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Additional duties include delivering munitions to the flightline where weapons troops will load them. [ 1 ] Munitions Systems specialists also operate and maintain a wide variety of equipment and electronic gear, from pallet jacks, 40-foot (12 m) tractor-trailer combination vehicles, all-terrain 10,000 pound forklifts, and 100,000 pound forklifts.
Combat Assault Operations: includes various factors encompassed in an air assault operation such as: components of an air assault mission, the reverse planning sequence, duties and responsibilities of platoon-level personnel during an air assault, static load training, and a simulated combat assault on UH-60 aircraft
The bullet from a squib stuck in the barrel must never be cleared by subsequently attempting to fire a live or blank round in the weapon. Blank rounds use a type of powder different from that of other rounds, and generate much more pressure, which, combined with the presence of the projectile obstructing the barrel, may cause the firearm to ...
Every bullet type and load will have different ballistics. .308 Federal 175 grain (11.3 g) BTHP match shoots at 2,600 ft/s (790 m/s). Zeroed at 100 yards (100 m), a 16.2 MOA adjustment would have to be made to hit a target at 600 yards (500 m). If the same bullet was shot with 168 grain (10.9 g), a 17.1 MOA adjustment would be necessary.
In 2008 the EXACTO program began under DARPA to develop a "fire and forget" smart sniper rifle system including a guided smart bullet and improved scope. The exact technologies of this smart bullet have not been released. EXACTO was test fired in 2014 and 2015 and results showing the bullet alter course to correct its path to its target were ...
In April, the US Navy posted a photo of Cmdr. Cameron Yaste firing a rifle with the scope mounted backward. The photo was later deleted after it was mocked online. US Navy/Web Archive
The Navy said Yaste was relieved of duty “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer” that's currently deployed in the Gulf of Oman.
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