold weather or perform combat search-and-rescue missions.
Lamarche said the C-130J did perform those kinds of missions.
By STEPHANIE RUBEC, PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU
A veteran Canadian Forces pilot flying for the U.S. Marine Corps on an exchange program yesterday mounted a heated defence of the newly designed Hercules transport plane on the Defence Department's wish list.
Capt. Steve Lamarche slammed defence industry insiders who've labelled the Hercules C-130J a lemon and he dismissed two Pentagon reports that have labelled it "unfit" for service.
Lamarche has spent 500 hours flying the new C-130Js with the Marine Corps in North Carolina.
VETERAN FLYER
He's clocked another 4,500 hours flying Canada's older Hercules models during his 16 years in the Canadian Forces, first as a navigator and since 1998 as a pilot.
"I truly enjoy the new aircraft for its reliability and technological advantages over the older aircraft I used to fly back home," said Lamarche. "The aircraft has performed extremely well in all conditions."
Today, the Canadian military will ask ministers who sit on a special cabinet committee to approve the purchase of $12.2 billion in aircraft, including a new search and rescue fixed-wing plane, troop-transport helicopters and replacements for Canada's 32 Hercules.
Military brass and defence industry insiders think only the new C-130J will meet the requirements of a new transport plane fleet because of budget constraints.
A Pentagon report published last year found the aircraft was "unfit for duty" -- unable to drop heavy equipment, operate well in cold weather or perform combat search-and-rescue missions.
Lamarche said the C-130J did perform those kinds of missions.
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 210
We designed NO warships used by the RCN (or any other navy) in WWI or WWII. We may have designed a merchie or two, and there were a few gate vessles and minor patrol vessles used by the RCNR that were basically civvy craft pressed into service.Recce41 said:
Canada BUILT quite a few British-designed Flower-class corvettes and other hulls up to destroyer. All those built in Canada were British designed.
After the war Canada designed and built warships (the Restigouche class for example) and after the late sixties (when the last of the WWII Tribals and the Bonnie were retired) never employed surface warships that weren't designed and built in Canada.
Similar threads
