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Boeing progresses forward with the development of its airborne laser program Boeing is working on a devastating new weapon which could strike fear into the eyes of all American enemies. The company is progressing at a rapid pace on its 12,000-pound airborne laser. The Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) was installed into a C-130H gunship and Boeing is on track to begin in-flight tests of the weapon next year. Ground targets will be neutralized via the ATL which is incorporated into a rotating turret on the C-130H's belly. The ATL is seen as a precise, high-power weapon that will result in...

Russia is set to unroll its new high-altitude light helicopter gunships and has offered its co-development to India as a package deal, which could also forsee cooperation in building 10-tonne-class choppers. The offer comes as the country is also ready to unveil its new Kamaov-60 and next generation 10-tonne-class MI helicopters, which can be used as heavy lift troop carriers. "We know Indian Air Force's urgent requirements for 10-ton-class helicopters and we have conveyed our readiness for joint development through establishment of joint holding company," said Givi Dzhandzhgava, Director General of the Ramenskoi Design company. "The Kamaov group by end...

Strapped to Apaches and dodging fire, how troops recovered fallen comrade · Marine died during failed attack on Taliban fort· Four soldiers clung to gunships in rescue effort Declan Walsh in Islamabad and Richard Norton-Taylor Wednesday January 17, 2007 It was an extraordinary end to a tragic operation. When Lance Corporal Matthew Ford was shot during an assault on a Taliban fortress last Monday, his comrades mounted a dramatic rescue mission that saw soldiers being strapped to the wings of helicopter gunships as they crossed a river under heavy enemy fire. The remarkable mission, dubbed "Flight of the Phoenix" by...

Russia Commits to Multi-Year Buy of 67 Mi-28 Attack Helicopters Posted 20-Jul-2006 05:52 The Mi-28A "Havoc" first appeared at the Paris Air Show in 1989, but was never produced in numbers due competition from the Ka-50 "Black Shark" and Russia's financial situation in the aftermath of communism. An improved Mi-28N (see also Rostvertol profile) with full day/night capabilities was introduced as a prototype in 1996, but the Mi-28N would wait until 2004 for the first flight by an improved second prototype, and only began flight testing with the Russian Air Force in June 2005. Defense-Aerospace relays a July 18 Rostvertol...

I saw a clip on CNN yesterday 6/22/06 while at the Doctors office showing a helicopter gun ship attacking a limo. The volume was down on the TV but I could make out that this was an attack by American forces and I think it said it was last Friday. Has anyone else seen this? If so, is there a place on the net where I can watch the entire clip? Thank you!

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...

AH-64 Apache and Predator drone gun camera footage in Tall Afar, Iraq(New video of them destroying insurgents)

PAKISTANI gunship helicopters destroyed a suspected militant compound in a restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing a number of foreign insurgents, a military source said. The raid, conducted overnight on the basis of "confirmed intelligence", targeted a hideout in Nagar, six kilometres south of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, the source said on condition of anonymity. Pakistani forces have carried out a series of operations against suspected militants in lawless North Waziristan over the past month and a half. The military said around 250 rebels and five soldiers have been killed. "A sting operation with the help of...

(CNN) -- Pakistani helicopter gunships converged Wednesday night on a suspected terrorist compound near the Afghan border, killing "a number" of militants, including some foreigners, according to a military statement read on Pakistani television.

WHAT A PICTURE - AT OVER TWO MILES AWAY!!Here is what  technology can do in a war zone. The pictures were taken from an  AC130 Specter gunship two and a half miles away.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 for the ambush and were pacing off the distance from the bomb to where the convoy was to pass by.Turn your sound up. http://lvlranch.com/images/iraqiinsurgents-takeout.wmv

This video is totally awesome, it's a ac-130 gunship on a night operation over a mosque loaded with terrorists. It gives you are real birdseye view of what the guys in the ac-130 see and do. Can anyone tell me why some of the cars hit had a hugh secondary explosion? Is it because a car has a full load of gas or would it be explosives. Click me to see Movie

This will shock you, even the tough guys!! Stand by for a very serious digi-video. You have been warned!!!

Fallujah, Iraq - A U.S. AC-130 gunship raked Iraqi insurgents Friday night after hundreds of women and children fled the besieged city Fallujah during a U.S.-declared pause in the marine offensive. On the anniversary of the fall of captive Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's regime, Baghdad and parts of central Iraq were chaotic. At a square in the capital where Saddam's statue was toppled a year ago, soldiers took down a new icon: pictures of the radical Shiite Muslim cleric whose followers have risen up against coalition forces in the south. Gunmen running rampant on Baghdad's western edge attacked a fuel...

Apparently this is a clip of a longer video of an Apache gunship engaging Iraqis.Warning: This video is graphic!!! http://www.lunitixx.com/sharefoo/224Helicopter_Kills.mpegI forget how to post a link, so if someone can do the honors, I would appreciate it.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Gunmen killed a U.S. civilian contractor and injured another north of Baghdad, while an Apache helicopter killed seven people suspected of preparing a rocket attack on a U.S. base near Tikrit, the military said Friday. Unrelenting violence in Iraq has pushed Washington to discuss ways of speeding up the transfer of power to an Iraqi-led government. A member of Iraq's Governing Council said Friday that the group will study Washington's proposals for a speedier transfer of power but won't necessarily agree with the details. "For our part, we have our own ideas," said Mahmoud Othman, a...

The US Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) is conducting several efforts that could improve the performance and increase the lethality of the AC-130 gunships operated by US Air Force Special Operations Command. The work could also provide these and other C-130 Hercules models with greatly expanded capabilities. The NSWCDD, which had earlier worked on integrating gun armament into the baseline AC-130 models, has conducted the Killer Hercules Demonstration Program - generally referred to as 'Killer Herc' - at the request of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. This involved four major...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. helicopter gunships have killed four guerrillas in southern Afghanistan and coalition troops forced another group to flee into Pakistan after attacking a U.S. base, a U.S. spokesman says. The guerrillas were killed by two AH-64 Apache gunships after a group of 15 opened fire on a coalition special forces patrol from a ridgeline north of the town of Kandahar on Thursday, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Lefforge told a news briefing on Friday. "The remaining enemy fighters retreated to nearby caves," he said. In another incident in the southern part of Kandahar province close to the border...

Hamas vows revenge after senior activist assassinated by Israel in Gaza Strip An Israeli helicopter gunship fired two missiles at a car in Gaza City on Thursday, killing at least one person, Palestinian police sources and witnesses said. Two of the missiles struck the car and a third landed nearby in the street, witnesses said. Israel Radio reported that the strike killed a senior official in Hamas. The man killed in the strike was later identified as Iyad El-Bek, 27. Palestinian police at the scene said the strike was an "assassination." "A response is coming. The crime will not pass...

Breaking News ISRAELI GUNSHIPS KILL TWO TEENAGERS Israeli helicopter gunships have fired three missiles into a Palestinian orchard in the Gaza Strip and killed two teenagers. Witnesses said two helicopters struck the orchard located near the road between the Khan Younis and Rafah refugee camps just after dark. A Palestinian man was also wounded. A senior Israeli security source confirmed the air strike, saying: "I can confirm we hit three wanted men." But Palestinian medical officials said the dead were Mohammed Kawara, 14, and Abdullah a-Najar, 19. They claimed that neither they nor the wounded man were known to be...

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