Posted on 06/12/2021 2:58:37 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
No idea where this is, or when this was filmed, as the site only provides the video. Afghanistan perhaps?
“No idea where this is...”
I have some ideas where it should be.๐
A coworker of many years was a pilot of the original C-47 (?)Puff the Dragon.
They scared the crap out of me at the same time giving security.
If I had known what he told me back then, I would have frozen solid on the spot forevermore.
They aimed the damn things with a mark on the window and sighting over the end of the wing! Then fly in a fixed turn.NO COMPUTERS, NO RADAR, NO NOTHING!!!
He also said, they experimented with 155mm cannons!
That was difficult for me to believe... Today it is SOP.
I was waiting for that response. 8>)
Minneapolis?
Portland?
If it was Afghanistan, the C130s will soon be gone and the Taliban will still be there.
We didn’t learn from the Russian experience.
Hi.
It was either ‘75 or 76 I saw a live fire exercise at Ft. Riley KS. (Big Red One). I think the AC 130 was called Specter or Puff the Magic Dragon?
Very entertaining if you’re not the one at ground zero.
5.56mm
Yeah, I would venture to guess that is an accurate statement. 8>)
Plenty of democrat cities that need a “tune up”! Also, I think I want a FLIR/thermal imaging riflescope.๐
After spooky came “puff the magic dragon”. They looked like a red ray gun firing in the dark north of Saigon. Then came Spectra that had radar aimed canon that could hit a truck miles away and spray close up. That was 50 years ago.
Finally.. something worth reading. I worked on C130 weapon systems for several years. Awesome multi- mission aircraft.
A-10โs are pretty impressive to see too. The sound of the 30 mm is scary.
Death from above! ‘You can run but you’ll only die tired...’
This has been around for a while. Always wondered why all the mosques are off limits. They should have leveled every single one of them!
Joseph Stolen will be using them on us someday soon.
to prevent 4 hour erections :)
Very old video - looks like a copy of the original which is much clearer.
Today’s AC-130J Ghostriders Block 20 (Air Force Special Operations Command) come equipped with:
The AC-130J is fitted with an AN/ALR-56M radar warning receiver, AN/AAR-47 (V) 2 missile warning system, and AN/ALE-47 countermeasures dispensing system for reduced susceptibility ...
the modular Precision Strike Package (PSP) for the aircraft. The armament kits under the PSP include a 30mm GAU-23 automatic side firing chain gun, a 105mm cannon, and Standoff Precision Guided Munitions (SOPGM) comprising wing-mounted GBU-39 small diameter bombs and AGM-176 Griffin laser-guided missiles. The internally mounted missiles can be launched through the rear cargo door.
The intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment under the PSP include two electro-optical/infrared sensors, an all-weather synthetic aperture radar pod, a pilot helmet-mounted cueing system, and multiple video, data and communication links.
Some variants have a laser-like pod of unknown capabilities
I saw these in Vietnam in the mid-60’s.
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