March 05, 2006

SPOOKY HAS A HOME IN IRAQ

A grunt's best friend: the AC-130- featuring miniguns, 20mm cannons, and a 105mm howitzer, courtesy of the Air Force. Back in the day when I was a lieutenant, the AC-130 was known as Spectre and it looked like something out of science fiction when it opened up on a target at night.

Posted by LMC at March 5, 2006 09:19 PM | TrackBack
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I never saw a SPECTRE in action, live (I've seen footage), but I've seen the miniguns that they use do a live fire exercise, and they are hellish.

Best close air support stuff I saw when I was in was an A-10 strike on a range at Benning. Pretty impressive. I loved the Warthog.

Posted by: The Colossus at March 6, 2006 10:32 AM