Photo: Close-Up of the AC-130U's Main Gun

[Ex-jazz]

     I know which side I'll be rooting for, why don't you pick one?

Please, define the term 'side' first.

[4440]

See where this thread now headed

[phatzo]

I the video I watched targets were verified and no action was taken untill the intel was recieved, even to the point of avoiding damaging a mosque even though it was surrounded by enemy.

[TwinEng]

You know, that building did not look like any typical Mosque to me.   It looks like an ordinary warehouse.  But it could have been used as one.   It is obvious from the video that the US soldiers are actually unsure, but they decide to error on the side of caution, treating it as a Mosque.

In sharp contrast, both Sunni and Shia extremists have no problem at all in planting bombs at the Mosques of the other sect. 

So in reality, the armed forces of the USA actually show far more respect to Muslims and to their Mosques than their own fellow Muslims do.

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[oneway]

Check back here in about (a few) minutes...I am uploading a full length, high resolution dual channel audio version of that film to my remote server...

I will leave it up for a few days...

Download and save it to your drive...

This is the original version of that film when it was leaked...

I am trying to retain the quality while decreasing size and preserving the dual audio channel...

Patience...

 

Oneway

Format mpeg and I need to convert it...

Link will be here in just a bit...

[Plawranc]

Well.

As far as I can see, anyone on the recieving end of the C-130's firepower is on a oneway trip to hell. God Bless American engineering.

[TwinEng]

That is amazing that the plane has a crew of 13.   That must easily be the most of any US warplane, no??

I wonder what all of their assignments are?   After all, there are only 3 weapons to service.     

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[ACE]

Thats a big gun lol.



-Spektor

[nirvana]

I don't care which gun is MAIN. I don't want to be on the receiving end of any of them.

Exactamundo.  I don't want to be getting shot at by anything.  Nice pic though.

[Rino]

Please, define the term 'side' first.

     If you cannot see the difference, then you are hopeless and not worth my time.

[TwinEng]

We could always go the route of actor Matthew Modine, and just sit down next to Osama Bin Laden and ask him why he is so angry with us.   Does Matthew's suggestion not make sense to everyone?

Here is a news article about his idea, with a link to a video of him saying this:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2010/03/30/matthew-modine-lets-ask-bin-laden-why-hes-so-angry-with-us/


I wonder if Modine really got the chance to stit down with Osama, how Osama would treat him?

And here I had thought Modine was so good in the WWII movie "The Memphis Belle".

Here is part of what he said:

“Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama Bin Ladin and say, ‘listen man,what is it that you’re so angry at me about that you’re willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings.’ That would be the miracle if we can get, sit down and talk to our enemies and find a way for them to hear us.” – Matthew Modine

So the solution to this war is simple.  Just sit down with Osama, and we can then work everything out.

Here is a photo of Osama waiting for Modine to come sit down with him:



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[Ex-jazz]

     If you cannot see the difference, then you are hopeless and not worth my time.

It is possible, we just little bit miss-understood each others here.

[USRanger]

AC-130 crews saved my life twice.  Nothin' but love for them fellas.

[Penguin]

That is amazing that the plane has a crew of 13.   That must easily be the most of any US warplane, no??

I wonder what all of their assignments are?   After all, there are only 3 weapons to service.     

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5 Officers

1. Pilot
2. Copilot
3. Navigator
4. Fire Control Officer
5. Electronics Warfare Officer

8 Enlisted

1. Flight Engineer
2. TV Operator
3. Infrared Detection Set Operator
4. Load Master
5-8. Gunners

5 Officers + 8 Enlisted = 13 crew over all

Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC130

-Penguin

[Maverick]

Those are big guns. The 40 and the 105 are loaded by hand. The 40 with clips and the 105 single rounds. None of them are light and they have to be moved from the ammo storage to the guns. Empties have to be policed up and out of the way so that the targets can be serviced.