[CanRay]

A mobile bunker has it's uses

Maybe paint it with anti-enemy slogans and make the enemy wast bullets targetting it as a decoy paraded along the battlefield?

*Cough*

[The_Gun_Nut]

Quick point of interest regarding the minigun and other rotary, multi-barrelled weapons:  There is no lag time to spinning up the barrels.  That is entirely a game balance conceit from video games.  In reality, once the firing trigger is depressed, the weapon is firing.  Each barrel is in various states of loading and unloading, with one barrel containing a live round with the mechanism ready to fire.

I've removed the so called "spin up time" from my games, because it is completely silly.  No one would engineer a weapon that way, in the first place, and IRL no one has.

[CanRay]

Even hand-crank Gatling Weapons worked that way, IIRC.

[Charybdis]

Quick point of interest regarding the minigun and other rotary, multi-barrelled weapons:  There is no lag time to spinning up the barrels.  That is entirely a game balance conceit from video games.  In reality, once the firing trigger is depressed, the weapon is firing.  Each barrel is in various states of loading and unloading, with one barrel containing a live round with the mechanism ready to fire.

I've removed the so called "spin up time" from my games, because it is completely silly.  No one would engineer a weapon that way, in the first place, and IRL no one has.

Hey, I'm with you. I just use it cause it's RAW

I never understood how the ammo would start feeding into a 300'ish revolutions-per-minute if it wasn't already chambered....

[Stahlseele]

yes the GAU-8 is the baddest of flight weapons

you do know that there's one plane that actually mounts a 120mm artillery cannon in the side, right?

[kirk]

yes the GAU-8 is the baddest of flight weapons

you do know that there's one plane that actually mounts a 120mm artillery cannon in the side, right?

Yep. And the GAU-12 -- which though smaller and with less recoil puts MORE lead downrange. Not quite as good on tanks, but on everything else it's better.

Trolls take the 8, Ogres grab the 12, I guess.

[CanRay]

When someone in the US Military is asking "Spooky" for some air support, you know drek is going down.

[The_Gun_Nut]

Actually had a game where our runners intercepted a transmission from the op-force.  It was just two little words:

BROKEN ARROW!

My character never ran so hard in his life.

[bigity]

I was late to the party but I see kirk has already brought up the GAU-12.

The AC-130 is completely bad ass.

To think I almost applied to be a 'sensor operator' on one of those.  Oh well, I didn't stay in so wouldn't have happened.  OTOH, I'd be nearly retired already

[bigity]

Actually had a game where our runners intercepted a transmission from the op-force.  It was just two little words:

BROKEN ARROW!

My character never ran so hard in his life.

FYI, broken arrow refers to an accident (aka not an intentional launch/detonation) involving a nuclear weapon.  

[The_Gun_Nut]

Not really.

Back in the day it referred to an American military unit that was about to be overrun.  It authorized and called for every airborne military asset in the area to attack that position.  Watch the Mel Gibson movie "We Were Soldiers" to see it in action.

[bigity]

In Vietnam, yes.

In the Air Force dealing with nukes, it referred to an accident.  I have no doubt in different services or even commands it means different things.

[The_Gun_Nut]

We were dealing with ground units, not missile silos.  If your shadowrunning team is infiltrating a missile silo, then both versions may be appropriate.

[bigity]

Looked like we were talking about the Warthog and then the AC-130 to me

[CanRay]

What do you think gets scrambled your your area RDQ when "BROKEN ARROW" gets called out?