[logi_cal869]

This article is disturbing in multiple respects (aside from 'Ain al-Asad redux' repeatedly, it smacks of propaganda or highlights either ROE or intelligence failure). There are odd contradictions which don't appear to be just bad writing.

Pick it apart if you see fit; not all details would fit in the excerpt.

[bert]

There is only fact that matters............. the offending truck was obliterated in seconds by what was probably a two second burst from a 30 mm gatling gun

[BobL]

“In an unusual twist, the AC-130 appeared to be flying with its transponder turned on”

Sounds like more DEI (or women’s lib) in the cockpit.

[EEGator]

Singh is the DoD Deputy Press Secretary. Contributing to the story was Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies

It certainly is interesting that their transponder was turned on.

I’m sure we we sent multiple carrier groups to the region for Hamas…
McCain’s corpse is getting excited.

[PIF]

AC-130Js do more than knock off a few soldiers/terrorists and the odd truck. Especially since the plane attacked 2 separate unrelated targets.

Better explanations found here:

AC-130 Ghostrider Gunship Strikes Iranian-Backed Militia In Iraq
This marks the fourth U.S. airstrike against Iranian-backed militias since Oct. 26 and the first on a target in Iraq.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ac-130-ghostrider-gunship-strikes-iranian-backed-militia-in-iraq

and here at 1.40 - 3.10 mark:

Wanted Pro-Iranian Commander Found in His Jeep! Israel Struck at Last Moment Large Arms Convoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ORsOFIx6M

[wita]

Thanks for the opportunity.

This scenario takes me back to 1968 over Laos in a C-123K and it’s truck killing night mission. I was at NKP, Spectre was South at Ubon, RTAB with somewhat the same mission only more crewmembers, much more expensive aircraft at a lower altitude and thus more susceptible to anti-aircraft fire.

To pit the nations air power against a ten thousand dollar truck is gross misuse of finite resources. There has to be a better way of striking the enemy without squandering an extremely valuable resource. Not to mention advertising your presence to any convienient radar.

As I recall, there was at least one Spectre gunship that was destroyed and another so heavily damaged by anti-aircraft guns it would never fly again while cruising “the trail” in search of enemy activity. A heavy price to pay for the small disruption the nightly activity had on the passage of men and equipment from North Vietnam to South Vietnam.

...and here we are in a much higher threat environment doing much the same as fifty plus years ago. Show of force is one thing, sending millions of dollars of equipment, and highly trained aircrew after one truck smacks of (fill in the blank).

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Moar bombing in the middle east!