Posted on 01/04/2006 7:45:41 AM PST by pabianice
This is remarkable film footage. This is a night vision movie from Iraq, showing live action against Iraqi insurgents. The pictures were taken from an AC-130 Specter gunship two and a half miles from the target. The guys in the picture are setting up a roadside bomb and planning to ambush an American convoy which followed a short while after the pictures were taken. They were setting up the ambush and were pacing off the distance from the bomb to where the convoy was to pass by.
Turn your sound up. The level of effort these Specter crews put forth to control the enemy's antics is commendable, and their marksmanship with those electronically controlled 40mm cannons is astounding.
I can't pull this up at work, but if it's the one with the three or four terrorists in the farmer's field with a tractor and a couple of trucks, it's Apache video from a while back. There is, however, a video floating around out there from several years ago, in Afghanistan I believe, of an AC-130 tearing the hell out of a suspected terrorist safe house.
And yes, a salvo of depleted-uranium 30mm chaingun rounds from an Apache would ruin somebody's day, rather effectively. I don't know how far the helicopter was from the targets--probably pretty far if the terrorists couldn't hear it--but the accuracy of those bursts of fire is amazing.
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I find those videos to be very disturbing. Having been on the receiving end of ordnance it hits a button with me. Your life can be over in a instant.
Having said all that, go get em boys!
I didn't realize that AC-130 Specter's can hover.
My guess is that they're 'stashing' a weapon to either prevent it being discovered at a roadblock, or for someone else's later retrieval and use. Emplacing a 'mechanical ambush' or IED takes some time and we'd be more likely to see a man or two crouched down in one spot for a period of time, doing some delicate work- if that were the case. And- it's way too far off of the road to be an IED.
You are right, couple of years old and an Apache, but it is still a great piece of footage.
I think you are right about that.....can't be fixed wing and I saw this about a year ago. C130 couldn't hang around that long...sorry I can't provide details about surveillance, etc.
Cameras mounted on gimbals with stabilization from gyros. Hollywood and Police have been doing it for years.......
I agree. The 130 can't hover and wouldn't be that low to begin with. It would be circling about a mile overhead.
mbynack USAF (Retired)
They've been turbanated! Allahu fubar!
No, but hit that howitzer and it flys sideways :)
At the beginning of the clip, the driver of the small pickup pulls an RPG out of the cab and runs it into the field, where he hides it in the furrows until the guy on the tractor can pick it up.
Smoke those bitches.
yeah, but the scenery changes when you circle...
yeah, but the scenery changes when you circle...
I make that to be 144 virgins.Can anyone confirm this?
Sniff, I love a happy ending.
No such animal. The proposed Bravo upgrade was cancelled in 92.
Not to mention a Spectre's 'small' guns do not give a staccato rat-tat-tat, they are more of a continuous BuuuuuurrrrrrP.
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