WICTOR:
Thomas Wictor https://social.quodverum.com/@ThomasWic/105912398731077125
For @YMKYMFOI
You wrote:
“AC130 gunship going home after practicing making life difficult for someone on the ground over Alabama.”
March 18, 2021, 2:15 PM · Web · 8 · 88 · 168
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
That’s AC-130J Ghostrider “Aces High.”
It belongs to 4th Special Operations Squadron, 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida.
It landed at Hurburt.
https://www.omhphotos.com/p1002661014/hA30A390E#ha30a390e
Lockheed AC-130J Ghostrider (13-5783)
www.omhphotos.com
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
The Ghostrider has a 105mm howitzer and a 30mm autocannon mounted on its port (left) side.
What it does is fly in a “pylon turn” so that the guns—which are computer-controlled and fired by the pilot—are continuously kept on the target.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
Here are the guns in action:
The 30mm first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPC9uItJxYE
AC-130W Stinger II • 30mm GAU-23 Autocannon In Action
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
And the 105mm howitzer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_GnGKZ4e7k
AC-130U Gunship One Minute Drill 13Rnds 105mm
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
These aircraft used to have 25mm Gatling cannons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l73ndvOA1FU
Gatling Cannon Fire!! AC-130 Gunship - 25mm GAU-12 Equalizer - ガトリング砲発射!!・AC-130ガンシップ 25mm機関砲
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
They also had 40mm autocannons.
The military brass—in all its wisdom—removed all the guns and made the aircraft into a missile-firing platform.
They they quietly put the 30mm gun back on.
And then they quietly put the howitzer back on.
Now, I have video that CLEARLY shows four-engine turboprops—the sound is unmistakable—with TWO side-firing autocannons.
In Syria.
Defending the Kurds.
I traced the history of all the AC-130s decommissioned, and one two-autocannon AC-130A was scrapped.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
The specially designed gun mounts were sold to parties unknown.
I know who bought them.
The Saudis.
They built their own AC-130s and their own A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthogs.
GREEN A-10s were photographed over Syria.
OUR A-10s are gray, and they were not allowed to fly over Syria until after this video was taken.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
The Saudis and their allies use INCREDIBLY aggressive tactics, flying much lower than we’re allowed to fly.
The UAE has AMMROC, where they built their copies of the AC-130 gun mounts and the copies of the A-10, using the original plans.
Money was no option, of course.
Military Aviation MRO Services & Logistics Support | AMMROC
AMMROC provides industry-leading maintenance, repair & overhaul (MRO) services & integrated military logistics support for the military & civil aviation
ammroc.edgegroup.ae
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
So what about THIS?
That AC-130 was flying over Jackson, Alabama.
Training for precision strikes in urban combat.
I don’t know if this has ever been done before.
They were orbiting THE CITY.
You know what they were doing?
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
They were practicing pinpointing specific ROOMS in specific building, using digital models of the city.
This is why Trump stays out of sight.
Things might be FAR more advanced than we know.
And by that, I mean the Chinese, Russians, and Iranians may be preparing for offensive military action here in the continental US.
All they have to do is dress in black.
They’ll have no shortage of American cannon fodder.
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Thomas Wictor @ThomasWic@social.quodverum.com
An old Chinese curse:
“May you live in interesting times.”
Damn right the times are interesting.
The good news is that “devolutiuon” and major kinetic warfare can now be carried out clandestinely, without disrupting our lives.
Incredible. Heartening AND terrifying at the same time.
So:
Anyone here EVER going to vote Democrat again?!
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geez.....one minute one is reading something positive and then get bombarded with “the chinese,et al, might be preparing for a operation on US soil”....just great...
They were practicing pinpointing specific ROOMS in specific building, using digital models of the city. This is why Trump stays out of sight. Things might be FAR more advanced than we know. And by that, I mean the Chinese, Russians, and Iranians may be preparing for offensive military action here in the continental US. All they have to do is dress in black. They’ll have no shortage of American cannon fodder.
Who is the target, us or them? These posts get harder and harder for me to translate.
ThankQ greeneyes!
Ping to military hardware ....
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3942345/posts?page=1227#1227
I can’t figure out the context around those links, at all. More coffee.
A lot of descriptive fire power capability, armor coming and going and coming again, advancement in confined space wargaming, but wth is Wictor’s overall fine point, besides “Heartening and terrifying at the same time”.
I’m a dunderhead. I miss basic “story telling”, with use of the essentials for telling it.
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