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The Spookiest story in Vietnam: The AC-47 gunship (12 PHOTOS)
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| 8/7/2015
| Chris Eger
Posted on 08/08/2015 6:58:04 AM PDT by rktman
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GE. We bring good things to life. Hehehehe. Not so much for the nva and vc once Puff started that left banking turn. With pics.
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posted on
08/08/2015 6:58:04 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
Mobile border fence?
Just a thought...
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:10:51 AM PDT
by
JJ_Folderol
(Cancelled due to lack of interest.)
To: rktman
Dont you know they’d like to circle one of these over Tea Party rallys.
To: Wilderness Conservative
Yeah, but they’d have to hire someone to touch those yucky gun thingys.
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:12:12 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
To: rktman
The Dragons were spectacular to watch from a distance. Even though only every fifth round was a tracer, the result was a flaming waterfall effect. (I’ve never seen the new AC-130s which also include 40mm Bofors and a 105mm howitzer. I think they’re called Spooky too.)
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:12:58 AM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
To: rktman
A Huey with a minigun could make quite a light show also.
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:13:02 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Afterguard
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:18:38 AM PDT
by
bruoz
To: rktman
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:20:32 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: bruoz
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:22:06 AM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
To: rktman
They used to remake them from DC-3s into Puffs on the N. side of Miami Int’l airport. Used to see them being worked on. They had some A-26 Invaders also. That, was a really cool plane.
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:23:09 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: rktman
Not to mention, they wouldn’t be very effective with one-round “clips”.
Maybe they could talk the Tea Partiers into going to therapy sessions with those jihadis.
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:23:28 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: rktman
Only 50? Should have had 5000. Would have won the war.
But I guess that was never really the goal, winning.
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:24:05 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump/Cruz '16)
To: rktman
I heard that there was a C-117 variant as well. Does anyone know for sure?
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:25:35 AM PDT
by
wjcsux
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: Afterguard
I can remember watching when the were attacking at a distance at night, you would see that red line start to form in the dark sky and watch as it got longer and longer. Then it would separate and travel to earth where it would then get shorter and shorter. Only then would you start to hear that unmistakable sound, kinda like canvas ripping.
I would always think that somebody was having a really bad night.
The captured prisoners said the only thing they feared more than the B-52 strikes was Snoopy.
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:26:51 AM PDT
by
Ace the Biker
(I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
To: Ace the Biker
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:28:02 AM PDT
by
Ace the Biker
(I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
To: Ace the Biker
This is the "tracer tornado" produced by an AC-130:
To: rktman
Manufactured at the Springfield Armory if my memory is correct before McNamara “the knife” axed it. The Armory was converted into a community college (STCC). Without getting too into the weeds I know someone who machined the parts for the gun and got an award for a cost cutting measure...
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:31:26 AM PDT
by
taildragger
(It's Cruz & Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
To: Ace the Biker
Couple more, this time from AC-47s:
To: Ace the Biker
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:35:14 AM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: bruoz
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posted on
08/08/2015 7:35:18 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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