AC-130U Spooky
Not so much a plane as a huge f*cking flying castle of doom.
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I don’t get it. It’s not funny.
It’s an AC-130 gunship. That thing can pump out massive amounts of damage. You call that thing in for an airstrike and the enemy can kiss their ass goodbye. All that will be left is a stain on the ground and a bloodmist.
In Vietnam, it was called Puff the Magic Dragon, iirc.
Bring the fire, bring the rain!
Thanks
Thanks for the explanations but I still don’t see how this can be funny
well i think that the humorous part is the old american military philosophy “if it moves we’ll put a gun on it and kill s**t”
Typical American Idealism: Bigger is Better, and if you’re really an American you’ll be thinking all kind of dirty things from that ideal
You’re right, I did.
Yeah, that gunship was called in mostly to lay down fire when ground troops were pinned down. My dad flew one. All guns, no armor, they were often shot through on flights. They were also called puff the magic dragon.
um, how is that? for one they fly at night and fly with no lights on. and two, there up pretty much a mile high, last i checked its pretty hard to shoot something like that with a rifle.
its called called flak. and when youre throwing out that much lead….yeah…youre begging to get noticed.
“Puff, the magic dragon… try to lol over their name, I DARE YOU”
Tracers work both ways. Against a night sky, the muzzle flash of 105mm artillery, 40mm auto cannon and 20 mm Vulcan guns is fairly unmistakable.
Dude, this is a badass plane. size doesnt matter. how many guns you put on it does. (<sarcasm)
True, but in this case, it works.
But i’m not american so you can shut up.
Well Its hard to mount that many weapons to a little Cessna Skyhawk, why don’t you try it
Well its worked pretty well for America so far so I think well stick with it
That is indeed right.
how the hell do you not get it!?!??!?!?!! it’s a plane with huge f**king guns
umm u mean arse on ass… an ass is a donkey an arse is someones rear end… and i really don’t see people kissing their donkeys goodbye…
COMMENT FAIL
Comment WIN
It’s a huge comment fail actually. Arse=british ass=american.
Agreement WIN
In all honesty, it all depends on what country they’re from…
Actually, the AC-47, the gunship version of the C-47 or DC-3 was called Puff. The 130H is Spectre, the 130U is Spooky. This picture is a 130U, so it’s Spooky. I used to work with a Spectre squadron when they would come out on TDY to Nellis.
Thank you. I was waiting for someone to make the distinction between the 130 and the DC3.
^This.
And anyone who doesn’t appreciate the ability to accurately place enough firepower to devastate whole companies of enemy troops in mere seconds should be strapped under the wing of an AC-130U during a fire support mission.
To understand the weapon, one must understand the mission. To understand the mission, one must understand the objective. For all else, sheesh, ask someone who’s actually used the weapon itself …
The original intent for this weapon was to support ground troops caught in an inescapable situation. Often, ground troops would call out for support, in any form, and the results were often to their own detriment – it is often difficult to be precise from a quarter-to-half mile away, using artillery (ie mortar rounds). And, it was VERY difficult to insert more troops to either sustain the operation or save/rescue those who remained to fight to the last.
In a well written piece (look it up if you have time) there were command-level meetings where EVERYONE was pissed because troops were regularly trapped in very bloody crossfire situations, and the resulting support might have made the situation worse. The C-47 outfitted with guns could provide close air support, as well as target SAM locations to increase the effectiveness of Navy, Marine, and Air Force air raids deep within combat areas. The gunship was born …
I’ve supported this mission, back in the early 80′s. There are variants of C-130s, and I’ve worked on all but one: the WC-130 (based out of Keesler AFB, Biloxi MS – the Hurricane Hunters). To note, there are these: EC-130, RC-130, MC-130 (killer aircraft with the “whiskers”), C-130. Each has a very specific mission …
Also, to answer a point raised in a later comment within this thread, the US Air Force maintains a ‘letter designator’ for the aircraft to denote the modification level, both major and minor (the best way to describe this to you all). The first letter is for the overall mission (AC-130 = attack, EC-130 = electronic countermeasures/etc, WC-130 = weather) and the trailing letter is for block level (C-130E = e-block mod-level or C-130J = j-block mod-level). The most obvious example is the C-130J model, which is a 6-prop variant of the engine and a longer fuselage … to note just a couple. So, the Air Force will have some EC-130E or EC-130J aircraft … etc …
And, if you ask anyone who called for air support, and realized that all around them the earth shook and was ripped apart – even as close as 50 meters – yet they were able to continue without further casualties … you know someone who has seen the power and precision of this particular aircraft. The targeting systems alone are enough to stun you … and yes, the only ones to tell stories of the AC-130s might are on OUR SIDE!
