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RAF Wainfleet.....

Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 17:18
by Chris Sykes
Is now owned by guess who.....


The ARMY!!! Great :roll: :roll: And there has been some H-53s doing some straffing with their miniguns!!!

Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 22:12
by Chris Trott
The UK Army has H-53s with Miniguns? Wait... the UK Army has H-53s? When did they actually get a competent helicopter? :lol:

Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 22:18
by Garry Russell
CS says owned by the Army and also says H-53 have been straffing but he doesn't say they are army CH-53's.....just that they are using the army owned range for practice. :wink:

Garry

Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 22:24
by Chris Trott
I guess it was a bad attempt at humor then... Guess I need more smilies at the end of the post.

On a serious note, the "H-53" aircraft were most likely MH-53M's from the 21 SOS at RAF Mildenhall. They're the only "H-53" types with miniguns. The CH-53s of the US Marine Corps have .50" Browning M2 machine guns.

Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 23:38
by Chris Sykes
theyd be the ones... I saw a guy that works there today and he said what i posted!!!.....