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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I don't think anybody else has AC-130s.

I don't think anyone else has anything even vaguely like an AC-130. Although I do recall one of the Latin American Air Forces, El Salvador perhaps, having C-47s with side firing heavy machine guns, pretty much like the AC-130s grandpa,the AC-47 Puff the Magic Dragon/Spooky, although those had GE Mini-guns (Gatlings).

671 posted on 01/08/2007 8:20:10 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato; mystery-ak; bnelson44; All
I don't think anyone else has anything even vaguely like an AC-130.

Israel? C-130H

Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf looks on during talks with faction leaders and elders west of the capital Mogadishu, December 30, 2006. Yusuf entered Mogadishu on Monday, capping a remarkable turn-around in the capital Islamists ruled for six months until they were ousted before the New Year

A Somali refugee girl licks a cup with food received during school hours in Ifo camp near Dadaab, some 80 km (50 miles) from Liboi on the border with Somalia in north-eastern Kenya, January 8, 2007.

Somali police forces sitting on a pick-up truck patrol the streets of the capital Mogadishu, January 7, 2007.

Government soldiers stand guard at the Villa Somalia compound in Mogadishu, Monday, Jan. 8, 2007 where the Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf is staying after he arrived in the Somali capital on Monday. Somalia's president flew into the beleaguered capital, Mogadishu by plane Monday, his first visit since taking office in 2004. President Abdullahi Yusuf arrived despite mounting security concerns and ten days after his forces backed by Ethiopian troops, tanks and warplanes drove a rival Islamic movement out of the city.

This one's real purty ..

Give 'em HELL, boys and girls!

695 posted on 01/08/2007 9:07:09 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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