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gun camera

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noun

  1. an aircraft-mounted motion-picture camera recording the firing of all weapons on the gun-target line of the pilot.


Etymology

Origin of gun camera

First recorded in 1920–25

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My analyses of other task force cases, involving gun camera footage of indistinct shapes, have also been supported by Pentagon sources cited by the New York Times.

From Scientific American Feb. 16, 2023

That video showed Navy pilots intercepting a strange object off the coast of San Diego, which was filmed from their F-18's gun camera.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2019

The first video of the unidentified object was taken on Nov. 14, 2004, and shot by the F-18's gun camera.

From Fox News Sep. 17, 2019

A U.S. military intelligence analyst working in Baghdad, now called Chelsea Manning, had leaked the gun camera tape and more than 700,000 other classified documents to WikiLeaks.

From Reuters Apr. 18, 2018

As soon as the pilots were on the ground, the magazine of film from the gun camera was rushed to the photo lab and developed.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.

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