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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:16:54 PM EDT

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Do any other countries have/had a plane set up for the same role?

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The C-47 version was obviosly the original. Then the AC-119 held on in Viet Nam. But Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton had some guys named Col. Ron Terry and Col Jim Krause who were instrumental in getting the platform pulled together. Original one had Simger-Kearfott INS with regular gyros for navigation and target marking. They could mark a target, fly for an hour and come back and fire without powering up sensors, in 1970. Pretty amazing stuff. Heroes.

Posted: 6/28/2018 11:20:21 PM EDT

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My uncle was a 130 pilot. When I was about 15, I got to watch a firepower demonstration. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

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The coolest thing to me, is that upon launch... That's a lot of hate.

We're still upgrading these guys.

New hate will be way more effective.

I realize a lot of these birds get deducted to SF operations or defensive operations. Not things that will make the papers.

But they're out there. They're being used, and they are wrecking fucking shop

Posted: 6/28/2018 11:20:23 PM EDT

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MC-27J Praetorian is the only one I know of. I don't think it's in operation yet.

https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/newsitalys-mc-27j-aircraft-completes-first-phase-of-ground-and-flight-testing-4319964/

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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:23:14 PM EDT

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I get a raging freedom boner when I think of gunships.

It becomes a diamond cutter when I imagine what a hypothetical AC-17 gunship, built on a C-17, might be capable of if outfitted by someone who is adequately deranged.

I want to see that made!

Boeing's concept of the 747 based Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft makes me positively light headed.

Now expand on that concept with plenty of air-to-air missile capability for various offensive and defensive requirements, plus an airborne version of the CIWS point defense system, and things get VERY interesting.

Posted: 6/28/2018 11:31:15 PM EDT

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The left handed middle finger of death!

Posted: 6/28/2018 11:39:49 PM EDT

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We should make an AC5.

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The c5 can do something far more destructive.

C-5 Galaxy Minuteman ICBM Drop Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96A0wb1Ov9k

Posted: 6/28/2018 11:46:02 PM EDT

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Subscribed so I can read when I get a chance, OP.

Posted: 6/28/2018 11:52:02 PM EDT

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I sleep well at night with the sounds of Spectre night gunnery in the background.

The sounds of FREEEEDOMMMMMM!

Posted: 6/28/2018 11:54:07 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/29/2018 12:13:18 AM EDT

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I miss nose art...

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I liked this one.lol

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Posted: 6/29/2018 12:21:36 AM EDT

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Colombia has some ancient airframes doing gunship things.

Posted: 6/29/2018 12:24:51 AM EDT

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Puff The Magic Dragon,
Bird of days long gone.
Came to fly in the evening skies
In the land called Vietnam.

Posted: 6/29/2018 12:33:03 AM EDT

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No doubt. The in laws live near Hurlburt Field and we got out on the boat in the sound adjacent to the strip and watch them do touch and go landings right above us. And at night you can hear them flying over low and the range is not far because the ground shakes in Fort Walton when they are obviously dropping ordnance.

Posted: 6/29/2018 12:35:26 AM EDT

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I like this thread.

Posted: 6/29/2018 12:46:27 AM EDT

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Seems we may have run into each other back then. Do you remember how many times they spotted two suspicious heat signatures just inside the wire?

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They're especially awesome when you're the assistant brigade fire support NCO, in charge of the night shift, at Kandahar Airfield in March 2002 and they're flying overhead, providing cover for the base because you're under constant threat of rocket attack and the vast majority of your organic fire support assets are up in the Shah-I-Kot Valley for Operation Anaconda.

Seems we may have run into each other back then. Do you remember how many times they spotted two suspicious heat signatures just inside the wire?

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I remember walking out of my tent one night, en route to the BDE TOC, and seeing the QRF drive past me in a rush. When I got to the TOC, I asked WTF was going on. I was told the AC-130 had spotted a couple of odd heat signatures down by the ammo dump and QRF went to investigate. It turned out to be the dude on guard duty had convinced his girlfriend that they could bump uglies during his shift and nobody would catch them. Well, someone caught them. As I understood it, there was an interesting video from the Spectre being passed around Camp Doha.

Posted: 6/29/2018 12:59:34 AM EDT

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@Twitchy

I remember walking out of my tent one night, en route to the BDE TOC, and seeing the QRF drive past me in a rush. When I got to the TOC, I asked WTF was going on. I was told the AC-130 had spotted a couple of odd heat signatures down by the ammo dump and QRF went to investigate. It turned out to be the dude on guard duty had convinced his girlfriend that they could bump uglies during his shift and nobody would catch them. Well, someone caught them. As I understood it, there was an interesting video from the Spectre being passed around Camp Doha.

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Posted: 6/29/2018 6:56:59 AM EDT

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I liked this one.lol

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Awesome.

Posted: 6/29/2018 6:57:04 AM EDT

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We want to put lasers on them by 2020 too.

What a cool plane.

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One of my favorite planes. It's huge and kicks asses.

Posted: 6/29/2018 11:36:51 AM EDT

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I was just looking at the Jordanian Air Force's wiki page and found this. I had no idea that there was an AC-235 too

SOFEX 2014 ATK AC-235 Light Gunship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyNfkdWzqA0

Posted: 6/29/2018 1:16:41 PM EDT

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I still want to know if the Greyhound could haul enough side-mounted guns to make the AC-2 Hellhound carrier-borne gunship viable.

The C-2 is getting pushed out of the COD mission by V-22 anyway, isn’t it?

SOCOM CAS and vessel-in-port defense seems a good mission for a Mini-Specter.

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just looked this up... what a neat plane/capability to have on a carrier... do they still manufacture these things?