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The AC-130U Gunship program explores viper strike capability
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| 10/31/2005
| Laura McGowan
Posted on 11/01/2005 10:37:14 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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I like it!
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I love that our government is constantly coming up with new ways to blow up the enemy. LOVE IT!
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:39:13 AM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Let's "demonstrate" it on the Taliban and the scumbags planting roadside bombs in Iraq.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:41:23 AM PST
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"The gunship has played a vital role in major conflicts since Vietnam, such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda..." "...and would have been deployed to Somalia if the president at the time wasn't too busy masturbating in the oval office sink."
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:41:39 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
We need to "step-up" the war on terror in IRAQ IMHO. I know we expect to take considerable thime there but I'd like to get a bit more agressive.
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:44:06 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
(Confirm Alito before year end!)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Ah, geesh.
They are trying to make the AC-130 even MORE lethal? :0)
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:45:18 AM PST
by
Skooz
(If you think Hitler was a Christian, you are a blithering idiot.)
To: Skooz
They are trying to make the AC-130 even MORE lethal? :0) There's a certain breed of 'geek' which loves doing that sort of thing ...
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:48:44 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Skooz
They are trying to make the AC-130 even MORE lethal?As the saying goes, too much is just about right.
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:53:14 AM PST
by
Steve0113
(Stay to the far right to get by.)
To: Joe 6-pack
In fairness to the former president, he wasn't
always "masturbating in the sink".
Sometimes he was shoving cigars into interns.
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:56:20 AM PST
by
Jaxter
("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:09:54 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: Steve0113
Using a hammer to kill an ant makes perfect sense.
It does not damage the hammer.
The ant never comes back to bother you.
Looks like a cheap Maverick, minus the hot tail gases. However, is this going to be one of those $1 million a shot weapons to take out a $2000 Opel? FWIW, the 40mm Bofors would be a good choice for the Opel.
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:10:36 AM PST
by
ASOC
(The result of choosing between the lesser of two evils still leaves you with - evil.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I wish the number of craft and the units that operate them were never revealed.
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:12:56 AM PST
by
em2vn
To: Steve0113
The AC-130U has a 25 mm Gatling gun that is able to fire 1,800 rounds per minute, and, along with the AC-130H, carries a rapid fire 40 mm Bofors cannon and a 105 mm Howitzer. The canons are located on the left side of the aircraft.
They are trying to make the AC-130 even MORE lethal?
As the saying goes, too much is just about right.
Adding flyable HEAT rounds seems like a nice addition. How about adding one of the Fuel Air super daisy cutters as well. Oh, I guess they weigh so much they save them for the other C-130's, just to share the fun.
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:12:58 AM PST
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
This is one poet who likes lots of military firepower!
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Hmmmmm...I wonder. Current armament is enough to take care of lightly skinned vehicles and bunkers. The viper would allow it to take out an occasional lone tank at stand off range, but let's hope someone doesn't decide to use the gunship viper combo as a pseudo A-10.
Armored columns tend to travel with a lot of anti-air firepower that a big plane like the gunship would have trouble avoiding.
I think it's great to add to the gunships capabilities, I just hope the capabilities are used wisely. Remember, it's a force multiplier, and that works both ways. You lose one gunship, it takes a whole bunch of other aircraft to do the same job.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Best Regards
Sergio
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:32:42 AM PST
by
Sergio
(If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
To: Robert357
Just as I was having a nostalgic moment about "Puff".
Always did like the C47.
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:33:37 AM PST
by
River_Wrangler
(You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him float on his back!)
To: Sergio
I think the idea is to add precision to the AC130, not to make an A-10 out of it.
The big advantage of the AC130 in counterinsurgency is the loiter time.
But its cannons aren't quite good enough at avoiding collateral damage.
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:38:35 AM PST
by
buwaya
To: SirChas
"The AC-130U has a 25 mm Gatling gun that is able to fire 1,800 rounds per minute"
Hmm. I might be able to fire my single shot .270 (just shy of 7mm) 4 times a minute. Sounds like I need to upgrade.
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:49:49 AM PST
by
mad puppy
( The Southern border needs to be a MAJOR issue in 2006 and 2008)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I'll bet a Predator with a couple wings full of Vipers would be quite the terror weapon with its 24 hr loiter time. Bad guys could get real nervous knowing that thing is overhead waiting for one of them to pop their head up, then POOF! Bad guy splattered across the ground without warning.
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posted on
11/01/2005 12:05:51 PM PST
by
FlyVet
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