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Postby Romulus111VADT » Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:11 pm

My step son shipped out for another deployment at the end of August. He sent me some pictures his qualifying with his ships 25mm automatic cannon. He was on the bridge of his ship sighting the target through a camera. He took three shots to kill the target. He had the best first time qualifying on the ship.

The ship was being attacked by "Killer Tomato's!"

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Target sighted..... ;)
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Wiggled it... ;)
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Not being an expert on the Naval 25mm Auto....I'm assuming the splashing is the round skipping on the water.... :-/

Rats, winged him..... >:(
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Omag 2.0 » Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:22 pm

Evil looking tomatoes!  ;D

Nice shots, he must be pleased with those results. What's next? Canon-battery? Will whipe out an entire tomatoe-plantation in one round!  :)
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Romulus111VADT » Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:17 pm

[quote]Evil looking tomatoes!
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Romulus111VADT » Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:42 pm

To give you a general idea of the size of a 25mm compared with rounds you are more familar with.

Who can tell me the none NATO name people know the 12.7mm by?

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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Ravang » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:16 pm

Is it the .50 caliber? :-?
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Romulus111VADT » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:51 pm

Is it the .50 caliber? :-?


Yep, 12.7x99mm NATO is a .50 BMG...very good!
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Ravang » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:06 pm

Is it the .50 caliber? :-?


Yep, 12.7x99mm NATO is a .50 BMG...very good!

I seen one of these rounds the other day, so I thought it looked the same... :)
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby BigTruck » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:23 pm

Terrific pictures!!!

The splashing is actually the series of rounds fired, I'm not sure what the rate of fire is for the 25mm but it looks to me like he was trying to "walk" the round to the target, a common practice we use with the 50 cal.  

When I was on the USS Pele Leu they did a demo where the ship was under attack by anti ship missles, they fired the 25mm at the imaginary enemy and then used the 20mm (i think, soething like that, it's an automated gun though, fired with a joystick) to shoot down the missle.  That gun sounded like a buzz saw!!!

When the round skipped on the water one skip was over hundred meters long  :o  Lucky guy getting to shoot the gun, all I could do was observe.
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Romulus111VADT » Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:19 pm

[quote]Terrific pictures!!!

The splashing is actually the series of rounds fired, I'm not sure what the rate of fire is for the 25mm but it looks to me like he was trying to "walk" the round to the target, a common practice we use with the 50 cal.
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby a1 » Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:22 pm

Some cool stuff. ;)
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Brando14100 » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:13 pm

That's cool, but I couldn't help but notice this:

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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby BigTruck » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:39 pm

[quote][quote]Terrific pictures!!!

The splashing is actually the series of rounds fired, I'm not sure what the rate of fire is for the 25mm but it looks to me like he was trying to "walk" the round to the target, a common practice we use with the 50 cal.
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby Romulus111VADT » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:40 am

That's cool, but I couldn't help but notice this:

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I have no idea what it is? I just found the picture Googling "Killer Tomato's" and thought it was funny.


[quote][quote][quote]Terrific pictures!!!

The splashing is actually the series of rounds fired, I'm not sure what the rate of fire is for the 25mm but it looks to me like he was trying to "walk" the round to the target, a common practice we use with the 50 cal.
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby ozzy72 » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:15 pm

Weird :o ;D
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Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatos

Postby BFMF » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:27 am

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Red splat?
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