God Bless and God Speed to all those in AFSOC! To this day one of my best days in the US Air Force were in support of AFSOC … until I ended up at Beale AFB, the home of the Blackbird and Dragon Lady … yeah, look those up … heh-heh-heh …
Hopefully I’ve added a little bit more background?
Wouldn’t helicopters be more suited for close support.
Like Apaches or Comanches, they can dish out much damage and are easier to get closer with and remain there.
Egg beaters have their uses, but they’re more for taking on light armor and/or infantry columns. Spookys are not JUST a platform for the delivery of massive amounts of firepower, they’re INTIMIDATING AS ALL HELL! There are a couple videos, I think on youtube, that show these monsters in action… And it’s freakishly scary to think about what it must be like on the sharp end.
Ever read Dante? Yeah. It’s something like THAT.
Comanches aren’t flown by our (or any) military. They never got past the development stage. The program was canceled in 2004 due to lack of funds.
To be perfectly fair, the Comanche program was ended because the compromises made to make them work, were producing a weapon only beauty queens in no survival gear could adequately fly. That reduced its export quality, which made each weapon more expensive and an alternate set of packages for existing air frames was embraced until 2018, when a different proposal might be pursued.
An argument for change of mission was also stressed in this particular and public discussion of the Comanche’s merits and flaws.
Correct–but you can’t put a Howitzer on a helicopter.
The Russians would argue with you. They have transport craft you can put(not mount) a howitzer(or 10) “on”, and they have gunships which mount self-propelled armament like rocket pods that can carry similarly lethal levels of explosive to a combat target. While I am still humbled by the devastating power of *-130% variants, I am more interested in plans to mount the “Vulcan” style weapons on drone air frames. When Israeli and Russian built Ka-50-2 are beating Apaches in field tests, I’d like to see bigger and better continue as an American tradition.
Plus I can’t really see them mounting 105mm howitzers on a chopper, they’ve been known to do that on gunships.
When you put as much firepower on a rotary wing as the AC-130 carries, then you’ll never get it off the ground.
Spectres and Spookies can remain on station much longer than a helicopter gunship, and carry a hell of a lot more firepower. There are no 105mm artillery rifle on whirlybirds.
except with a AC-130U, you can lay down a blanket of bullets and explosives and literally blow the enemie’s ass off
the Spook can stay higher and go farther than choppers.
Well said.. It doesn’t matter what you want to call it: “SPECTRE”, “SPOOKY”, “PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON”, “CIRCLE HERC”, “TRUCK KILLER” “TRAIL BLAZER”(-Ho Chi Minh Trail) and yes even A HUGE F***ING FLYING CASTLE OF DOOM”.. Whatever you want to call it, it has saved countless American and Joint forces lives. I was fortunate enough to maintain the U models and work with some of the sharpest and bravest crews and maintainers..
If you want know how it works – it acts in Transformers
Much more detailed, thank-you.
thanks for the service, kill em all, fight till the death, and dont let those f***ers win
too long, did not read.
lazy b1tch.
Artillery fires from multiple miles away. Spookys and Spectres fire from a quarter to a half mile away, up in the air.
TL DR
TL;DR
well join the military and you just might see more than a plane with guns…….dummy
After all the lame crap about which plane it is…
you either get it or you dont. You dont.
Does this make anyone think Final Fantasy?
Here is your man card, sir.
*passes steel plate that says “man card”*
Airship!
*takes man card away* A real man is a rock and a shelter. A castle fortress; a citadel in and of himself. He’s the one the “little guy”, the weak, the weakened and the innocent run to and rally around for support from guys like you.
