Very enlightening ... if a bit disturbing ....

[Gator]

This is a video of a AC-130 Gunship targeting ground targets in Afghanistan. Very instructive. I did not fully realize the capabilities and frankly they are a bit enlightening. Just be glad they are in the hands of us and not some others....

http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=0 ... 6794448064

[Softball]

Simply amazing how much firepower that thing can shovel out. It looked like there were bombs going off, and not bullets spraying. I assume there are explosives in the bullets?

Either way, that C-130 OWNZ!! You can run but you can't hide.

[Hammer]

ummm - the guns are 40 and 105mm cannons...

[Softball]

ummm - the guns are 40 and 105mm cannons...

WOAH! I thought the C-130 Gunship fired a 30MM mini-gun, or am I thinking of something else? I remember seeing a show on the WINGS Discovery channel on the C-130 Gunship and it used a mini-gun for shooting targets. Knowing that they are firing 105MM rounds, that is scarey as hell.

Flying Artilliary, GULP!

Thanks for the clarification Steel.

[Gator]

I believe they also have the miniguns you mentioned, but i thought they were 20mm. Perhaps they are just not visible in that video. One thing i read about the AC130 was that it could basically kick over into a nice banking turn and saturate a single ground spot with fire - a cone of fire.

From fas.org ( http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ac-130.htm )

Armament:
two M61 20mm Vulcan cannons with 3,000 rounds
one L60 40mm Bofors cannon with 256 rounds
one M102 105mm howitzer with 100 rounds

[daofcmacg]

Does anyone have the AC130 firing a salvo video. Of course I waited to late and now its unavailable from the link.

DA

[Softball]

Here you go DA, I put it on my Xplanefreeware server:

C-130 Video

Enjoy.

Yes, we still use TSH, and I have no problems with it. It must be user error. :lol:

[daofcmacg]

man I have never seen anything like that before. Where do I get one of those. I gots to call Target and order one :lol: .

DA