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Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: 2000sitt on March 30, 2003, 09:01:57 PM: Check this out fellas...Kinda long but WORTH IT=)AC130 Gunship Cam (http://www.tensec240.com/movies/ac130gunship.wmv)
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Estes on March 30, 2003, 09:04:17 PM: That is bad ass!
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Mini D on March 30, 2003, 10:18:14 PM: That's kinda old... from Afghanistan.
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Saurdaukar on March 30, 2003, 10:40:11 PM: Repost - but still good. :D

(Waits for bleeding hearts to show up, gets beer)
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Ike 2K# on March 30, 2003, 10:43:37 PM: are they trying to take out the talibans or trying to ruin the party?
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Post by: Hangtime on March 30, 2003, 10:46:37 PM: nope.. just a lil game of 'whack the raghead'.

just think what these gunships are doing at night ranging over the republican guard positions..

things that make you smile. ;)
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Ike 2K# on March 30, 2003, 10:49:16 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Hangtime
nope.. just a lil game of 'whack the raghead'.

just think what these gunships are doing at night ranging over the republican guard positions..

things that make you smile. ;)

AHEM!!!!!!!

that gun-cam was in AFGHANISTAN not IRAQ
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: -tronski- on March 30, 2003, 10:57:02 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ike 2K#
AHEM!!!!!!!

that gun-cam was in AFGHANISTAN not IRAQ

I think he knows that...

Tronsky
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Post by: Hangtime on March 30, 2003, 10:58:20 PM: *COUGH*

yah, no kiddin. flim clip was up in here last year. had a 100+ post string attached to it.

i was commenting on how much fun they must be having with 'em every night over the Republican Guard positions NOW in Iraq. Gotta be demoralizing as all hell to have the AC130's camped out on yer bellybutton all night, with Apaches and Warthogs slappin the **** outta yah all day.

like i said. things that make yah smile. ;)
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Post by: takeda on March 31, 2003, 12:45:21 AM: I don't think I'd like to man one of those with it's predictable flight path above dug-in troops with AA and SAMs
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Post by: Pooh21 on March 31, 2003, 01:10:15 AM: quit being a killjoy takeda
the apaches already nailed the sams and aa
You don't think theyd send an AC-130 in beforehand do ya?

That raghead SOB in that video learned a thing or two about "terror" didn't he?
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Post by: Tuomio on March 31, 2003, 02:31:04 AM: Well i wouldnt like to be the conventional Flak88 AA firing on that predictable flight path either..I think the SAM option is pretty much unavailable to the frontline troops.

I hope they release similar videos from the Iraq operation.
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Post by: Hortlund on March 31, 2003, 02:55:47 AM: There is one clip of a 1000 pounder slamming into a dug in T-72..have you seen that one? The one where there is a guy on the ground running like crazy a couple of secs before impact?
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Vulcan on March 31, 2003, 03:29:22 AM: And its not even an AC-130 Cam, I believe its Predator-Cam.

The AC-130 was flying high, hence the miniguns couldn't be used, and the Predator was doing target acquisition.
Title: shwweeett
Post by: BGBMAW on March 31, 2003, 08:57:36 PM: This is bad asssssssss

This ship is the last link between ww2 avaition(which i love) and spaceships that we have now...

4 engProp!!!
Huge cannons/miniguns hanging outside...

BAD ASSSSS

So when u see me in a flight of Deathstars...watch out..cause thats my SPectre...hheheheh

But..DAM good footage...What are those large explosions from the 105mm??

Crazy as heel..the guys says "clear for shot"..5 sec' salter hes "HOLD on!!"..i was ..Golly-gee...lololol

and ya...Iraq Soldier that footage will be quit brutle..

