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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:27:05 AM EDT
We want to put lasers on them by 2020 too. 
What a cool plane. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:28:33 AM EDT
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I fully endorse this message.
I love my job. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:28:44 AM EDT
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Awesome plane!!!!
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:29:31 AM EDT
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C-130's, A-10's, and CH-53's are my favorite flying platforms!
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:29:51 AM EDT
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Waaaaayyy better platform than that POS CV-22.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:31:00 AM EDT
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They are cool until you are sitting on the run way in full gear while the plane has a hydraulic leak...
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:31:55 AM EDT
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They are cool until you are sitting on the run way in full gear while the plane has a hydraulic leak... 
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:32:41 AM EDT
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I fully endorse this message. I love my job. You guys still use the Bofurs or did they switch them out already? |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:37:52 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:41:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:42:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:44:04 AM EDT
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The U model still uses it, but they are retiring. The W and J model have gone to 30 and 105mm and bombs and missiles.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:48:25 AM EDT
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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.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 9:55:12 AM EDT
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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. 
Whether a base or SF guys out in a mission, you gotta feel pretty damn well covered with one of those guys up there. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:29:21 AM EDT
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https://78.media.tumblr.com/c80cddcbdacb0b078bca8b36bb750757/tumblr_p6d80eaAN81rn8k76o1_400.gif https://media0.giphy.com/media/GRs3sk3C490kM/giphy-downsized-large.gif We want to put lasers on them by 2020 too.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:34:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was hoping we'd get a guy who worked with them! You guys still use the Bofurs or did they switch them out already? Depends on the model. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:37:16 AM EDT
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Serious fanboy....serious.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:37:45 AM EDT
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I do. Depends on the model. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: I was hoping we'd get a guy who worked with them! You guys still use the Bofurs or did they switch them out already? Depends on the model. Is there any truth to that? |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:38:03 AM 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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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:38:48 AM EDT
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I've seen one or two
Playing the COD AC130 level on the screens while testing out a Dragon Spear operator console was pretty much the best thing ever for us non sky-gods. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:43:51 AM EDT
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Oh, they’re popular. Looking at our overall rounds counts (expended) overseas, there may be some truth to that. I don’t have visibilty to all expenditures per platform so I can’t say for sure. It’s a big, lumbering, lethal bird.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:43:53 AM EDT
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The U model still uses it, but they are retiring. The W and J model have gone to 30 and 105mm and bombs and missiles. 
Just 1 cannon now? |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:51:10 AM EDT
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Oh, they’re popular. Looking at our overall rounds counts (expended) overseas, there may be some truth to that. I don’t have visibilty to all expenditures per platform so I can’t say for sure. It’s a big, lumbering, lethal bird. 
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:14:37 AM EDT
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AC130s are great These are beautiful though https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/263816/4A77379B-43D6-40F6-816C-F5633F9BB410-589789.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/263816/3FE216ED-C2D7-4496-9C9F-E963AF2F18AF-589790.JPG 
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:25:42 AM EDT
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I fully endorse this message. I love my job.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:28:50 AM EDT
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They need a giant mesh brass catcher...
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:29:22 AM EDT
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Daughter and I watched a two ship sortie doing target practice yesterday afternoon. We're close enough we can smell the burnt powder. We live on the county line between Santa Rosa and Okaloosa. Love it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I fully endorse this message. I love my job. 
Does that ever happen on missions? Where for some reason they just want even more ridiculous amounts of firepower? |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:30:34 AM EDT
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Better than taking off in one with a Hydro leak. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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They are cool until you are sitting on the run way in full gear while the plane has a hydraulic leak... |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:55:11 AM EDT
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It's cool but I'd prefer an AC Cobra
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Posted: 6/28/2018 12:12:14 PM EDT
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Quoted:
https://78.media.tumblr.com/c80cddcbdacb0b078bca8b36bb750757/tumblr_p6d80eaAN81rn8k76o1_400.gif https://media0.giphy.com/media/GRs3sk3C490kM/giphy-downsized-large.gif We want to put lasers on them by 2020 too.
What a cool plane. Yes they are!
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Posted: 6/28/2018 12:15:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 2x AC130s at the same time?
