Holbeach AWR is a place where you can bring your aircraft to blow up and shoot stuff! And on this fine evening we have a Chinook from RAF Odiham hitting the range! Lets 'skim that tower' and shoot the hell out of the range.
This was featured in our live stream on the 30th March 2023 and callsign 'VORTEX561' came for a day and night shoot and what we really wanted to see is Tracer Ammo.
Tracer ammunition (AMO) (Tracers) are bullets or cannon-caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. When fired, the pyrotechnic composition is ignited by the burning powder and burns very brightly, making the projectile trajectory visible to the naked eye during daylight, and very bright during nighttime firing. This allows the shooter to visually trace the flight path of the projectile and thus make necessary ballistic corrections, without having to confirm projectile impacts and without even using the sights of the weapon. Tracer fire can also be used as a marking tool to signal other shooters to concentrate their fire on a particular target during battle.
This Chinook had armourers on board and may have had a combined squadron of 7 and 18 squadrons who are based at RAF Odiham. It is packing two 7.62mm M134 Minguns and one 7.62mm M60D machine gun, which we get a little excited about it because of that punchy sound it makes.
RAF Holbeach is Ministry of Defence academic air weapons range (AWR) situated between Boston and King's Lynn in the civil parish of Gedney on The Wash, in Lincolnshire. Its location is stunningly and contrastingly tranquil, until of course, a squawk of 7002 from an aircraft entering the range.
It was originally associated with RAF Sutton Bridge, but in the 1950s was named Royal Air Force Holbeach before adopting its current name in the mid 2000s when control was passed to the Defence Training Estate.
"Shown on aeronautical charts as Danger area EGD 307, it is also known as the Wash Weapons airspace. The range covers an area from Gedney Drove End to Dawsmere. It has a frontage of around 7km of marshland, and when the current range boundaries are taken into account, the range covers an area of some 42 square kilometres. The accommodation consists of a headquarters site, a control tower, and four bomb scoring towers or 'quadrants'. The site is open for use Monday to Thursday from 0900 - 1700hrs daily, with Friday being open from 0900 – 1200hrs. Opening times vary between 1st September and 30th April when the range is open for night flying on Tuesday and Thursdays, until 2200hrs local time.
The whole of the site can be observed by the public from the road which is a right of way. It should not need to be stated that to ignore warning signs and to enter the area while the range is open, is foolhardy in the least and in certain cases almost certainly deadly. If anything is amiss reporting it to the tower is safer and almost certainly will prompt a fast and effective response from properly qualified personnel, if required.
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