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Mobile airpower

"The enemy dies relaxed," observed a Lockheed Martin manager.

Nice video but they failed to replace the Bofors gun so it's not really up to date.

Can't believe the US would make such a poor mistake integrating a new weapon but I guess it looked good on paper.

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In 2007, the Air Force modified four AC-130U gunships to use as test platforms for the Bushmasters. However, Air Force Special Operations Command has canceled its plans to install 30 mm Bushmaster cannons on its fleet of AC-130Us and has since removed the guns and re-installed their original 40 mm cannons, returning these planes to combat duties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC-130

Officials and gunship crews are not sure why the weapon will not shoot straight. Some possible reasons are that the 30 mm rounds are too small to fly straight and accurate over long distances, after all, the cannon was never intended to shoot thousands of feet up in the air. Another possibility accounting for the weapons inaccuracy is the weapons mountings are not stiff enough for the rapid-fire chain guns, according to Heithold.

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/

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The first single engine GE F414 jet:

Quote: Can't believe the US would make such a poor mistake integrating a new weapon but I guess it looked good on paper.

That's what testing is for, hence the "testing platforms".




"Korea has not been the only battle ground since the end of the Second World War. Men have fought and died in Malaya, in Greece, in the Philippines, in Algeria and Cuba, and Cyprus and almost continuously on the Indo-Chinese Peninsula. No nuclear weapons have been fired. No massive nuclear retaliation has been considered appropriate. This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin--war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It is a form of warfare uniquely adapted to what has been strangely called 'wars of liberation,' to undermine the efforts of new and poor countries to maintain the freedom that they have finally achieved. It preys on economic unrest and ethnic conflicts. It requires in those situations where we must counter it, and these are the kinds of challenges that will be before us in the next decade if freedom is to be saved, a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly different kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind of military training."-President Kennedy's Address at Graduation Exercises of the U.S. Military Academy, 1962
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"The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I do rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of these men are the enemies of your enemies. And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss - the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year - sometimes it's embarrassing to have his fingerprints on the guns. Sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying. So. You call me evil, but unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil."-Yuri Orlov, Lord of War
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"Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947. More commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars."-Yuri Orlov, Lord of War
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i played call of duty 4 and was impressed with AC130 spectre fire power.... its enough to take out whole battalion of force from air... what an impressive machine...
is there any other country in the world which has airborne artillary.. ?