dmrowe
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I am going to try to cut and paste this email I received from one of my friends at the DOD. Great footage of an AC130 in action in Afghanistan. I hope this works because this is some awesome footage. Pity the poor bastards on the ground, they are running but they can't hide.
Click on the area where it says "click here" if you can't see the imbedded image.
Gunship in Action
This is a topic of current interest, as I speak, Fox news is discussing a strike in Somalia . The C-130 gunship has evolved since I experienced their protection during several firefights. The early ones were actually DC-3's that mounted "Vulcans", multi-barrel, electrically-driven machine guns. When you were on the ground below them, it was real "Buck Rodgers"-like. The tracers, with 7 barrels going, gave the appearance of lasers from the sky. They usually worked in cooperation with a lightship which dropped flares from extreme altitudes. Again, on the ground, the light was brighter that the sun and tended to highlight targets.
The attached clip is extraordinary to an old soldier. The C-130 is armed with a gaggle of guns: 25mm gatlings, 40mm canons (the old anti-aircraft "pom-pom" projectile), and rapid fire 105mm cannons. The fire direction is state-of-the-art, as you will see when you open the clip. It is easy to see the "big booms, look carefully for the smaller caliber hits.
The white objects are the infrared images of terrorists, the controller gets a verbal from the weapons folks to acknowledge which bldg is the mosque and that it is not to be targeted. They are " released" on the vehicle and other targets. It is a different game than us older folks
knew. "Shock and Awe", illustrated!
As with all of these clips, you can fill your screen with the image by double-clicking on the small screen-resolution sometimes is a problem.
Check out this wave file of the AC 130 in action!
http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000560.html
Click on the area where it says "click here" if you can't see the imbedded image.
Gunship in Action
This is a topic of current interest, as I speak, Fox news is discussing a strike in Somalia . The C-130 gunship has evolved since I experienced their protection during several firefights. The early ones were actually DC-3's that mounted "Vulcans", multi-barrel, electrically-driven machine guns. When you were on the ground below them, it was real "Buck Rodgers"-like. The tracers, with 7 barrels going, gave the appearance of lasers from the sky. They usually worked in cooperation with a lightship which dropped flares from extreme altitudes. Again, on the ground, the light was brighter that the sun and tended to highlight targets.
The attached clip is extraordinary to an old soldier. The C-130 is armed with a gaggle of guns: 25mm gatlings, 40mm canons (the old anti-aircraft "pom-pom" projectile), and rapid fire 105mm cannons. The fire direction is state-of-the-art, as you will see when you open the clip. It is easy to see the "big booms, look carefully for the smaller caliber hits.
The white objects are the infrared images of terrorists, the controller gets a verbal from the weapons folks to acknowledge which bldg is the mosque and that it is not to be targeted. They are " released" on the vehicle and other targets. It is a different game than us older folks
knew. "Shock and Awe", illustrated!
As with all of these clips, you can fill your screen with the image by double-clicking on the small screen-resolution sometimes is a problem.
Check out this wave file of the AC 130 in action!
http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000560.html
