WT Forums

Well you guys know more than I do about what happen during OIF/OEF, I would like to know why the cases are painted red and why we were using such old lots of ammo??? <img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>

Ugly But Well Hung

Is there a possibilty that the 30mm rounds were supposed to be used for another 30mm gun, like the AH64 ? Just curious if the same manufacturer makes the munitions and if they somehow got shipped ? Doesnt really matter because the damn things worked and hopefully shagged a lot of black hatted villains.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

_________________
YGBSM !

DICE,
YOU THINK THEY USED THESE SHELLS FOR "MARKING TARGETS"?
ANY OF THE DRIVERS REMEMBER FIRING TRACER ROUNDS? I WOULD IMAGINE YOU WOULD NOTICE IT.

MONEY TALKS,B.S. JUST PILES UP.

_________________
\"Live Free Or Die\"

I fired some red-ish HEI rounds at Spang a few years ago. They were not the bright red like in the pic, but they were certainly more red than green.

If Raven is still around maybe knows something.

So, you have trouble. We all have trouble. Build a bridge and get over it.

_________________
\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

Like I said before I'll ask the ammo SPO first chance I get.

Ugly But Well Hung

I have 3 red shells from Bagram. I had no idea at the time that red shells were unique.
They say the same as Hitlers, but I read a few digits differently, could just be me though (like confusing a D for a 0, or a B for a D, that kind of thing.)

I read mine as follows:
28109580-001P
30MM HEI PGU-13/B
Ol-2B-20-77

2B107310-L
USE 3-4-77

FYI, the rounds the 355th (Eielson) fired over there recently were all green. I saw someone carring a giant bag full of them in the AMU the other day and he said they were from the desert

Without ME, it's just AWESO

Edited by - jackb on Dec 13 2004 11:39 AM

Bump...

Dice,

Did you ever get any words on the different colors on the shell caseings? just wondering

capche-capche da - we go forward together

Faugh ah Ballaugh -Clear The Way-

_________________


Faugh ah Ballaugh ~ Clear the Way

2002 timeframe was when we had the Red 30MM rounds in our jets at Bagram.

Just regular HEI from what I remember. Although the SOB's @ Al Jabber wouldn't let us take them home with us a few of them mad it back.

Recently though (last time at "The Bag" was Nov 2003-Apr 2004) we had all green rounds. Hope that helps a little.

"SSgt stripes coming July 2K5!"

_________________
3 Branches down... 2 to go!
Put on your tinfoil hats, the black choppers are coming, and I'm calling them in.
Former DCC OA-10A T/N 80-278

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> 2002 timeframe was when we had the Red 30MM rounds in our jets at Bagram. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Yeah, me and Hitler where there summer 2002 if that also helps narrow down the timeframe.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand Binary, and those who don't.

All green July-Oct '03, too.

So, you have trouble. We all have trouble. Build a bridge and get over it.

_________________
\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
We think (still looking into it) the PGU-13B mean it was one of a few lots of tracer rounds bought from 1973-179 which were used during gun testing. The red case color was insure the round was not loaded into a combat aircraft by mistake.

Hitler, you may had a colloctors item there.

Ugly But Well Hung
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

Dice, this may ring a bell with you. Quite a ways back (prob atleast 2 yrs), I posted a pic of a purple shell casing. It been a while, but what i remember was it had something to do with it special ammo used for early testing. I searched for the pic, but have lost alot of files since then. So now we have green, red and purple...whats the next color thats gonna pop up <img src=newicons/tard.gif border=0 align=middle>

<img src="http://members.aol.com/a10warthog99/images/signature%202.jpg" border=0>

I THINK WE NEED,YELLOW ,ORANGE AND BROWN ONES THEN WE COULD SAY TO THE PILOTS "HEY YOU GOT A LOAD OF M&M'S ON BOARD" INSTEAD OF "PARTY MIX"<img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>
I'M PULLING A 30MM HERE<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

GOOD TOO SEE YOU TERRY!
OH BY THE WAY YOU CAN TAKE BACK THE ARTIC AIR YOU LET SLIP BY YOU,-5 AINT GOOD FOR A OLD GOOSE.

MONEY TALKS,B.S. JUST PILES UP.

_________________
\"Live Free Or Die\"

That or we could tell the enemy to "Taste the rainbow"<img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

capche-capche da - we go forward together

Faugh ah Ballaugh -Clear The Way-

_________________


Faugh ah Ballaugh ~ Clear the Way