Does that ever happen on missions? Where for some reason they just want even more ridiculous amounts of firepower? |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 12:19:35 PM EDT
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It sure does, we've had two Ws overhead multiple ops, along with an U and a W on other ops. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: 2x AC130s at the same time?
Does that ever happen on missions? Where for some reason they just want even more ridiculous amounts of firepower?
That's so much fuck you in the air. 
Man, I'd pay to see two AC130s laying down pain at the same time. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 12:19:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I did not know this til I saw the pic https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PQJr1stc--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ywi1pin5syukxy6zynq1.jpg Just 1 cannon now? https://www.flickr.com/photos/ashleywallacetd/33881685375 |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 12:28:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm eating lunch and started laughing out loud by myself.
That's so much fuck you in the air.
Man, I'd pay to see two AC130s laying down pain at the same time. Wish we had video of it! |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:06:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 2x AC130s at the same time?
Does that ever happen on missions? Where for some reason they just want even more ridiculous amounts of firepower? |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:16:20 PM EDT
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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. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:18:00 PM EDT
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OP isn’t wrong
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:28:19 PM EDT
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It does. One of my more bitter sweet shoots was when we rolled in overtop of our other crew mid shoot. They were hitting two targets and we got cleared on two more. The situation on the ground didn’t afford the first crew a chance to refuel so we launched to back fill them and showed up and had rounds down within the first orbit. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: 2x AC130s at the same time?
Does that ever happen on missions? Where for some reason they just want even more ridiculous amounts of firepower? 
I'm going to take a wild guess and say things worked out for the guys on the ground. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:29:15 PM EDT
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I have been lucky enough to watch them do some work while deployed. It’s rather awe inspiring to say the least.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:44:46 PM EDT
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AC130s are great These are beautiful though https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/263816/4A77379B-43D6-40F6-816C-F5633F9BB410-589789.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/263816/3FE216ED-C2D7-4496-9C9F-E963AF2F18AF-589790.JPG |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:45:32 PM EDT
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Puff The Magic Dragon. I think I remember reading one time that former Viet Cong said nothing scared them more than those damn things. I'd hate to be on the receiving end.
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:53:28 PM EDT
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I have been lucky enough to watch them do some work while deployed. It’s rather awe inspiring to say the least. You have to have airspace dominance. You can't just fly a lumbering death machine without owning the sky. But if you do own the sky, you have at your disposal a giant ordnance machine which can dump a variety of stuff on things America hates. Fucking awesome plane that no other country can deploy. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:54:56 PM EDT
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Daughter and I watched a two ship sortie doing target practice yesterday afternoon. We're close enough we can smell the burnt powder. We live on the county line between Santa Rosa and Okaloosa. Love it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I fully endorse this message. I love my job. With the 75th training nearby and a MOAB test a few years ago while we were visiting. Damn cool. No one minds the night runs. Cuz Murica. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:56:55 PM EDT
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I do. Depends on the model. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: I was hoping we'd get a guy who worked with them! You guys still use the Bofurs or did they switch them out already? Depends on the model. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 10:59:37 PM EDT
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I hear them shooting all the time. Hardly notice it until family comes in town and asks what the noise is
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:00:05 PM EDT
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Better than taking off in one with a Hydro leak. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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They are cool until you are sitting on the run way in full gear while the plane has a hydraulic leak... |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:02:25 PM EDT
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When TI was installing FLIR on them in the 1969 and after, they only had 7.62 and 20mm guns. Adding the Bofors was a big deal. Lot more standoff range. Then when they added the 105mm on the Surprise Package, IIRC, they loved that standoff range. Before that those guys were in the dirt. Brave airmen. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quoted: I was hoping we'd get a guy who worked with them! You guys still use the Bofurs or did they switch them out already? Depends on the model. When videos of simply loading your weapons are sexy, you got a winner.
What a unique, cool plane. |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:06:46 PM EDT
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Do any other countries have/had a plane set up for the same role?
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:09:03 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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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:12:39 PM EDT
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AC130s are great These are beautiful though https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/263816/4A77379B-43D6-40F6-816C-F5633F9BB410-589789.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/263816/3FE216ED-C2D7-4496-9C9F-E963AF2F18AF-589790.JPG |
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Posted: 6/28/2018 11:15:37 PM EDT
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I miss nose art...
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