A real man sits in the cockpit of that “Flying Castle of Doom” and renders anyone who kicks the little guy when he’s down, threatens his friends and family or oppresses his allies nonexistent in an instant of fire, steel and blood mist. Then, he sends in his friends to fill in the crater where they stood to make sure even their memory dies.
That is a man’s weapon. Maybe we’ll let you sit in the cockpit if you grow up and learn to turn manly violence to what little good it does… It is a hell of a lot of fun when the time does come to use it though.
*Bows in awe of taitano’s epic statement*
curses tatitano’s justification for state-sanctioned murder.
calls sarge a retard for not understanding the true awsomeness of the gunship.
*takes man card back due to manly job of infantry, and douchebaggery in your statement*. Violence solves a lot of problems. dont think so? go back about 55 years and ask the Japanese what they think. Violence is manly, it’s in our nature. It always has been and always will be. So get the sand out of your vag and man the hell up. A man takes the fight to the enemy in any form. me, i prefer to get up close and personal with the third world fundamentalist whose ass is about to die
Oh, I agree with you to an extent. I was talking about kicking the weak when they’re down as being unmanly. Those who do are our enemies and we will hunt them down wherever they are; even if “they” turn out to be us, in which case we have police, National Guard, etc.
Yes, many nations have made mistakes in this regard, including, and most visibly, the US, and some evil people have used it to mislead their followers to great atrocities, but we’re only human and should never stop trying to find and defend justice.
War is a great evil, and should be used judicially. And when you do use it, bring as much fire as you can as fast as you can, to make it as short as it can be. And aim true, lest you hit an innocent and become the oppressor you came to fight.
^WIN, taitano, WIN
Man, you have been right in everything youve said. I think its manlier to help up the weak guy and kick the sh*t outta whoever had kicked him when he was down.
I would agree, but I believe the “real men” actually on the ground taking the enemy fire and calling for gunship support when things get a little hairy would be justifiable in their disagreement of your definition of a “real man”.
I would go so far as to say that the guy flying a mile above the danger would be less of a “real man” than the grunt on the ground engaging in SAF (Small Arms Fire) with the enemy.
Awwwww. That’s adorable! Now go to bed. Tomorrow’s a school day.
naw, that’s your department there elmo. the rest of us big kids have partying to do
Ground pounders and airdales… Ain’t none of you ever felt the awesome responsibility of being a Regimental Mud Puppy. But, that’s okay… Y’all got in for the same reason, which is taking our enemies back to the Stone Age. Which, in the Middle East may be considered a societal upgrade.
More like someone’s very very bad day.
M102 105mm howitzer
L/60 40mm Bofors autocannon
GAU-12/U 25mm Equalizer 5 barrelled gatling gun.
Read: M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!!!
It can also carry Napalms
The US doesn’t use napalm anymore, from what I’ve heard.
Because we’ve been allowing those pukes at the UN tell us what to do, we don’t use firebombs, cluster bombs, or anything else that will actually get the job done, it sometimes seems. We’re reduced to wearing rainbow colors and hoping our enemies die of laughter.
No but our artillery still uses variable time fuses which allows the round to be detonated above impact, which allows for a greater spread of the shrapnel, Willie Pete (white phosphorus), and high explosives. Still very effective on columns or platoons.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/images/wp-gaza-2009-image01.jpg
11 Kill Streak
i hope the thousand is implied when you say 11
COD: MW2 reference. Bring down the pain.
I prefer the chopper gunner. Heh.
retard
Jerk.
Boo, MW2. You people think that because you play it and are halfway decent or better, you are a master at real combat, and that everything military MUST compare to MW2 or else it’s a piece of crap. Get over Your “perfect” war game and get to some REAL fighting.
This VDM was more likely made as a reference to MW2 more than anything tbf
it’s actually mainly little 10 year olds who think they would be the best soldier out there just from playing call of duty games where as i(and most other 15+ ppl)know that u wont get red jelly on ur face when u get shot and that getting shot in the foot point blank with a shotgun won’t kill you immediately or that you cant jump 20 feet with a knife and kill him before u get shot or any of the other crap perks on there(the most realistic blue perk[things made for aiming faster n stuff]is probably the one man army since its just a backpack with all your gear
The Angel of Death
But it can be a Guardian Angel too if it’s on your side.
