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'Ghostrider' gunship upgrade gives Air Force Special Ops Command its 'most lethal aircraft'
The Washington Times ^ | March 11, 2019 | Douglas Ernst

Posted on 03/11/2019 3:34:15 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: allendale

Of course it is over. It was declared to be over during the Carter administration.


21 posted on 03/11/2019 4:19:32 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Good one. LOL!


22 posted on 03/11/2019 4:20:16 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

BUMP


23 posted on 03/11/2019 4:24:39 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Lockbox

More like Spooky’s highly evolved descendant.


24 posted on 03/11/2019 4:31:10 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: jazusamo

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/467756/ac-130j-ghostrider/


25 posted on 03/11/2019 4:34:11 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: jazusamo

A-10’s big brother? I dig those props.. Sneaky quiet?


26 posted on 03/11/2019 4:35:28 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It can only shoot from one side though.


27 posted on 03/11/2019 4:36:59 PM PDT by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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To: Blueflag

Thanks!


28 posted on 03/11/2019 4:39:32 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Starboard

preferably at our southern border.


29 posted on 03/11/2019 4:39:47 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: jazusamo

Deploy it to the no go zones in the US


30 posted on 03/11/2019 4:47:31 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: DesertRhino; jazusamo
A customer and friend in the PANG, was Captain of a AC-130U 'Spooky' in Afghanistan, for 3 tours, and gave me the clip of 40mm shells and a 125mm Howitzer shell, plus his wing's pocket medallion. It was a formidable plane back them; bet it's a real ass-kicker now.


31 posted on 03/11/2019 4:58:54 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DesertRhino; jazusamo

ERROR:

That’d be 105mm, not 125mm Howitzer.
I need to take a Prevagen.


32 posted on 03/11/2019 5:02:46 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: jazusamo
Very cool.

However, hard to believe that a couple terrorists with shoulder fired SAMs can't put it face first into the dirt.

It's my understanding that USA troops now have line-of-sight missile aiming goggles that are impervious to normal missile defense systems.

In other words, the missile flies directly at the target the goggles are staring at, regardless of flares, chaff, or electronic counter-measures.

33 posted on 03/11/2019 5:06:50 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: carriage_hill

That was cool of him to give you those.


34 posted on 03/11/2019 5:10:33 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: KC_Lion

PING!


35 posted on 03/11/2019 5:12:42 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: jazusamo

The day of SpecOps is drawing to a close.

The theory is wrong.

If they can’t beat the Taliban, they can’t beat anybody. We need an army and a navy that can beat China in a stand up fight, so we don’t have to have one.


36 posted on 03/11/2019 5:13:15 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Unless we start using it to defend the country, at the border, there is no use in spending the money for these weapons.

+1

37 posted on 03/11/2019 5:14:02 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: jazusamo

My nursery/garden center/lscp contracting business did free design and installation for all returning service members, and since his family’s home was new, it was a breeze. He gave me those shells & PANG Medallion, which I still have, as a thank you.

Cap’n Scott and I used to go shooting together, before I got sick in 2017 w/ Acute-Severe Pancreatitis.


38 posted on 03/11/2019 5:20:34 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Lockbox

“Spooky”?

No. Spookier.


39 posted on 03/11/2019 5:23:30 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: carriage_hill
My nursery/garden center/lscp contracting business did free design and installation for all returning service members

Congratulations my FRiend, what a wonderful thing to do for our returning service members.

Best wishes for a full recovery for your malady!

40 posted on 03/11/2019 5:31:16 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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