#AerialGunner

The world is hungry for visual storytelling, and TFB’s Photo Of The Day does its best to keep the feed alive and well. Here we have U.S. Marines with the Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). They were engaging floating targets during an aerial snipers exercise in the Philippine Sea earlier in 2022. The exercise focuses on proficiency in engaging targets from an aircraft.

I guess the opposite of sniping is machine gunning from an unsteady platform? Well, here we are on board an MH-60S Knighthawk behind a fully-loaded GAU-21 and I assume that anyone on the dangerous side of it dare to call it inaccurate.

This World War II aerial gunner training film distilled the mathematics of a deflection shot into an informative and entertaining cartoon. While the film was concise by nature, this piece endeavours to provide some background information for the modern audience.