It always bad news for the bad guys then Spectre shows up
Posted on 09/04/2014 8:32:37 AM PDT by GonzoII
Since early Thursday morning, United States military planes have begun shelling the outskirts of Mosul, a Sunni-majority city in northern Iraq and military post of Islamic State (IS) militants.
According to a source from the Peshmerga forces stationed near Mosul, US warplanes began bombing the hideouts of IS militants in Mosul and the surrounding areas in the ill-lit hours of dawn.
The current shelling began in the neighborhoods of Somar and Intisari, which are on the outskirt of Mosul.
US planes also attacked high buildings in the city that have been used as hideouts and supply storage by the Jihadi group.
A few days ago, US warplanes dropped thousands of paper leaflets on Mosul, urging residents to stay clear of places occupied by the Islamic State militants.
Since early June, Mosul and other Sunni areas in northern Iraq have been overrun by the Islamic State, looking to create a new caliphate. Ever since their brutal occupation, thousands of people from Mosul have fled to the Kurdistan Region.
“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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