The AC-130J Ghostrider was delivered to Air Force Special Operations Command on March 6, 2019,
in Crestview, Florid. (Image: U.S. Air Force, Senior Airman Caleb Pavao)
Posted on 03/11/2019 3:34:15 PM PDT by jazusamo
The AC-130J Ghostrider was delivered to Air Force Special Operations Command on March 6, 2019,
in Crestview, Florid. (Image: U.S. Air Force, Senior Airman Caleb Pavao)
The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship is officially the “most lethal aircraft” in Air Force Special Operations Command’s inventory.
Close air support for America’s elite warriors dramatically improved this month when the improved gunship and its “Precision Strike Package” was unveiled Wednesday at Bob Skies Airport in Crestview, Florida.
Special Forces Operators were previously assisted by the Block 20 version.
“The AC-130J Block 30 is our most lethal aircraft in the AFSOC inventory...
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Spooky?
The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship is officially the “most lethal aircraft” in Air Force Special Operations Command’s inventory.
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OK, then promptly demonstrate its capabilities in a live engagement so we can judge for ourselves.
“2”? Me likey!
Is it still called “Puff, the Magic Dragon?”
Sounds like Spooky on steroids.
I second that. :)
Hell ya!
Stop the invading hoards at the Rio Grande.
They may already have. Remember the one in Syria last year. Wagner Group noticed.
Let’s wrap this baby up, Folks! Less the $2k to go!
Unless we start using it to defend the country, at the border, there is no use in spending the money for these weapons.
This thing would rip up some coyote smugglers :-)
I did an architectural project for the maintenance group who serviced the AC130’s at Hurlburt Field in the Florida Panhandle. As a reward for a job well done, I was allowed to ride as an observer on a live-fire night exercise. Amazing experience. I don’t think I stopped smiling for a month. I am smiling right now 20 years later just thinking about it.
I’m smiling with you and would love to be able to do that.
Eventually that aircraft will be just as lethal and fly without pilots. Other long range aircraft will also be pilotless and instead of bombs will launch all sorts of drones. Future battlefields will be directed by young technosavy people in bunkers with joysticks behind consoles. The battles will resemble computer games but will be very real.
The stripped out the 40mm gun and the 25mm, and replaced the with a single 30mm.
A new Spooky
Yep. Any doubt that the era of surface capital ships is over?
Maverick: Tower, this is Ghost rider requesting a flyby.
Air Boss Johnson: That’s a negative Ghost rider, the pattern is full.
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