Yeah. This is good.
Not so much funny, more a HOO-RAH testosterone rush – kinda thing that makes lots of us happy.
Guess you have to be in the military to get it.
It’s a giant armoured vehicle with gun turrets that FLIES. What more do you need to get?
I think he actually meant GETTING one. You’d have to be in the military to get one. I know, I’m disappointed as well that I can’t get one.
No armor on those, chief.
Or be a civilian caught under the tidal wave of mobs, insurgents, and constant ground warfare… But, since you’re on a computer, you’re probably NOT in the Middle East. However, there’s more than a few cits in the Sand Box that owe their lives to this monster, as well.
Spooky gunship, bring the rain!
Friendly skies?
Or a civillian who’s interested in military history.
Spectre…
no, its a AC-130U Spooky Gunship not an AC-130H Spectre Gunship
It was part of “project spectre”, but yes, some models are called “spectres”
Whenever you hear someone talk about the Specter, they tend to be a layman. The Spooky is the current (upgraded) version.
Partially correct Strifey. AC-130U is the latest model, but the AC-130H is still alive and well and kicking @$$ in places where bad people hide.
i could have sworn that spooky was the callsign
BlueGhost was at one time
I’m kind of glad we stopped calling it ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’
it was never called puff the magic dragon it was the AC-47 that served in vietnam
camy–idea same-same
And then I jizzed in my pants…
You know what this is if you:
A: Just have a general interest
B: Are in the military (any branch knows about this beast)
C: Ever Played Call of Duty Modern Warfare
D: Have ever been on the business end on one of these things, in which case you are no longer alive.
This plane can fire a Howitzer from the sky, despite the bad-ass-ness from this it is also sportin some serious other firepower.
B and C
Dude…another stickman crushed…just on top of it!
roflcopter
um… C-130′s are not that big.
But then I have never seen them with guns and crap on them.
I have only been sardined inside of them with a hundred officers and chiefs taking up my leg room.
All of you saying that thing is huge, haven’t looked at a single Russian Bomber.
TU-95, dropped the biggest nuke ever made (Czar Bomb)
or the Antonov 225, or the Antonov 124! Check on wikipedia and then check with your tiny plane America
That thing is small…
biggest nuke ever? so….it dropped Chernobyl?
Chernobyl wasn’t a bomb; it was a reactor plant that went super-critical and underwent catastrophic meltdown. It had nothing to do with weaponry of any kind.
Imagine.. an Antonov converted into a gunship w/ sh*t loads of weaponry onboard that looks like an array of cannons in a galleon
Nukes aren’t that great for close or danger close air support. They kinda wipe out everything in at least a kilometer radius.
…You know, just sayin’.
As far as I know, there are only two An-225s. Both are being used for civilian heavy lift contracts. An-124s have absolutely no combat roles whatsoever. Compared to that, I think the AC-130 compares pretty well as a combat aircraft.
AC-130U Compared to TU-95
AC-139U http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AC-130H_Spectre.jpg
Not including TU-95 pic because I’ll list what it does
New Russian Plane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Il-78MKI.jpeg
TU-95 Stats
Crew: 7 — 2 pilots, 1 tail gunner, 4 others
Length: (162 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: (167 ft 8 in)
Height: (39 ft 9 in)
Wing area: (3,330 ft²)
Empty weight:(198,000 lb)
Loaded weight:(376,200 lb)
Max takeoff weight:(414,500 lb)
Powerplant: 4× Kuznetsov NK-12MV turboprops, 11,000 kW (14,800 shp)[12] each
AC-130U Stats
Length: 97 ft 10 in (29.8 m)
Wingspan: 132 ft 7 in (40.4 m)
Height: 38 ft 6 in (11.7 m)
Wing area: 1745.5 ft² (162.2 m²)
Loaded weight: 122,400 lb (55,520 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 155,000 lb (69,750 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Allison T56-A-15 turboprops, 4,910 shp (3,700 kW) each
You see the AC-130U is so small compared to the TU-95.
Yes, but the U.S. plane stays in the air.
