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WATCH: Deadly AC-130 Gunship In Action
Thin Line News ^ | June 12, 2021 | Meg Swinney

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?


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KEYWORDS: ac130; firepower; gunship
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To: Robert DeLong
"or when this was filmed....."

I remember it from when jorge busho was Traitor In Chief.

21 posted on 06/12/2021 4:59:54 PM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: ssapro

Yep.

As a cloud of spent brass falls to the ground.

5.56mm


22 posted on 06/12/2021 5:00:33 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: LouAvul
Wouldn't surprise me. 8>)

I still enjoyed it even with the low quality of the video. 8>)

23 posted on 06/12/2021 5:05:00 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

I was stationed at Ubon RTAFB when the Spookies were flying out of there. The playing of “Ghost Riders in the Sky” was banned in the NCO and Officer clubs because the crews would, um, free associate too vigorously.


24 posted on 06/12/2021 5:10:46 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“They aimed the damn things with a mark on the window and sighting over the end of the wing! “

Yeah, no IR night vision, relied on dropped parachute flares to see anything at night.

Have an old slide I took sitting on the Chu Lai perimeter watching Puff work over something a ways off. That stream of tracers was amazing.


25 posted on 06/12/2021 5:13:54 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: maddog55

I HELPED BUILD THEM.


26 posted on 06/12/2021 5:19:43 PM PDT by airdalechief
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To: maddog55

I HELPED BUILD THEM.


27 posted on 06/12/2021 5:19:44 PM PDT by airdalechief
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To: maddog55

I HELPED BUILD THEM.


28 posted on 06/12/2021 5:19:45 PM PDT by airdalechief
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To: doorgunner69

—”That stream of tracers was amazing.”

On the ground near impact, a fantastic help and terribly freighting at the same time.


29 posted on 06/12/2021 5:27:14 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Bonemaker

This was from Afghanistan. I saw this video some years ago on a site called “Weasel Zippers’’.


30 posted on 06/12/2021 6:25:56 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Afraid to blow up a mosque? That would be a perfect location for a weapons depot or fire base. Like they would have any problem attacking a church? No wonder we lost.


31 posted on 06/12/2021 8:41:07 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: jmacusa

They had some really good vids in the early 2000s. What happened to the site?


32 posted on 06/12/2021 11:22:01 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: M Kehoe
The AC-130 is the (Spectre/Spooky/Stinger).
This is one firing flares, giving it the Angel affect..








33 posted on 06/12/2021 11:29:59 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: Bikkuri

I don’t know. Haven’t been able to find it in a while.


34 posted on 06/13/2021 5:44:41 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Robert DeLong
Another one bites the dust is 12 years old, but I like the way the poster coordinated the song with the video. I watch it every so often when everything seems to be going into the tank. Besides the lyrics/song are neat - memories of Saturday afternoon Westerns.
35 posted on 06/13/2021 8:00:29 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: Oatka

For some reason it asks me to sign in, but I no longer remember what password I used. I was so looking forward to seeing and hearing the video too. 8>)


36 posted on 06/13/2021 8:12:34 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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