ICYMI: The Air Force's Frozen Chicken Gun
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When the United States Air Force tests a new aircraft it needs to make sure it won't crash should a stray bird slam into the plane's side. Thankfully, the military has an artillery piece with a 60-foot barrel that hurls chicken more than 400 miles an hour. The chicken gun allows the military to make sure no stray bird will foul up its expensive jets while they're mid-flight. If you think the chicken gun is weird, it’s only the tip of a strange and fascinating iceberg.
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| 0:16.0 | It is Thanksgiving week, so I am running a rerun. |
| 0:20.0 | This is a blast from the past. It's from the old Reuters days. I think this was the first |
| 0:26.1 | episode that I actually tackled Solo. It's got a nice, you know, foul theme to go with Thanksgiving. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm going to talk to Mary Roach about some of the weirdest inventions of the US military, |
| 0:36.0 | including a gun that fired frozen turkeys and frozen chickens. |
| 0:41.0 | If you want to know why such thing was invented, well you'll just have to listen to the episode. |
| 0:45.0 | We will be back next week. We're going to be talking with Shadi Hamid about America's relationship with Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:51.0 | And after that we will have a look at the life of war correspondent |
| 0:54.9 | Marie Colvin. Thank you so much and enjoy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:58.4 | The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the participants not of Reuters news. |
| 1:05.0 | Are there currently any people making use of military maggots, |
| 1:08.0 | medicinal military maggots? |
| 1:10.0 | I just wanted to say that. |
| 1:11.0 | That was all that question was about. |
| 1:13.0 | What would soldiers need kitty litter for? |
| 1:24.0 | And why does the military consider flies to be a mortal threat? |
| 1:28.0 | And what, for heaven's sake, is a chicken gun? |
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