US C130 Gunship over Afghanistan

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - US C130 Gunship over Afghanistan

Posted: 10/15/2001 11:24:51 PM EDT

US based FoxNews reported a few hrs ago that a C130 gunship was 'doing its thing' over a troop concentration in Afghanistan. They are calling it Spl Ops.

Excellent! Light up those skys with those mini guns and 105mm How!

Keep 'em firing.
1feral1
Sydney

Posted: 10/15/2001 11:28:58 PM EDT

[#1]

Yeah,...I heard the guy make a reference to "this new C 130 gunship we have" lol.....um,...do you mean the Spectre?

definitely could do some damage

Posted: 10/16/2001 12:05:39 AM EDT

[#2]

AC-130 facts
[url]http://www.theaviationzone.com/facts/ac130.htm[/url]

The Spectre Association
[url]http://www.spectre-association.org/[/url]

Sam's AC-130 page
[url]http://hometown.aol.com/SamC130/ac130.html[/url]

C-130 Hercules Headquarters AC-130 photo page
[url]http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/gunship.htm[/url]

looking at the 105mm Howitzer and the 40mm Bofors cannon. GAU 25mm guns are mounted forward.
Death from the sky!
[img]http://members.tripod.com/~a26invader/130aft4.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/images/ac130_04.jpg[/img]

Posted: 10/16/2001 12:32:01 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Yeah,...I heard the guy make a reference to "this new C 130 gunship we have" lol.....um,...do you mean the Spectre?

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Oh, you mean that "new" C-130 gunship that flew missions over SE Asia back in the '60s? What a dork! Was this the same guy who said SWAT teams were wearing "full metal jackets?" LOL!

Spectres and Spooky IIs [b]OWN[/b] the night!

Posted: 10/16/2001 6:49:37 AM EDT

[#4]

We used AC-47's in Veitnam for sure, I don't know if the AC-130 was used or not. At any rate I bet the guys on the ground are having a [b]real[/b] good time with that circling them!

Posted: 10/16/2001 9:57:41 AM EDT

[#5]

Oh yeah. The AC-47 came out just before I was in the AF (66-78). I had the pleasure of watching a few of them and the AC-119 work over an area. Very impressive, especially when you realize that only one in ten (IIRC) of that stream is a tracer. There's an invisible 9 in between.

I saw a couple AC-130 on the ground at TonSohnNhut (Saigon) when they just had miniguns and a single 40mm gun. When they first got a 105, it was pointed out the back.

They've come a long way since! Fighters & bombers come & go over a battlefield, but these guys hang in the sky for 10 - 12 hours, shooting up anything that dares stick its head up. Very serious machinery.

Posted: 10/16/2001 10:47:06 AM EDT

[#6]

Spooky getting some!!!

(Puff is the original c-47 version)

Posted: 10/16/2001 10:57:12 AM EDT

[#7]

Good old CNN manages to screw up again:
"And we did that with the AC-130 gunship armed with three guns, a 40 mm mortar, 105 mm howitzer and another 40 mm gun"

What the heck is a 40 mm mortar?? They left out the best weapon: GATLING!
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/16/ret.shepperd.am/

Anyone knows where the AC130 were based?

Regards

ACK

Posted: 10/16/2001 11:07:02 AM EDT

[#8]

They're based out of Hurlbert Field in Florida. The gunships pack some AWESOME firepower but their drawback is that they're slow and make big targets from the ground. But flying at night crewmembers are outfitted with NV equipment and have a decided advantage. WooHOO!

Spoooooky!

Posted: 10/16/2001 11:40:30 AM EDT

[#9]

Wow! One long flight from Florida to Afghanistan! How many in flight refuelings? [:)]

Perhaps taking off rom Uzbekistan?

AC

Posted: 10/16/2001 11:45:28 AM EDT

[#10]

New? I remember that plane from the old John Wayne movie, "The Green Berets". They called it Puff the Magic Dragon. It's probably upgraded with all kinds of GPS fire controls and high tech electronics now.

Posted: 10/16/2001 12:01:06 PM EDT

[#11]

Ah yes Puff The magic Dragon flies again. Like I have said before, paybacks a b!tch! Would not like to be on the receiving end of anything that can put 1 round in every square foot of a football field in 1 pass, more or less. They may be big slow flying targets but I for 1 wont not want to stick my head up and try to get a bead on one. I can see me launching a stinger, Puff deploys flares that fool the stinger, Puff swings around and follows the smoke trail from the stinger right back to me and sends down its reply. Not good.

Posted: 10/16/2001 12:23:11 PM EDT

[#12]

[img]http://www.theaviationzone.com/images/gunships/ac130/bin-1/ac130_26.jpg[/img]

Miniguns vs. Taliban infantry...putting the [b]hole[/b] in Holy War.

-kill-9

Posted: 10/16/2001 12:40:03 PM EDT

[#13]

So, how many rounds of ammo does the specter carry?

- CD

Posted: 10/16/2001 4:46:35 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
AC-130 facts
[url]http://www.theaviationzone.com/facts/ac130.htm[/url]

The Spectre Association
[url]http://www.spectre-association.org/[/url]

Sam's AC-130 page
[url]http://hometown.aol.com/SamC130/ac130.html[/url]

C-130 Hercules Headquarters AC-130 photo page
[url]http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/gunship.htm[/url]

looking at the 105mm Howitzer and the 40mm Bofors cannon. GAU 25mm guns are mounted forward.
Death from the sky!
[img]http://members.tripod.com/~a26invader/130aft4.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/images/ac130_04.jpg[/img]

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Check out that "Grim Reaper" decal.

Posted: 10/16/2001 6:12:23 PM EDT

[#15]

... it's a beautiful thing!
... so are our F18E/F pilots launching and landing on football fields in the dark of night. [img]http://aolsvc.aol.com/WebImage/PHOTOGALLERIES/News/night1011/p03night.jpg[/img]

Posted: 10/16/2001 6:21:51 PM EDT

[#16]

America's BIRD OF PREY!!!!

Posted: 10/16/2001 6:28:26 PM EDT

[#17]

3 C130's flew over our town here couple days ago. They were about 100' about the houses. They always did come over once in a while but since 9-11 they fly over more often and before there would be 2 of them but now there are 3 sometimes. the last time they came over they banked on they're sides just as they were over my house. Maybe they were practicing by targeting my house? naahhhh
-bricklayer

Posted: 10/16/2001 6:55:24 PM EDT

[#18]

[img]http://www.afa.org/magazine/graphics/0499gunships1.gif[/img]

[img]http://www.ac-119gunships.com/images/stinger/stgrphl000.jpg[/img]
Bulldog OUT

OOHRAHH

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