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Spectre Gets A Brain Upgrade
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| 11/09/2009
| The Strategy Page
Posted on 11/09/2009 6:07:11 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The U.S. Air Force is modifying the fire control software on its AC-130H gunships so the 105mm howitzer and 40mm autocannon can track and shoot at different targets at the same time. Currently, the two weapons can both be aimed at only one target at a time. The AC-130s are also being tested using missiles, like Hellfire. U.S. Air Force operates 25 of these gunships (eight AC-130H "Spectre", and 17 AC-130U "Spooky"). The AC-130U has an additional 25mm autocannon, and always had the capability to track more than one target at a time. Because of their vulnerability to ground fire, the AC-130s only operate at night. The last time an AC-130 was lost was at Khafji, Saudi Arabia, during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The aircraft was leaving the combat zone at sunrise, and was visible to Iraqi gunners in the area.
In the works are 17 new AC-130 gunships, using the new C-130J aircraft. The air force operates the AC-130s as part of SOCOM (Special Operations Command.)
(Excerpt) Read more at strategypage.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: ac130; airweapons; avionics; gunships; socom; software; usaf; usairforce; usmilitary
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To: sonofstrangelove
I am glad I am on the “good side” of this bad boy. It is just getting meaner and meaner.....
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:12:49 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Love and mental illness are similar. At first, all seems normal.)
To: sonofstrangelove
Dang — I thought you meant ARLEN Spectre and I was going to ask for one for all of Congress!
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:12:54 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: sonofstrangelove
Me too, At first it looked as if the title was saying that Arlen Specter was getting a brain upgrade. LOL.
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:14:48 PM PST
by
TheConservativeParty
(TAGLINE VANITY: Nov. 9th, 2009,,,celebrating one year as a Freeper today.)
To: llevrok
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:16:49 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Love and mental illness are similar. At first, all seems normal.)
To: TheConservativeParty
Me too, At first it looked as if the title was saying that Arlen Specter was getting a brain upgrade. LOL.Nope, Arlen had his upgrade about twenty years ago. Before that he was reeeeaaaaallllly stoopid. Now he's just plain stoopid.
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:19:27 PM PST
by
eeriegeno
(<p>)
To: freedumb2003
That’s what I thought too!
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:22:22 PM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: llevrok
Oh, THAT Spectre! I thought they meant this Specter.
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:22:56 PM PST
by
BufordP
("I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market ..." --George "Hoover" Bush)
To: clee1
>>That’s what I thought too!<<
Hope springs eternal. That is what makes us Conservatives...
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:24:00 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: sonofstrangelove
puff, spectre, spooky, they're all bad@ss machines.
To: llevrok
The bad guys also know that when its got them in its sights...”Don't run, you'll just die tired.”
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:24:10 PM PST
by
JPG
(Sarah Palln Rocks.)
To: BufordP
A trend is emerging... LOL
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:24:32 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: JPG
>>Don’t run, you’ll just die tired.”<<
My favorite WarPorn quote!
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:25:32 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
11/09/2009 6:31:05 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: BufordP
Wow. All I could think about was the single brain cell theory.
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posted on
11/09/2009 7:19:21 PM PST
by
kempster
To: sonofstrangelove
You mean Arlen finally got a brain?
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posted on
11/09/2009 8:04:06 PM PST
by
Babalu
("Tracer rounds work both ways ...")
To: freedumb2003
Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who thought this!
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posted on
11/09/2009 10:08:12 PM PST
by
packrat35
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.- M Thatcher)
To: sonofstrangelove
Did they give Spector an enema?
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posted on
11/09/2009 10:11:10 PM PST
by
dalereed
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
11/09/2009 11:08:37 PM PST
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
To: anymouse
I prefer the Donald Pleasance of Blofeld
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posted on
11/09/2009 11:52:59 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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