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Offline Turkey

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« on: November 28, 2004, 10:54:52 pm »
A PC-9 was seen on thursday in Bal' with gun and rocket pods fitted.
They are to do air-to-ground shooting in the next few weeks, at a floating target at sea, location presently unknown, [to me anyway].
Zulu, of Robot Wars, fame built the target,[Ch***t, it will probally fire back!! ]
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2004, 03:28:36 pm »
Theyre firing at the offshore range in Gormo!
Couldnt fire yesterday due to technical probs but I seen one go early this morning.
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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2004, 05:02:22 pm »
How many are armed now, and with what?
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2004, 06:15:15 pm »
We'll Ive seen at least 4 of them with the pods on, i.e two FN .5 machine guns(one on each wing) and one rocket pod (2.75inch FFAR's) outboard of each gun.
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2004, 12:37:15 pm »
Has anyone got pics of them firing ?
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2004, 01:24:00 pm »
Don`t think they`ve fired yet, in Ireland anyway.



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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2004, 02:42:01 pm »
Firing yesterday and today and for the next two weeks weather permitting
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« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2004, 06:36:10 pm »
Some pics of them firing - or even better, some video footage - would be great to see !


Incidentially, was there ever any video footage of the Marchetti's firing, or the Fouga's for that matter ?
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« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2004, 10:19:50 am »
Is it Air to Ground , Air to Air or both.

Will they be Jaffa's i.e. firing blanks ?
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« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2004, 06:49:51 pm »
r there any pics of them avaiable anywer?
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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2004, 02:40:48 am »
I got to see the guns in the armoury when I paid a visit recently, are you sure they're .5s P.Doff? they looked more like 20mm to me!
I couldn't believe that the PC9 can pull 9g! Jeez, I remember blacking out at 6g in a Fouga, but 9g with a prop on the front!
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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2004, 02:08:46 pm »
Firing in Gormo, watched yesterday, live firing too, very impressive, I could see 4 hardpoints (2 each wing) not sure if there were rocket pods and guns, it seemed to have pods on the inner hardpoints on each wing. Only firing guns while i was there, they were very accurate too, so impressive to watch, gave me a lump in my throat! stacks of locals have been heading down to watch. sorry, no decent camera, tried to get one or two on a dodgy kodak, bring binocs too, oh yeah, and have fun! they are VERY loud, VERY nippy, and VERY cool. I envy the pilots. '<img'>
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« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2004, 04:29:26 pm »
Whats the viewing like? Would it be wortwhile heading up for a look?
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« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2004, 06:25:36 pm »
Do you know if they will be in action on Monday or Tuesday ?

Best viewing spots (outside 'restricted' zones of course) ?
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« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2004, 11:03:33 pm »
yes,

best viewing point is to head down the balbriggan to gormanston road,take the Gormanston Train station turnoff, go up over the tracks on the humpback bridge, keep going about 50 yards until you reach the last bend and can look down onto the beach from above. Theres a red flag right there, you can observe perfectly from there and with a decent zoom on a good camera you should get excellent pics.

you will see off to your left the floating orange target, facing it, the PC9s fly from your left to right, opening fire over the fields before beginning to climb just as they are out over the beach and you can watch the strafing runs for hours  '<img'>

Hope to get up again myself maybe for the rockets if they are firing them from there.

BTW deffo looked to make quite big splashes, i doubt the guns are .5 i would reckon they are larger than that.
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