^WIN
Not only does the Herc, in ALL of it’s forms still stay in the air, but your Tupelov can’t tear the s**t out of a football field in one, three-second pass, and not touch the bleachers. Spooky for the WIN, comrade tardboy.
Yep – the 95 is big. Now – land it on a carrier and take off again.
AC-130 is more fuel efficient, more cost effective, and more accurate than the TU-95… You would have to compare the TU-95 to a B-52… Neither is good for close air support. The B-52 has longer range, a greater payload, a higher top speed, a higher service ceiling, AND is more accurate with a bomb. Not that accuracy counts with that many bombs.
Again, for it’s intended purpose, NOTHING currently in any country’s arsenal is better than an AC-130. Nothing.
The B-52 Stratofortress is only a tiny bit bigger then the TU-95 in only some sections.
You see we have the Superior large plane.
C’mon buddy. It’s not the size of your bomber but how you use it.
Win.
Heh… Compare payload, maximum altitude, accuracy, range, avionics, defensive systems, and speed. B-52 > TU-95 in ALL respects.
Sorry, but someone lied to you.
Ive had that exact same though the first time I saw this monster.
Someone want to remind ‘HA!’ that the cold war is actually over?
Hey Ha!,
You lost the Cold War.
Love,
Strife26
Is that the same type of plane that was in Transformers, in the desert scene when the American troops are trying to fight Scorpinok? The air support that just starts blasting the snot out of him?
They gave it a “Spooky” callsign in the movie, but it was actually an H-model Spectre. I hate politics.
Stratofortess – for when you absolutely, positively need to level the entire neighborhood
AC-130U is called Spooky, AC-130H is Spectre just to clear that up either way, THEY KICK ASS! and HA! sure, the Ant-225 is the biggest airplane but the US has the B-2 Spirit, 2 billion dollars of rapage built into each one.
Howitzer… Flying… Flying Howitzers, mounted with bombs, cannons, missiles and other death. The only thing worse bringing terror from the skies are the BUFFs. Now… If the Ruskies did something like this to the Antonovs… DAMN!
imagine this tiny ukrainian – http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/An-225_Mriya.jpg/800px-An-225_Mriya.jpg with a bunch of 105mm )
spookier? )
…wait a minute…that’s not Puff the Magic Dragon! Spooky is a Douglas AC-47 =/ http://www.ask.com/wiki/AC-47_Spooky
http://www.simhq.com/_air9/air_275f.html
and here, the AC-130 is know as “Spectre”, so The Movie Star was correct, and you got owned =D
Although I still have to say, the Spectre is still epic
Actualy, there have been at least six variants of the AC-130 line of gunships. AC-130A Project Gunship II was the pathfinder/prototype variant, athough it should be noted that despite being a work-in-progrees, it was never the less used operationaly.
(1)AC-130A “Surprise Package” was the follow-up variant to Project “Gunship II” (Why they retained the “A” modifier to the designation is beyond me).
(2)AC-130A Pave Pronto was a re-configuration of the “Surprise Package” variant, and was also known by the nickname “Thor”
(3)AC-130E Pave Specter was the next major variant, with (4)AC-130E Pave Aegis being a re-configuration of the “Pave Specter” variant.
(5)AC-130H Spectre was the next variant, with two configurations operational under that designation.
(6)AC-130U Spooky II is the most recent publicly acknowledged variant.
(?)AC-130U+4 “Can Cell” is a variant that was officially canceled, but is rumored to be covertly operational.
Um, you do realize that no force commander would ever authorize a AC-130 unit to deploy if there was the slightest chance that enemy fighters would have a shot at taking one down, don’t you?
In the real world, people who think their planes are “beast mode” tend to get their asses shot down. The air force doesn’t hire cowboys and idiots to be pilots: Instead, they reserve the glorious positions of floor-sweeper and and bathroom-cleaner to that kind of person.
^^WIN!
Amen, Brochacho!
The military is way ahead of you, its called air superiority. We first gain air dominance so we can perform air operations at will without risk of losing aircraft.
And have you ever heard of the Iraqi Air Force? Yeah the first thing we did when we went to Iraq was destroy it.
Next time you should really learn military strategy before saying something like that
That is exactly what Sarge was saying, you tard.
