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2008-06-06 Iraq

Apache-matic, it slices, it dices, it makes mounds and mounds of Jihadi-slaw

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-06 03:53|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Damn nice shooting guys. Well done.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-06-06 09:12|| 2008-06-06 09:12|| Front Page Top

#2 30mm for one person? Isn't that a bit of overkill? (Not that there is anything wrong with that.)

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-06 11:51|| 2008-06-06 11:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there any way they could get a tank main gun up into the air like that?

Posted by gorb 2008-06-06 12:00|| 2008-06-06 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 That is some EXCELLENT FLIR imagery. You can actually see the jerk's AK-47 being carried in his right hand.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-06-06 12:15|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-06 12:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Fireworks and a happy ending!

What's not to love? :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-06 13:47|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-06-06 13:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Gorb__

I think I read that the Spectre has a 105mm cannon along with 20mm & 40mm guns. Is that close enough?

Posted by Ularong Peacock4279 2008-06-06 13:48|| 2008-06-06 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Gorb, you basically have that with the arty on an AC-130

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-06 13:49|| 2008-06-06 13:49|| Front Page Top

#8 This is not a recommendation for clemency, but I do wonder what the ROE is for the pilots if the target hears the rotors and decides to throw his weapon down and stand there in the dark with his hands up?

Posted by Chomotch the Really Smart6908 2008-06-06 13:50|| 2008-06-06 13:50|| Front Page Top

#9 The 105 is supposed to be replaced by a 120mm mortar/gun.

Posted by ed 2008-06-06 13:57|| 2008-06-06 13:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Beauty

Comes in many forms.

And the nightime termination of this jihadist is a beautiful answer to their terrorist practices including sawing off the pitiful heads of bound up living prisoners.

thanks GolfBravoUSMC..

ed The 105 is supposed to be replaced by a 120mm mortar/gun.

AC-130U Spooky

Continuing the distinguished combat history of side-firing AC-130 gunships, the new AC-130U Spectre gunship was fielded as a replacement for the AC-130A aircraft and to supplement the AC-130H gunship fleet.

Its mission is to support conventional and joint special operations forces any time, any place. The AC-130U Gunship program initially consisted of 13 [later 17] new Lockheed C-130H airframes, modified by Boeing, which assumed responsibility for the AC-130U contract when it merged with the Rockwell Corporation, the original contractor on the program.

The modifications allow the aircraft to perform the full range of special operations and conventional gunships missions. It provides surgical firepower, night and adverse weather operations, and extended loiter time on target in Special Operations Forces (SOF) and conventional roles.

The AC-130U is named for the AC-47D and has the "Spooky" nickname rather than the "Spectre" nickname used by all other AC-130 gunships.

The AC-130U was armed with a 25mm Gatling-gun (capable of firing 1800 rounds per minute), a single-barrel, rapid-fire 40mm Bofors cannon, and a 105mm Howitzer. The AC-130U replaced the two 20mm cannon used on the AC-130H with one trainable 25mm cannon while retaining the other weapons. The AC-130U employs the latest technologies and can attack two targets simultaneously.

The U-model gunship is one of the most complex aircraft weapon systems in the world today.....

Pimp My Gunship Get Smart: the 120mm Smooth Bore

The basic idea is to upgrade from dumb, short-range munitions to smart long-range ones. Out goes the 105-mm howitzer in favor of a 120mm smoothbore youd call it a mortar, except that a downward-firing mortar is weird...

Posted by RD">RD 2008-06-06 15:11|| 2008-06-06 15:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Most impressive. Great shooting. No wonder they want us out of Iraq -- our guys are battle hardened and ready to turn bad guys into goo anywhere anytime.

Posted by regular joe 2008-06-06 15:25|| 2008-06-06 15:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Has anyone else noticed how callous we have become in 7 years of war: The snarky celebrations when persons of jihad are hideously killed, ripped apart, by our taxpayer-funded death machine, the sudden brutal extinction of life, the pain, the loss of dreams and personalities? Doesn't the hooting, joyous celebration of death and dismemberment bother any of you?

Nah, me neither.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-06-06 22:12|| 2008-06-06 22:12|| Front Page Top

#13 I think I read that the Spectre has a 105mm cannon along with 20mm & 40mm guns. Is that close enough?

I guess it will have to do until they can get the 120 up and running. I suppose after they do that they can work on the full-auto thing . . . . >:-}

Posted by gorb 2008-06-06 22:37|| 2008-06-06 22:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Doesn't the hooting, joyous celebration of death and dismemberment bother any of you?

Rather than just cry into my pillow at night, I justify it by thinking about all the pre-teens who don't get barbequed alive by dead jihadis and presented to their parents with an apple in their mouth at dinnertime as a warning to the village not to get in the way of their activities.

Those ba$+ards can't die fast or horrible enough to make me happy.

Posted by gorb 2008-06-06 22:43|| 2008-06-06 22:43|| Front Page Top

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