Posted on 12/10/2004 4:09:14 PM PST by MindBender26
Just got this by email
This is a .wav video from a F16 doing CAS during the recent fighting in Fallujah. We have been bombing insurgent "safe houses" with some success recently.
This F16 was on such a mission, to hit a building with an LGB. After the weapon had been launched 30+ insurgents left the building en masse to hurry to a nearby engagement with US Marines. The fighting had been going on for hours.
The pilot communicates with the FAC either in the air or on the ground, and changes the flight path of the bomb while it is en route the target. You can clearly see the "L" flashing in the MFD, and TGP is selected. The high pitched "Darth Vader" sounds you hear is the pilot breathing. It is the pilot who says "I got numerous individuals on the road, do you want me to take those out?" The FAC says "Take em out!"
By the way I love it when the FAC says "Oh, Dude!" at the end of the video chip.
Now I must put this in focus for you so you can get a glimpse into the complexities of the modern battlefield and the flexibility's of the modern U.S. war fighter. You have a super-sonic high performance aircraft being driven by a single pilot who, under the tactical control of a FAC, launches a precision guided munition (PGM) at a designated structure (building).
The pilot uses the aircraft's laser guidance video display to guide the weapon to the target (precision). Remember, he is also flying the aircraft. The pilot sees the video on his heads-up display and notices a bunch of combatants leaving the targeted building, turning the corner and heading down the street towards an active firefight.
The pilot advises the FAC of the change in the status of the target requesting to target the combatants en route the fire fight rather than hitting an empty building. Permission is granted and death and destruction rain down.
Just in case the abbreviations are not part of your every day vernacular I have expanded them below: CAS = Close Air Support LGB = Laser Guided Bomb FAC = Forward Air Controller MFD = Multi Function Display TGP = Terminally Guided Projectile
You see actual impact on 30+ ragheads... who never suspected a thing!
Its been around for a while if it is the video where someone says "Oh Dude!" at the end.
It is.... but it's incredible!
The "oh Dude" video was out well before Fallujah.
Yeah, but I never get tired of it!
This is a very cool video, but it's not new. Someone sent it to me about 7 months ago. Still fun to watch.... but not more than 9 or 10 times a day. Laughing too much makes my stomach hurt.
Happened during Fallujah I. Can't wait to see the stuff from Fallujah II.
Cockpit Video
http://www.priveye.com/images/Impact.wmv
Just like there's First Manassas and Second Manassas, there's also First Fallujah and Second Fallujah.
bttt
And they are very studied and deliberate as they did it....
Not sure how to find it again....
Anybody needs space to host cool stuff like this -- well, NEW stuff of course ;) -- FreepMail me!
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since I have a modem, it takes a while to download it, but man it was worth the wait.<>Thanks
don't work, goet an error message and a log in order.
mark for later ;)
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