Well, we supposedly hire Mexicans to do all sorts of jobs Americans won’t do, why not hire a whole bunch of them to do this one? I will personally drive up to Home Depot and pick up the first cadre of Border Control operatives. And pay for their lunches. We can probably even pay them with cash, newly printed, from the Geithner Treasury Department.

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Its more that an airplane can glide to the ground if it looses engine power and helicopters tend to drop faster. Auto-Gyrating the rotor can help bring it into the realm of survivable, but its no guarantee

Autorotation works if the engine goes out but you still have control. If the key hydraulic parts or mechanical linkages are hit, you don’t have that control. You have a helicopter crashing to the ground.

Look up “Saboted Light Armor Piercing 12.7×99mm”. Even standard 850 grain semi-armor piercing is defined as dangerous to soft-skinned vehicles (defined as anything with less than 20mm armor) out to 1500 meters. SLAP rounds can punch through both sides of most MICVs out to 1000.

And few light aircraft of the type used by police carry any armor at all.

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The backstory to the rebuilt 1919s is pretty cool. We sold a bunch to Israel when we upgraded to the M60 machine gun. Israel then upgraded, dimilitarized the 1919a4, and importers bought the parts kits. Until recently, the kits were < $400. You built a receiver, which was really just a flat piece of steel – the right side plate. Then you assembled your own, personally built, 30 caliber belt fed weapon. http://www.1919a4.com explains it.

Roger. That picture you linked is an M2. I know them. I “owned” a number of them as my Navy unit’s weapons and ATFP officer in the Middle East. I was going by the pictures in the Daily Mail article that Bob Owens linked to:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1170064/Whats-nice-girl-like-doing-arsenal-like-Police-seize-20-year-old-guarding-vast-weapons-cache–including-anti-aircraft-gun.html

The wide shot of the table shows a 1919 and some kind of .50 cal rifle. I hadn’t seen the M2 pic before.

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