Bless our boys & girls out there

Salute
BiGB
xoxo
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: BGBMAW on April 11, 2003, 01:17:37 AM: ok..what was makn the bigascs explosions..the 105??
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: mjolnir on April 11, 2003, 04:02:40 AM: The huge explosions have to be the 105mm Howitzer. And that's a fun toy. On the other hand, the 40mm fires so quickly, and with so much muzzle velocity, that the pilots actually have to correct for the adverse yaw. The recoil pushes the nose of the plane to the right.
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Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on April 11, 2003, 07:23:45 AM: There is a former AC-130 gunner here in Aces High, he is a veteran of the Gulf war and the Panama campaign, and also a Vietnam veteran. He still flies with the Guard in Florida, and has been deployed a couple of times since 9/11 to the middle east. He is now in the refueling unit, the group of C-130s that does in flight refueling for the choppers. Great guy, he comes to see me here in Tennessee when his unit trains with the 101st Airborne, based in Fort Campbell KY/Clarksville TN. He can tell you anything you want to know about the AC-130 Spectre. He's got some of the best AARs of any flier I know, and I know a few good sticks.

By the way, the AC-130 flies at night because of SAMs. The only AC-130 lost in combat recently was lost in the 1991 Gulf war, because the pilot stayed on station until sunrise supporting a ground unit taking fire. He had been ordered to RTB 5 times, but chose to stay on station. Just after sunrise, his bird took a strike from a SAM on the outer wing near the fuel pod. When they rolled out of their fire cone orbit, the wing snapped, the spar must have broken due to damage. The plane spun in, there were no survivors.

So the next time you see a guy with the GameID of PILES, he flies Rooks for the 327th Steel Talons, give him a big << S >>, he's been flying for your safety and freedom for damned near 40 years. I count myself truly blessed to know him.
Title: the big explosions
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on April 11, 2003, 07:31:10 AM: Are indeed the 105 Howitzer artillery piece. The best of the gun crews can actually have as many as FIVE rounds of artillery in the air at one time. That's right, five rounds. The fifth is fired before the first hits the ground. Actually, the SOP is to fire a white phosphorous marker round from the twin mount 40mm Bofurs to make sure they are on target, then they open up and fire for effect. The Bofurs is basicly the same piece you've seen used as AAA onboard Navy ships. Word has it the two 20mm Vulcans can place a round in every square foot of a football field in mere seconds.
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Post by: AWMac on April 11, 2003, 08:15:42 AM: <~~~~~Tangled with an AC-130......ONCE. AcccccccccK
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Post by: BGBMAW on April 12, 2003, 04:21:48 PM: Cpt Hilts....

How how are Ac-130s usally when firing?

And what kinds of different shells do a 105 use??

HE-AP-Phosphurus?

I LOVE AC-130's!!!!!

Closest thing to a B-17 stillflying:)

Where are good places to read/see ac-130 footage/text?

Salute
BiGB
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Post by: Ammo on September 16, 2003, 02:02:34 AM: Captain Virgil Hilts

If your friend was/is a gunner in the past 23 years, I will know him.

The AC-130 we lost during the Gulf War was "Sprirt 03" and I was on "Sprirt 02." I lost my boss and friends on that night. We also lost a plane supporting another operation. My web page dedicated to them.
Sprirt 03 & Jockey 14 (http://members.cox.net/twosteppin/heroes)

(http://home.earthlink.net/~twosteppin/kill.jpg)
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Ammo on September 16, 2003, 02:17:44 AM: Can't comment on that.. sorry :(
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Post by: anonymous on September 16, 2003, 03:39:48 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Ammo
The AC-130 we lost during the Gulf War was "Sprirt 03"

i was on the ground involved in the party they were supporting. did they ever figured out what hit them? i know they stayed way later than usual because they didnt want to leave the guys on the ground in a bad way.
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: anonymous on September 16, 2003, 03:40:46 AM: Quote
Originally posted by GScholz
It that the film of the "wedding party"

no that movie is not the wedding party that was hit in afghanistan.
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Ammo on October 13, 2003, 03:19:49 AM: SA14
Title: AC130 Gunship Cam
Post by: Twist on October 13, 2003, 07:39:09 AM: Hey Ammo, I was stationed at Eglin with a tactical control squadron at aux fld 3 back in 83/84/85. 919th SOW was our neighbor.

I was fortunate on several occasions to be near a range where the Spectre's were practicing, simply awesome to watch.

Also watched a couple of A10's on that same range one time but I couldn't see much for the trees. They would pop up, turn, dive then 'BRRRRRRRRRRR' and do it again.

I remember our commander briefing us one morning about the gunship going down, followed by a very long moment of silence.