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harvrdguy

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25. July 2008 @ 19:14

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Hah, you guys are funny. Nice pic Sam - they got revenge on ya, did they? Wow Dinc - glue him back in hell?? Poor Sam :P Yeah I've seen a bunch of those videos - the videos are really fun. I like the big Russian guy, the heavy, with the gattling gun that costs $400,000 to fire for 20 seconds: "Some people think they are smarter than me." "Maybe so, maybe so." "But I have not met guy who can outsmart bullet" "HahaHAHAHAHAHA!" Yeah I'm gonna get it!

Sam, and Abuzar and all you guys whom I misinformed, regarding the AC-130 Spectre. They're not moving slower than 300 mph. Well, MAYBE the plane can go a little slower than that - that's maximum velocity and cruising velocity might be less. But that's not the point, and here's why: they're not firing straight down from the bottom of the plane like I had assumed.

They're not shooting from the bottom of the plane looking down, they're shooting from the side of the plane, which is tipped over in a turn. Look at the bottom picture here, and my comments in red. I googled, and COD4 is absolutely authentic!! Wow!!

I did a little bit of reading - in VietNam they hunted supply trucks with these things, which are also known as the Hercules Spector. At that time they didn't have the TV cameras they have now. But they DID have electronic sensors which could pick up the truck engine electronic static through the foliage from as high as 8000 feet over the jungle. (A couple of planes were shot down with AA (anti-aircraft) fire from that altitude.)

Now look at an actual current video from the war zone.

How to pacify terrorists from an AC-130 flying gunship

That's exactly like COD4 - Death from Above. Absolutely realistic - way to go Infinity Ward - sorry I doubted you guys for a minute :)

Notice the delay from when they shoot to when you get the visual of the shots, about a 2 second delay. The bullets are going about 1000 mph I think (from memory correct me if anybody really knows the exact speed) which is about 1500 feet per second, which puts the planes a lot closer to the target, about 3000 feet, probably similar to how it is in COD4. The altitude of the plane would depend on how tight of a turn it is executing. In the picture, I'm guessing roughly a 45 degree angle line of firing. So using some elementary trig, if the long side of the right triangle is 3000 feet, then the plane is about 2100 feet off the ground, and about the same distance, a bit less than a half mile horizontally from the target. If you're flying close air support, and you don't expect much AA or SAM (surface to air missile) batteries, no need to be that high up.

But notice in the video, one guy pulls a weapon from the truck after the first round of fire, probably some kind of SAM and he starts to target the plane. Notice the guys on the plane getting really panicky - "He's aiming. SHOOT HIM!" I would be panicky too! They also try to get some other dudes to lob a missile over there, but those guys say they're out of range! That's the real thing in the video - you don't see that on the evening news. Awesome!!

Jeezuss!! Just watched it again. That second part of the video is the same exact situation being photographed from another gunship - you see the same exact guy from behind as he targets the first gunship and you hear the second gunship talking to the first "We got em - the guy who was shooting at you." Then he follows some runners and at one point he says "I've got an azimuth limit, roll out." I think he's trying to get the pilot to tip the plane a little more - he can't get the guy who is just under his cross hairs. Notice how as you look down, you are circling around the targets. I don't know if COD4 actually does as much circling - I'll have to play that part again.

Man, terrorists, let me clue you bad guys in. You really don't want to be messing around covering and uncovering weapons in an open truck with two kick-ass gunships circling overhead!

So once again, I humbly apologize to Infinity Ward. The COD4 episode is right-on accurate. Good for you guys!! Notice in the YouTube the guy saying: "Ok Kill em. Yeah, that's it, smoke em." Just like in COD4.

Damn! That's a Bad *ss airplane! Screw college I'm enlisting! :)

AC-130 Gunship

Here's one more video of the plane - with a small piece of footage a quarter inch back from the end, just after a close-up of the pilot, showing the AC-130 in a turn shooting 45 degrees down at ground targets (like the photograph above.)

:O

-Rich


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