He said that before any commander sent a ground attack plane into enemy territory, they would be certain that it was not going to encounter any fighters. Air Superiority.
and that’s why I owned areas in Vietnam with the AC-130, because I took my chances
Exactly. War is risky business, but our esteemed armed forces know that, and take the risk anyway.
That’s why they’re heroes.
Mordhaus?
AC-130 is a Spectre an AC-47 is a Spooky
The main gun does not “make it hold still in mid air”.
The main gun of the more recent gun ships is a 105mm howitzer which is something like a 32 lb shell (I’m a combat veteran and an artillery officer in a 155 mm howitzer battery which shoots a 98 lb bullet). I’d bet that they’re using a proximity fuse that goes off at the optimal burst height. When that happens, the casing rips apart in a storm of metal pieces that shreds things below it.
It has all weapons on one side so it can circle and concentrate firepower. Why are all the weapons on the port side? – don’t know.
The 130 is not a large aircraft – it’s a very robust airframe, easy to repair, and is able to take off and land on runways that many other aircraft could not handle. It was the better than a 141 to jump from and we could airdrop our pack howitzers from them, too.
Back to your statement – when you get hit by a 105 round, it doesn’t hurt at all. Everything goes dark. As someone else mentioned, about all that’s left is a red stain.
thoughtbeforespeech–excellent name. too bad more people don’t think so.
The guns are on the left because the aircraft commander sits in the left seat. Quirk of history. He’s the one watching the target out the window. Prox rounds are available, and certainly a crowd pleaser (at least for one half of the crowd).
GrammarNazi–Spooky was the AC-47, also called Puff in Viet Nam. The name was reactivated when the U-model was christened. Think Thunderbolt II (A-10, aka Warthog), without the II.
weapons are on port side because it is easier to circle left for the pilot since they are in the left hand seat in the cockpit.
thoughtbeforespeech – Very accurate. Very.
Just one detail. Any 105mm available for a howie on the ground is available for this gun. Fire sent depends on fire mission called for. Troops in the open? Likely to get the Proximity frag shell you referred to. Dug in troops or Armor? More likely to get HE or HEAT on contact detonation… They have flares, smoke, etc etc too. Just like your 155mm unit did on the ground.
But that’s all Air Force stuff.
We just needed them to drive us to work!
LMAO!
Took a date to a dinner where they showed some gun camera film of a little late 80′s work (don’t remember if it was the U or H) in Central America – didn’t get a second date, but gained appreciation for the phrase:
“You can run, but you’ll only die tired.”
very true statement!
if you can get your hands on any information at all, or if you get The Military Channel … seek out some more info!!!
Late 80′s would have been the H.
lol
I love the names that soldiers come up with to call various hardware. “BUFF” just made me lol.
Big, Ugly Fat Fellow, to civilians who are concerned with not offending.
Or you can use the last “F” for something else, if you prefer.
Oh, look. It’s an artillery company with wings.
Hoo-Rah Air Force.
Bring the thunder! Hoo-ah!
you all may love this bird and her abilities, and you may not, but if you wanna learn what the US Air Force has up its sleeve, you need to learn more about the Global Hawk … long range targeting systems and such will BLOW YOUR MIND!
and to think, the AC-130 was the first to put a big honkin’ cannon in a plane. well, that is, until the USAF put a FREEKIN’ LASER out the front of a 747!!! uh-huh, the laser fills the ENTIRE aircraft and is used to knock ICBMs outta the sky … it’s been tested … it works … however, ask your local Congressman why it’s been shelved … dopes in DC is all i can say …
didn’t that thing make an appearance in days of ruin as one of the doomsday devices?
for those of you who want the simplified version of what the hell this thing is without reading the longer explinations:
think of the plane that blasted scorponok’s tail off in the desert in the TRANSFORMERS movie (NOT the animated ones)
Epps: Spooky-32 use 1-oh-5 shells. Bring the rain!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMNhleBf0Y the scene’s at 4:17
Yeah and that’s only part of its power…the real damage comes from the 40mm Bofors and the 25mm gatling as they would be used on most strafing runs for their higher rates of fire, but the Big Boy will probably always be the real crowd pleaser.
