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  • There were no hot zones for the Osprey to take them into, no need for a forward-firing gun, no casualties for VMM-263 to evacuate, other than a Marine whose appendix ruptured on Christmas Eve.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • There were no hot zones for the Osprey to take them into, no need for a forward-firing gun, no casualties for VMM-263 to evacuate, other than a Marine whose appendix ruptured on Christmas Eve.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • There were no hot zones for the Osprey to take them into, no need for a forward-firing gun, no casualties for VMM-263 to evacuate, other than a Marine whose appendix ruptured on Christmas Eve.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • MCINTYRE: One of "TIME" magazine's criticisms, the lack of a forward-firing gun has been validated by the fact that now after sinking $100 billion into the Osprey, the Pentagon is about to pony up millions more to retrofit it with a belly-mounted gatling gun on a gimble.

    CNN Transcript May 27, 2008 2008

  • MCINTYRE: One of "TIME" magazine's criticisms, the lack of a forward-firing gun has been validated by the fact that now after sinking $100 billion into the Osprey, the Pentagon is about to pony up millions more to retrofit it with a belly-mounted gatling gun on a gimble.

    CNN Transcript May 26, 2008 2008

  • In addition to the “planets,” Designer Markus Duevel has incorporated a high efficiency tweeter that combines with the sphere to create a sonic image that is “massively larger than any forward-firing tweeter.”

    Big sound, little speakers: Nano technology moves to music 2007

  • Finding it too difficult to fly and shoot at the same time, Garros mounted a forward-firing machine gun to his plane and fitted metal deflector plates to the propeller to protect it from the bullets.

    April 18, 1915: Aerial Warfare Is About to Make a Quantum Leap 2007

  • Finding it too difficult to fly and shoot at the same time, Garros mounted a forward-firing machine gun to his plane and fitted metal deflector plates to the propeller to protect it from the bullets.

    April 18, 1915: Aerial Warfare Is About to Make a Quantum Leap 2007

  • So the forward-firing rockets were disabled for the ascent engine.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • The improved safety was counteracted by the extra strain on the airship crews and the British introduction in mid-1916 of forward-firing fighters.

    A movie so big, it had to be filmed in color! Fr Timothy Matkin 2005

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