This Modified Transport Plane May Be The Deadliest Weapons Platform On The Planet

[xchrom]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ac-130-spectre-gunship-owns-night-with-close-air-support-2013-2?op=1

The AC-130 gunship is just a modified C-130 cargo plane, but there is no more devastating array of firepower supporting troops on the ground, anywhere in the world.

The 130 started as a spectacular success in 1967 over Vietnam destroying around 10,000 enemy ground vehicles and devastating enemy troops.

It's packed with punishing ordnance and renowned for its ability to fly in any conditions, at all times of day, for extended periods of time.


But a look at the left side of the aircraft shows that this is no transport plane.


It's got very big guns like this 20mm Vulcan cannon which is capable of firing over 6,000 rounds per minute.


And the guns get bigger: Here's the 40mm Bofors autocannon.

[Bonobo]

1. I'm sick of mofos that say America doesn't do anything right.

Look at that shit! You know how many fuckin' terrorists you could blow away with those babies!!!

[xchrom]

2. !

[wandy]

3. Not something you want to be on the wrong side of...

Dedicated to all those willing to stop gubbment tear-any with a pea shooter.

[Berlum]

4. "Azrael, Angel of Death" WTF? Fundies running a Tribulation Death Squad, Hi-Tech Style?

Some soul-ugly shit going down here on a Biblical Scale.

From Wikipedia:
"Azrael (angel of death) is the archangel of death. It is an English form of the Arabic name Azra'il or Azra'eil (عزرایل , the name traditionally attributed to the angel of death in Islam and some Hebrew lore. The Qur'an never uses this name, referring instead to Malaikat al-Maut (which translates directly as angels of death; not one angel)...It is also spelled Izrail, Izrael, Azrail, Ezraeil, Azraille, or Ozryel.

[Recursion]

5. A character in Sandman, IIRC

Also in the Smurfs.

Pilots name their planes for idiosyncratic reasons.

[Oldenuff]

6. What?

I thought this would be a poster for Assault Weapons Ban everybody seems to be pushing for.This type of gun control I would support.

Think of the money we could save if we weren't throwing our weight around in virtually every corner of the world.