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Can You Tell The Difference[a challenge]

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Da_man said:
On jan. 10th, Discovery Wings becomes the the Military Channel.   Anyone else getting it?   Check out http://military.discovery.com

and heres a wallpaper on their website with a Griffon http://wings.discovery.com/convergence/military/gallery/heli_large.jpg

Thats not a griffon..........a griffon has a 4-bladed rotor...the picture you refer to has a 2-bladed rotor making it a Bell 212 ( also known as Huey...pssibly of the twin huey variety)
 
aesop081 said:
Thats not a griffon..........a griffon has a 4-bladed rotor...the picture you refer to has a 2-bladed rotor making it a Bell 212 ( also known as Huey...pssibly of the twin huey variety)

I thought it was a Griffon because of the Maple leaf and the canadian flag on the tail.
 
Well...we used to fly Bell 212's so that explains the maple leaf...but if you look at the rotor arrangement...it is not a Griffon ( AKA Bell 412).
 
Ex-Dragoon said:
One would hope seeing how he has to work on them and CP140s.

That and i have 120 flying hours in the CH-146........
 
48Highlander said:
It's an easy distinction to make.

Then i challenge to to tell me wqhat the differences are between a Krivak, Krivak II and Krivak III frigates ........enjoy
 
aesop081 said:
Then i challenge to to tell me wqhat the differences are between a Krivak, Krivak II and Krivak III frigates ........enjoy

    I fail to see how me saying that it's easy to tell a Griffon from a Bell 212 in any way relates to being able to tell the difference between frigates.  The large majority of soldiers have riden in Griffons and should be able to tell them from the 212.  I don't know too many soldiers who have been on any class of frigate.
 
It was not mean as derogatory or anything, i was just stating that before you say to someone that recognizing things is easy...you should have your game on........I've never been on a frigate either but i know how to tell them apart !!!
 
    Point taken.  I'm just surprised that someone in the army wouldn't be able to tell the difference.  I'd react the same way if they couldn't tell the difference between a C7 and an M16.  It's understandable ofcourse, not everyone has the same level of experience, and sometimes people just don't pay attention to the details.
 
I fing it very easy in AFV/ship recognition to focus on the obvious features and then get it wrong.  ON my basic aesop course we had 250 diffrent ships to ID so i know how it feels to be wrong.  But after 11 years in the army, i was surprised as to how many soldiers cannot tell the difference between a coyote and a lav  III...........or correctly ID a griffon.  Lesson is...never assume thatwhat is obvious to you will be so  for someone else !
 
48Highlander said:
    Point taken.   I'm just surprised that someone in the army wouldn't be able to tell the difference.   I'd react the same way if they couldn't tell the difference between a C7 and an M16.   It's understandable ofcourse, not everyone has the same level of experience, and sometimes people just don't pay attention to the details.


Wich one is the C7 then?  :P


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The rear sight aperature on the bottom one looks wrong..its been a while since i have seen a C7 without the optical sight but my guess is the bottom one is a C7.........i could be wrong though....
 
It's the bottom one of the two.  Above the trigger guard on the top picture, to the right...the C7 doesn't have that weird indent thing...whatever it is.  Anyway, it has got to be the bottom one.
 
The top one is deffinitely a C7.  The american M203 is different and doesn't mount that way.

I can't tell about the bottom one.  The butt and pistol grip look wrong, but it could just be the lighting.  Assuming you didn't post 2 pictures of the C7, then the bottom one is either an M16A1 or an AR15.

Anyway, I was speaking more along the lines of actually having the damn thing to hold rather than looking at two fairly small pictures in which the relevant features are distorted.
 
The upper picture is a C7, again like 48Highlander said the 203 gives it away (along with the picture being from sfu.ca/casr ;) ). The lower one is a M16A2 or model of it, you can tell by the rear sight. The Canadian version never had the elevation adjustment knob.
 
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