As a former USMC 155mm artilleryman I’m still always going to be in favor of the Hellfire and Damnation that comes with the BFG.
bears face in the nose?
Now, here’s the cool part: The Herc, the C-130 that the Spectre/Spooky is based off of, is the SECOND OLDEST CONTINUALLY SERVING COMBAT AIRFRAME. In. The. World! So, yeah, Tupelovs and Anatovs may be bigger, but so WHAT? We still last longer! And, ask any woman, staying power beats size any day!
OOOOrah gunny, let them know that sh*t. we should have this “Gunship” flying the border between Mexico and the US.
yea well we r at it y dont i take a nuke 2 ur house and 2 every other person that shares ur point of view, and I’d call that a good day
See I would agree with a motion sensor equipped series of gatlings mounted on a wall, one every 25 meters or so, with overlapping fields of fire. Bringing artillery into the equation would just leave giant craters for them to hide in between passes. But I think we should build it on both our northern and southern borders. We already have too many Canadian immigrants too.
Screw it, just break out a bunch of ED-209s and make them our new Border Patrol. You have 10 seconds to comply!
Wow, first thing my eyes noticed was a stickman doing the spilt XD
An AC-130 helped out the British in Iraq a couple of years ago. A Sniper platoon was trapped in a complex and this big thing came into view and owned the enemy hardcore.
One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine…
- From a Soviet Junior Lt’s Notebook
God
You know he hates you when you see this f***ing thing coming to kill you.
haha thats a Spectre not a spooky
That’s a Spooky, not a Spectre.
When it turns on it’s side, it smells like victory.
anyone else see the stickman?
Ugh… That’s definitely not a stickman lol Those markings are to help the boom operator on a tanker guide the refueling boom into place…
when you can mount every size weapon from a belt-fed machine gun to a 105MM Howitzer cannon inside a plane; then cover an area the size of an American football field with 1 round per square inch; all while flying overhead… THAT”S the beauty of firepower… not to be used during peace, but VERY USEFUL when peace is elsewhere!
Support The Troops, even if you disagree with the politics.
Arvy — agree with your last line WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
Spooky Pilot — “Give us 5 minutes; we’ll level Disneyland.”
ENEMY AC130 ABOVE!
Then you are fu<ked! Have a nice….
yeah AC130s rape everything in its path.
And if you’re going to talk about it don’t mention vietnam, you lost that war.
Define lost please?
Not saying that we won, or that there even WAS a “winner” for that matter, but I don’t exactly see us as the loser either.
Imagne A Terriorist
Omg BILL ITS A AC130
no im still 4 kills away
No I mean its right F***ing there
****
Two terriorst Talking
Bill: Hey whats that Jim
Jim: its a ac130
Bill: Should we worry?
Jim:nah i got a rpg if this work like MW2 then we good
AC130: BOOM
Some kids play Call of Duty too much…
It’s funny this guy has a lot of names, but my favorite was it used to called BUFF. It is an acronym for Big Ugly Fat F***
Which is actually a name for a B-52 Stratofortress, not a C-130 in any of it’s variants.
Yup. There is only one Vulcan, which makes it the 25mm on an AC-130U, and not the twin 20mm’s on an AC-130H.
From Wikipedia: (Yes, I know it’s Wikipedia, but Jane’s Defense agrees…)
“The AC-130H “Spectre” is armed with two 20 mm M61 Vulcan cannons, one Bofors 40mm autocannon, and one 105 mm M102 cannon. The AC-130U “Spooky” has a single 25 mm GAU-12 Equalizer in place of the Spectre’s twin 20 mm cannons.”
That reply was actually aimed at the post below, by “thisismylamenick”
How on earth it got posted ABOVE his post, and not as a reply, or even in chronological order, I have no idea. I think I broke the internet.
hmph.. so much talk for an AC-130.. when I see one in CODMW2, I getmy Stinger ready.. That way, it won’t last 5 seconds in battle.. Hell yeah.
A Stinger? Really??? Good thing the real world isn’t anything like CoD.
Lamer.
The AC-130H Spectre armament does not include the 25 mm GAU-12/U Equalizer Gatling gun, which makes it a Spooky
So do I.