[Don Carlos]

The gunship has multiple weapons firing at the same time, hence the thousands a minute

Thousands a minute is easy. A 7.62 minigun rate of fire is around 6,000 per minute! It was the thousands per second I quibbled with.

Just saw the same rate of fire mentioned on FOX news. Seems no one researches or thinks anymore, they just repeat.

[bobsunshine]

Here are some specs on the AC-130

"It is a development of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and as such is slow, flying at less than 300mph, but has a range of at least 1,500 miles without needing to refuel and can loiter over a combat area for some time.

The AC-130s are operated by the US Air Force's special operations group, based at Hurlburt Field, Florida.

They have several big guns projecting from the left side of the fuselage: either two 40mm cannons or a 25mm Gatling gun that can fire up to 1,800 rounds per minute, depending on the version, and 40mm and 105mm cannons."

Now if they also send in the A-10 (warhog) that would be great.