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Video: Iraqi Terrorists Toasted by AC-130
Navlog.org

Posted on 05/02/2006 8:36:27 PM PDT by Paddlefish

This is remarkable film footage. This is a night vision movie from Iraq, showing live action against Iraqi insurgents. The pictures were taken from an AC-130 Specter gunship two and a half miles from the target. The guys in the picture are setting up a roadside bomb and planning to ambush an American convoy which followed a short while after the pictures were taken. They were setting up the ambush and were pacing off the distance from the bomb to where the convoy was to pass by.

Turn your sound up. The level of effort these Specter crews put forth to control the enemy's antics is commendable, and their marksmanship with those electronically controlled 40mm cannons is astounding.

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KEYWORDS: antiterrorism; apache; apachevideo; endoftheline; gunship; gwot; iraq; military; terror; terrorists; video; waronterror; wot
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Wow, this is an incredible look at what the soldiers really experience. I get the feeling this is an old video, but probably worth looking at again.
1 posted on 05/02/2006 8:36:30 PM PDT by Paddlefish
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To: Paddlefish
Your feeling is correct. This video was, like, the first thing on the internet ever.

Still fun to watch, though. ^_^

2 posted on 05/02/2006 8:37:46 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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We should start executing those who keep posting this. OLD OLD video.


3 posted on 05/02/2006 8:38:41 PM PDT by zarf (It's time for a college football playoff system.)
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Gee. The first 40 times I saw it, it was an Apache that waxed 'em.


4 posted on 05/02/2006 8:39:38 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Paddlefish; Gordongekko909; zarf

This is is an Apache that takes them out, not a C-130. It is in Iraq and I believe that it was 2003.


5 posted on 05/02/2006 8:41:22 PM PDT by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Islamofascism)
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To: Paddlefish
Seen this long ago, but thought it was an Apache.

Looks like a chain gun from a helo to me. Also, the angle looks lower.
6 posted on 05/02/2006 8:41:42 PM PDT by ryan71
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Well, this is the first time I've seen it... so thanks!


7 posted on 05/02/2006 8:42:15 PM PDT by mwyounce
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Let me grab some popcorn.


8 posted on 05/02/2006 8:42:19 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: Paddlefish

Apache, but it's an oldie but goodie always worth another view.


9 posted on 05/02/2006 8:43:45 PM PDT by bannedfromdu
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To: TomServo

Yea, it's an apache.. seen it a few times as well. Still, watched it again though.


10 posted on 05/02/2006 8:44:51 PM PDT by Andy28 (Proud US Army DEP'er, shipping in June. Hooah!)
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That must have been cool getting the AC-130 to hover like that.


11 posted on 05/02/2006 8:45:34 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (The Stations of the Cross in Poetry ---> http://www.wayoftears.com)
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To: zarf

"We should start executing those who keep posting this. OLD OLD video."


Sorry, but maybe some of us just "old, old".,-} But I hadn't seen it and it seemed to be fairly recent on navlog.


12 posted on 05/02/2006 8:47:26 PM PDT by Paddlefish ("You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.")
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I heard on the Prager show; the Terrorists are often of Nationalities not of Iran; like a high percentage. Has anyone heard this? So, it's not that important to me, but they may not be "Iraqi" per se. Anyone correct me if I am wrong.


13 posted on 05/02/2006 8:48:17 PM PDT by roadrunner96
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To: Straight Vermonter
That must have been cool getting the AC-130 to hover like that.

LOL!!

14 posted on 05/02/2006 8:48:20 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Paddlefish

"We should start executing those who keep posting this. OLD OLD video."


Sorry, but maybe some of us just "old, old".,-} But I hadn't seen it and it seemed to be fairly recent on navlog.


Sorry again, I mean AREN'T "old, old".


15 posted on 05/02/2006 8:48:22 PM PDT by Paddlefish ("You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.")
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To: Straight Vermonter

That's the new Osprey wing conversion.


16 posted on 05/02/2006 8:49:13 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: Paddlefish

I like this one better:

http://www.navlog.org/marineresponse.wmv


17 posted on 05/02/2006 8:53:00 PM PDT by Solamente (Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out)
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Nice head shot!


18 posted on 05/02/2006 8:56:19 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (What's so hard to understand about the word illegal?)
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To: Paddlefish

Holy cow.


19 posted on 05/02/2006 8:56:56 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Solamente

Smack thru the brain pan. Get some...


20 posted on 05/02/2006 8:58:24 PM PDT by jonascord ("Republic. I like the sound of the word...")
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