Fire away

Lee M de marco

Oct 23rd 2009, 11:19

I was 1 of the solders doing the course .as for Alexander Morana,if u think that's a waste of tax payer's mony, where do you think all the minister's new BMWs and private jets come from?
as for David A. Agius (Not the M.P.).we'r not about to shoot @ live aircraft,or radio controlled ones(so as not to waste tax payers money)so insted we bult our own target,and took it out to sea.that gun fires armor piercing rounds,making it an effective anti tank gun as well.now a days its used more for ground targets.

joe portelli

Oct 17th 2009, 06:36

@ David A. Agius (Not the M.P.)

the No. 1 Regiment of the AFM's Air Defence and Support Company, cannot defend your comment I suppose so I'll have a go.

Live-fire artillery training is measured on target hits , and as no areoplane targets were available at the time they utilised the Pembroke shooting range equipped with safe target monitoring and the sea as a back drop rather than shooting in the air and droping where ever the wind chooses.

Alexander Morana

Oct 16th 2009, 21:04

What a waste of time and tax payers’ money, those weapons systems are old and obsolete. No body nowadays in modern armed forces uses manual and man manned anti- aircraft high caliber systems, unless they are being used for low flying aircrafts.
How about some the - US Hawk air-to air system, The British Rapier and the new Russian Sam 303 of which Iran wants to get their hands on!

D. A . Agius

Oct 16th 2009, 11:19

ehmmm... ...

Congrats for the soldiers doing the course but I have a small question. If the course was for an anti-aircraft machine gun, why is the gun pointing horizontal? I know that some planes fly really low but this looks a tad ridiculous, does it? Same was seen on the timesofmalta.com video yesterday...