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This war saw the only confirmed air-to-air helicopter battles in history with the Iraqi Mi-24s flying and scoring victories against Iranian AH-1J SeaCobras (supplied by the United States before the Iranian revolution) on many separate occasions.[9]

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Simon wrote:

1. Is there a specific angle and speed that a bullet could be shot at that it would do a full rotation around the Earth?

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Simon wrote:

Yo guys
I wasn't sure if this was D&ST discussion, I would like some serious replies so I'll post it here

1. Is there a specific angle and speed that a bullet could be shot at that it would do a full rotation around the Earth?

2. How is currency valued? Just why is £1 worth $2. What's stopping a new country from making a currency and saying, 1 blahmark = £500

3. Has there ever been a helicopter V helicopter dogfight in real life? If yes what type and when...

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3. US Comanche and Russian HOKUM are developped as air-superiority fighters which suggests their is use for them.*



*= Not sure on the Comanche though.

Simon wrote:

Yo guys
I wasn't sure if this was D&ST discussion, I would like some serious replies so I'll post it here

1. Is there a specific angle and speed that a bullet could be shot at that it would do a full rotation around the Earth?

yes. exactly parallel to the surface at your location, but the velocity would have to be hundreds of times the speed of sound to overcome gravity (and air resistance, which has been assumed to be zero in most physics calculations)

2. How is currency valued? Just why is £1 worth $2. What's stopping a new country from making a currency and saying, 1 blahmark = £500

They can say 1 whatever = $100,000, but that means that they would have to keep an extremely small amount of currency in circulation, or inflation would rapidly level out the value of the currency to a more practical level (one US dollar is worth thoudands of Zimbabwean Dollars right now)

3. Has there ever been a helicopter V helicopter dogfight in real life? If yes what type and when...

no, most nations attack helicopters are designed to attack ground targets, and only in a situation where one side has near complete air superiority.  Modern attack helicopters have the capbility to engage other aircraft, but these craft are only operated by a few nations, who are currently on speaking terms.
Just some questions a certain member wanted me to post
Any answers, interesting points etc on these questions?

Simon wrote:

Yo guys
I wasn't sure if this was D&ST discussion, I would like some serious replies so I'll post it here

1. Is there a specific angle and speed that a bullet could be shot at that it would do a full rotation around the Earth?

2. How is currency valued? Just why is £1 worth $2. What's stopping a new country from making a currency and saying, 1 blahmark = £500

3. Has there ever been a helicopter V helicopter dogfight in real life? If yes what type and when...

Just some questions a certain member wanted me to post
Any answers, interesting points etc on these questions?

Simon wrote:

Yo guys
I wasn't sure if this was D&ST discussion, I would like some serious replies so I'll post it here

1. Is there a specific angle and speed that a bullet could be shot at that it would do a full rotation around the Earth?

A Canadian-born astro-physicist, Bull had earlier research contracts with with the United States Army, the Canadian Department of Defense and McGill University. While working on the Canadian Velvet Glove missile project, he realized that scientific instruments could also be fired from a gun and survive if put in a proper casing. In 1962 Bull obtained US military support for the joint U.S./Canadian High Altitude Research Program [HARP]. Initially working from a facility on the island of Barbados, a small 5-inch gun was used to fire projectiles to an altitude of over 70 km, and a 7-inch guns fired projectiles to nearly 100 km. Subsequently, in Arizona a larger HARP gun was fabricated by welding together a pair of 16-inch battleship guns, forming a barrel some 30 meters long. The gun was used to fire light-weight sub-caliber discarding-sabot projectiles called Martletts. On 19 November 1966 the gun fired a 185-lb Martlet to an altitude of 180 km. The 16 inch HARP gun was intended to launch a small three stage rocket carrying a 10 kg payload into space. However, the Canadian and US governments terminated HARP funding in 1967.