Alicatt Posted October 26, 2010 Posted October 26, 2010 Living close to an airbase with F16s and also between 2 firing ranges I get to hear the Vulcan cannon getting fired fairly often but yesterday there was a diffrent sound, much deeper and heavier than the Vulcan and the aircraft sounded diffrent than the F16 but they were out of view from my location so never seen what was doing the firing, if it was the GAU8 then it sounds really meaty and powerful and with a lot more low frequency than the youtube clips, the rate of fire was about the same. This past week or so there have been a load of "new sounds", 155 howitzers have been using the range and they make the 120mm of the leopards here sound like pop guns :) Sons of Dogs, Come Eat Flesh Clan Cameron
sobek Posted October 26, 2010 Posted October 26, 2010 if it was the GAU8 then it sounds really meaty and powerful and with a lot more low frequency than the youtube clips, the rate of fire was about the same. The further you are away, the more low pass filtered it sounds. Air is a non-linear transfer medium for sound. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
FlakBait Posted October 26, 2010 Posted October 26, 2010 From in the cockpit, I really enjoy the sound. From external views, it lacks the supersonic cracks like Yo-Yo mentioned, and that's a little disappointing. All in all, I like it. It feels good to fire that thing. Could it be better? Yes. I posted a vid on Youtube and so many commenters there came back and said the sounds were awful. However that's Youtube, an as you know on Youtube, if you say the sky looks blue, someone will comment that no, it actually looks red... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU6CdMOQlSQ&feature=related
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