Muff Millen Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Check out this web site for the latest info on the Boing laser http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22975 Very interesting. Muff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 amazing stuff. and did you also see, a one mile radius kill zone in the event of a crash. that sux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 The one mile kill radius thing is BS. Its an unconfirmed answer to someones question, and I have a huge problem believing that the small amount (relatively) of chemicals would be lethal outside of 2 or 300 feet (Probably some green peacer type smelly hippy homo made that answer!). No collateral damage, targets that melt, man where is the fun in that? Of course if they could manage to make hadji\'s melt that would make good footage but I much prefer to watch their bits clear the explosion Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I couldn\'t make out the tail number, but the nose on this one reminds me of one of the old drone launchers.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railrunner130 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 That\'s an oddball for sure. It\'s got the older wire antennae up top, square paratroop windows and the forward cargo compartment window. Not to mention the radar and of course the laser itself. It must extend downward after takeoff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 We were just beginning to look into this project when I left ASETS in 98. It is awesome to see it come to fruition. My understanding is that the turret was be to pulled from 55-0022 (NC-130A) following it\'s retirement and installed in c/n [cn]4131[/cn] 65-0979(HC-130H re designated NC-130H.) Looks like that has happened. Here is a pic of 979 taken from 22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashmore Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Looks like Pinocchio. Do they use it to transport the Clintons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Hillary don\'t need no plane to fly! Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Your right!!! heres her mode of transport..... [img size=120]http://herkybirds.com/images/fbfiles/images/broom.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hc130radio Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Muff Millen wrote: Check out this web site for the latest info on the Boing laser http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22975 Very interesting. Muff This aircraft is currently at Kirtland AFB. From what I hear from some of my aerial delivery friends (loadmasters) that have helped load the laser components in the back it, it\'s pretty cool looking...lot\'s of weird stuff...Also, I go to school at night with some Boeing guys that have helped out with some of the laser testing. Cool stories... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmac_Project Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 They did a lot of the work up at Crestview in 2006 before sending it out west. Engine Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graywolf Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 May or may not be the same project. Just read about a 40,000 pound COIL laser in Popular Science. Found a link on some of the Boeing PDFs and posted it. Weight information is way off. It could be a different project. http://herkybirds.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=26&func=view&id=1965&catid=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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