Will there ever be gun turrets on aircraft again?

nope.

>>33473607
Maybe one that shoots air to air missiles.

Don't B-52s have turrets?

>>33473646
some originally had a radar controlled tailgun. they took them off decades ago.

>>33473646
yeah, back in the first decade it was created

>>33473646

Not since Desert Storm.

>>33473646
they've been removed to save wieght. Still the largest aircraft to obtain an air-to-air kill

>>33473607
No, and we all should be thankful.

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>>33473665

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>>33473714

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COMFY

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>>33473607

>>33473607
the important question you should be asking is "will there ever be hot naked women painted on aircraft again?"

lots of SJWism in the military these days

>>33473773
>SJW
This. Seriously, Emperor Stump should allow it again, his ratings would jump up even higher.

>>33473742
lame, I thought it was going to be something like hitting a low flying plane on a bombing run or something badass like that.

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>>33473759
Not so comfy

>>33473665
Pretty sure they were mainly removed after that friendly AGM-88 locked onto the gun's radar and almost killed an entire bomber crew.

>>33473759
until you realize the only thing that glass protects you from is the wind.

>>33473796
>women quit the chairforce all on their own
>Uncle Sam says don't let the door hit your wide asses on the way out

Pretty sure Tu-22Ms still have a rear turret

>>33473826
They can paint naked guys with big dicks on their planes for all I care (nohomo).

>>33473838
Yes, Russians are known for leading the way in technological advancement & innovation.

>>33473809
nothing like spooning a couple ma deuces

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>>33473607
Yes, unmanned ones.

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b-36 was peak turret design

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>>33473855
>entire plane body painted as a dick and balls
Fund it.

>>33473895
>>33473895
>gun will fire if rotated by hand

kek, why is that? electrical contact? i wonder how many privates ran up to spin it before they had to start painting those warnings

>>33473859
It's only gay if the belts touch.

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>>33473901
Not even close.

>>33473901
I wish I could see those in action....

>>33473770
Scrapped, literally

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I don't understand why centurions haven't been put on planes yet to shoot down incoming missiles. I understand fighters are too light, but couldn't larger planes designed to carry a turret just fly in formation with fighters like how our navy works on the ocean to give CIWS?

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>>33473941
>kek, why is that? electrical contact?
No, it's a Gatling gun. The trigger is entirely synchronized to the rotation of the barrels and operated mechanically. All the shooty-bits will work when it is loaded and spun, whether spun by hand or spun by an electric motor.
>i wonder how many privates ran up to spin it before they had to start painting those warnings
Probably none.

>>33474016
That was the wrong webm. I can't seem to find the right one but I was trying to post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjEA4HLQnhA

>>33474047>>33474016
>>33474016
oh wow i see. i wonder how hard it is to spin, has inertia from landings or anything ever set one off by accident?

>>33474016
>posts Vulcan
>accident
You won't trick me, Britbong.

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>>33474047
This?

>>33474001
Weight.
Cost
>Need

Yknow other things that aren't pure performance.

>Will there ever be gun turrets on aircraft again?

Depends.

Are lasers guns?

>>33474474
Another thing to consider is that CIWS emits a huge radar signal to find and track its targets.
So for the possibility of maybe shooting down a tiny A2A missile, you have a huge "Shoot me!" signal on your plane.
Not being shot is far superior to possibly shooting down a missile.

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>>33474108
>has inertia from landings or anything ever set one off by accident?
Probably not. I imagine whenever it's powered up the drive motor actively resists rotation until the trigger is depressed.
>>33474157
But I'm Burger, not Bong. I assumed (incorrectly) that Vulcan.webm would be an M61 Vulcan.

>>33474509
Lasers on aircraft would be a huge bitch since you'd need to factor the weight of the laser itself AND the power supply/storage.

Maybe a C-130 loaded with nothing but a laser, power supply and tracking systems could be feasible, but you'll never see it on fighters.

Moreover, with a theoretically instantaneous projectile and range limited only by weather and the curvature of the Earth, why would you even need them in the sky?

>>33474629

Maybe viable as some kind of missile defense system? Or perhaps knock fighters out of the air from outside the range of their missiles?

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>>33473805
>Shoot down a then state-of-the-art jet fighter with WW2 tier machine guns in a plane that's dodging fire.
>lame

God I want to kick your ass so badly right now.

>>33473607
God I hope not. What a horrible way to die.

>>33473855
>guys with big dicks
>not traps with cute little cocks

Please kill yourself.

>>33474629
Lasers have nowhere near unlimited range, even at massive power settings. The air, especially the water in it, ignoring diffraction even, absorbs a lot of energy.

>>33473959
Ma-Dueces are never gay.

>>33473607
someone post the story of when they did a wheels up landing with one of these things

>>33475384
the ball turret gunner would survive a belly landing most of the time just fine. The ball was a sturdy little cunt and would often just get forced up into the aircraft breaking less sturdy things along the way. The bigger issue is that the ball gunner was difficult to extract even under ideal circumstances, a fire starting after a crash landing was almost almost fatal.

>>33474514
>Another thing to consider is that CIWS emits a huge radar signal to find and track its targets.
>So for the possibility of maybe shooting down a tiny A2A missile, you have a huge "Shoot me!" signal on your plane.
Isn't that the point of wild weasel?
You could deploy a formation like this just to thin out enemy air defences.

>>33473805
There was a B-52 in Desert Storm that got fired at by a Wild Wiesel F-4.
The tail-gun radar on the B-52 got a lock on the F-4 as it flew behind, F-4 pilot thought radar was a SAM-site, lobbed a HARM at it and scared the shit out of all involved.

>>33475429
>>33475384

I thought the ball turret was unoccupied during TO and landing, at least as far as SOP went?

>>33475496
hatch gets stuck

>>33475496
Of course, assuming something stupid doesn't happen. To be fair, the sort of thing that would prevent the ball gunner from leaving the turret is also the sort of thing that would just straight up kill him in the first place so it really wasn't much of a problem in that sense.

>>33473809
I would cum continuously with them throbbing against me

They are planning on putting a laser on the F-35 as a ciws.

>>33473809
How do you piss while on a 6 hour bombing run?

>>33475589
in your pants

>>33475589
Directly in your flight suit, followed by
>>33475531 .

>>33475505
Wasn't that an episode of The Outer Limits?

>>33475589
You piss yourself.

I wouldn't worry too much about leaving a mess, since they're going to be taking a steam hose to the ball turret as soon as you land.

>From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
>And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
>Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
>I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
>When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

>>33475772
Yes.Transsexualism is every bit as false as transracialism. I am not a black man. I wasn't raised in the kind of environment so many American black men live through. I don't understand their struggle, or their way of life. If I were to claim that I identify as a black male i'd be denigrating the worth of every single black male in existence. Why is it any different when a man identifies as a woman, or a woman identifies as a man? Why is the color of our skin a barrier when our chromosomes are not?

>>33473809
Is that how babies are made?

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>>33475772
>>33475883

>>33474016
The bolts travel in a firing or a clearing pathway, the firing pin sends a firing voltage through as well as striking a primer. At least that's how a Vulcan works

>>33474108
The rotation would be minimal at best

>>33473759

So comfy sticking out as a sore thumb against enemy cannons.

>>33477725
Typically enemy fighters would be aiming for the engines instead of the turrets.

>>33473652
>radar controlled tailgun
Fuck me, that's cool

>>33476048
Vulcan's use an entirely electrical primer. It can't actually be set off from impact.