RX: "I want one of these gun pods for my car!"
Me: "It's rated for Mach point six eight..."
RX: "Point seven five."
Me: "...so it should surely be able to handle the velocities of the Hottest Needle of Inquiry."
RX: "And it has a 'spent links and fired case collector' so I won't get a flat!"
Monday, August 26, 2013
Overheard in the Hallway...
FN's full-line catalog is an honest-to-Browning full-line catalog, containing everything from CCW pistols and Sporting Clays shotguns to remote-operated .50-cal machine gun vehicle mounts and gun pods for tactical air support. It's currently in the reading room here at Roseholme Cottage...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
12 comments:
Of course, these pods mount the FN M3P 50 caliber machine gun. If you spend some time on their site, you discover "This product is not available for purchase online." Darn!
So, I had look up what a "Hot Needle of Inquiry" really was (if you can use the word "really" in regards to something from a work of fiction), which results in the question "What good are those FN products when vessel hulls are impervious to nothing but visible light, antimatter and gravity?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Products
But, one might suppose that the "pew, pew, pew" would be therapeutic, but the impermeability of the hull to acoustic waves might prevent that.
I wish I still had my Car Wars boxed set now.
I love how their demo photo has a propeller-driven plane. Throwback with style.
Of course the catalog links are blocked by the firewall at work. Was hoping for a smile with lunch. ;)
I think you might like having the Dillon Aero mini-gun on a pop-up in the Subie.
ProdigalSon:
Purpose built fighters and ground attack craft already have guns on them ( unless you drive an F-4 ).
Their market would be small countries retrofitting prop and turboprop aircraft.
Kristophr,
Dedicated COIN aircraft like the BAe Strikemaster & Hawk, Embraer Super Tucano, Pilatus PC-21, and others often have no guns or a couple .3" or .5" guns, and rely on hardpoint-mounted ordnance for their punch.
Also, helicopters.
Like I said ... prop and turbo prop aircraft.
I can see the utility of putting a couple of those FN pods on in place of bombs.c
Or adding them to a helicopter ... that one completely slipped my mind, thanx.
Kristophr,
"Like I said ... "
"Purpose built ... ground attack craft"
Super Tucano, PC-21, Strikemaster, Hawk, helicopters...
Forget the gun mount. How can I get one of those catalogs?
Googled "FN's full-line catalog" and got a couple of links to the UN. I don't understand.
Post a Comment