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Video: "I've got numerous individuals on the road, you want me to take those out?"

Drivin' that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones you better
watch your speed
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed my mind
 
MFD cockpit video of F16 engaging insurgents in Fallujah
posted 07-07-2004 19:38
  • As some of you may know I live right next to Whiteman AFB, home of the B2, in Missouri. A friend of mine is hosting this video but it may not be up for long as he has limited bandwidth, so don't stream it, do the "right click, save as..." instead.

    This is an F16 doing CAS during the recent fighting in Fallujah. As you know we have been bombing insurgent "safe houses" with some sucess recently. This F16 was on such a mission, to hit a house with an LGB, when 30+ insurgents left the building en masse to hurry to a nearby engagement with US Marines which had been going on for hours. The pilot communicates with an FAC either in the air or on the ground, and changes the flight path of the bomb while it is in the air. You can clearly see the "L" flashing in the MFD, and "TGP" is selected.

    I'm assuming that the bomb itself is probably a 500 pounder, as Mk84s would be overkill in an urban setting where the ROE calls for minimal "collateral damage".

    I don't know how long the video will be up, but, regardless of your opinions about the war in Iraq, its a good example of what the real thing looks like.
 
Yeah but, his aerial position goes from over and in front of the group to over and behind while the camera swivels. It's as if the camera would have had to be controlled by a rotary arm with a radius of 500 ft, or his jet would have had to spurt ahead 500 ft instaneously with the camera pivot.
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Yeah but, his aerial position goes from over and in front of the group to over and behind while the camera swivels. It's as if the camera would have had to be controlled by a rotary arm with a radius of 500 ft, or his jet would have had to spurt ahead 500 ft instaneously with the camera pivot.
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The orientation of his jet was such that he was almost directly overhead, but not quite. The camera system must work to keep everything on screen right side up. If it had simply tracked the target without doing the quick pan, everything would be upside down when the jet passed over.

So... it panned to the side instead of just pointing down and behind, if that makes sense.
 
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