It always bad news for the bad guys then Spectre shows up
Posted on 09/04/2014 8:32:37 AM PDT by GonzoII
“C+” J School grads....
Armament configurations of current AC-130s, although the H model has been officially retired, it is still flying missions and the J model will be online in the coming years:
AC-130H Spectre
1× 40 mm (1.58 in) L/60 Bofors cannon
1× 105 mm (4.13 in) M102 howitzer
AC-130U Spooky II
1× General Dynamics 25 mm (0.984 in) GAU-12/U Equalizer 5-barreled Gatling cannon
1× 40 mm (1.58 in) L/60 Bofors cannon
1× 105 mm (4.13 in) M102 howitzer
AC-130W Stinger II & AC-130J
1x 30 mm ATK GAU-23/A autocannon
‘Gunslinger’ weapons system with launch tube for AGM-176 Griffin missiles and/or GBU-44/B Viper Strike munitions (10 round magazines)
Wing mounted, AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs) and/or GBU-53/B SDB II
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-u-s-air-forces-new-ac-130-gunships-are-really-bomb-1584518199
6/01/14
US planes also attacked high buildings in the city that have been used ...as observation posts.
Take’em out!
You know darn well it is burning the Obamatollah up to be forced into doing this by public opinion and scared democrats who are up for election.
Every bullet, shell and bomb expended overseas is that much less his “Civilian National Security Force” will have available when he turns them loose on Americans.
Is it 2003 again?
ME-109 if I remember right had a 20 or 30 mm cannon. The barrel went through the propeller hub.
It always bad news for the bad guys then Spectre shows up
Same mission, same concept, different planes.
“Heaven” is going to need more virgins.
You can is you have an AC-130 Spectre with a 105mm Howitzer inside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130#Armament
I want one of those.
I worked for it. I paid for it. I deserve it...
Where’s MY AC-130...?
No, he’ll say ‘that’s the wrong ones, I said to bomb ISIL NOT ISIS!’
Spooky was a DC3! Amazing aircraft that DC3, probably the best designed airframe of the 1930s. DC3s are (IIRC) still flying commercially in Alaska. almost 80 years after first flight.
Well... I say that the reporter just got lucky on this one, then.
Probably not, I doubt AC130s are flying over Mosul, ISIS has advanced ground to air, to risky to put one up there.
DC3 is in military parlance a C-47. AC-47 or AC47 means “attack.”
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