https://smallarmsreview.com/design-secrets-of-the-general-electric-armament-systems-department/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRai95leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFxSTNtZ1Exa3lrTTJXZDB2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmupIdLb-HuR8UPZKA4ay-qAM3PsMtMBiy8Vb0V0uMkmEnHGil1ZOZoEVn3E_aem_e9TcpU96pSgOKGUVWDKf4ghow did you miss this one /k/?AMA I grew up on the "Underhill Range" in the article.
>how did you miss this one /k/?I didnt have unrestricted internet access in 2008, and it wouldn't be unreasonable to say many posters were still in diapers at the time.
>>65107664fair but, as a long time /k/ enjoyer I have LITERALLY never seen these photos, or this article. This range is part of the 10th Mountain Division's Mountain Warfare training centers, 1 of 3 in the US, including Colorado and Alaska. There's a good bit of untold /k/ lore about this base :).GAU 8 tests are not uncommon.
>>65107664many of them still are
>>65107664I've had unrestricted internet access since 1994. I was 11 at the time.
>>65107664You're too optimistic. We're probably 70% middle aged or older.
>>65107660>GAU thread>>65110676Less said about /ak/ the better.
>>65107660gao~
>>65107660>AMA I grew up on the "Underhill Range" in the article.Fun article OP, never saw those photos either. Also always fun to see a fellow woodchuck. I assume you must have gone up to the Rod & Gun much more than over to Laberge's for rangefun? Unfortunately I never really got up much to look even from the outside at the Underhill one as a kid, but the Ethan Allen Firing Range has public tours each year which can be fun to go to one of. They also do "operation bullseye" I think, but at any rate once per year for free the public can come and shoot and get help zeroing at distances (>1200yd) we don't have much of in vt. I think it's always late september.Another location nearby with some much older but really important /k/ history is the American Precision Museum, the rifles they came up with there were revolutionary in method for the time and blew brit minds when they saw them. Really fun place to go. I finally finally got around to going a few months ago, had meant to forever but funny how when something is nearby and you could "go anytime" somehow "anytime" never seems to quite come. Love seeing this article after that even more, some cool gun and tool development on opposite sides of our tiny middle of nowhere state a century apart.
>>65107660>Miniguns were finding application everywhere. Pods, helicopter pintles and internal aircraft applications were all being manufactured along with a module system used for side firing these guns from AC-47 cargo planes – a deadly system nicknamed “Puff the Magic Dragon.”That made me chuckle.Also pro-tip op: you can remove all that crap after the "?" in the URL, all that is for tracking and shit and it works fine without it.
>>65107660>LITERALLYOP is a faggothttps://smallarmsreview.com/design-secrets-of-the-general-electric-armament-systems-department/
>>65112796there are various "url cleaner" extensions that automate removing all the tracking crap. firefox also has a "copy clean link" feature, you can modify userchrome to make it default, then you don't end up pasting it around.
>>65107660>>65112796it's a cool enough /k/ history article to give it a last bump. gatling guns are based
