Don't watch it if you don't want to see little infrared people getting hit with bombs.
"Uwhee!"
"Goin' to town."
Judging from the impacts, they're firing with the 40mm cannons; also because it seems the targeting calls seem to come from the fire control officers and not the pilot (who's in charge of firing the 105mm cannon). Fire control and sensor operators have control over the 40mm and 20/25mm guns.
Still, damn nice show 
ben(at)netmastering(dot)nl
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MadCat the 2nd Model 2000 was programmed to say:
Actually, the AC-130 Spectre can carry Hellfire missiles, but not bombs.Judging from the impacts, they're firing with the 40mm cannons; also because it seems the targeting calls seem to come from the fire control officers and not the pilot (who's in charge of firing the 105mm cannon). Fire control and sensor operators have control over the 40mm and 20/25mm guns.
Still, damn nice show
Actually now that I watch it again they do say something about the 40mm cannons so that's probably it.
yes I know, I'm horrible
[ 12-19-2002: Message edited by: Arrenn Lightblade ]
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
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Sentow had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
What was it they kept saying everytime they took a shot?
I thought he kept saying "god DAMN" [ 12-20-2002: Message edited by: nem-x ]
or
Ka-BAM!
But damn, that one point where one of the guys wasn't moving... and they dropped a shot RIGHT on him, you even hear him say "Direct Hit"
And then out of the blast you see him run like hell out
I must say, that video was damn cool
Direct hit.
WHOOSH
NANI?
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Dr. Pvednes, PhD said this about your mom:
I could have sworn I heard one of them say headshot.
One of em did 
When they hit one of the trucks I could swear I heard "ooh! headshot!"
Nem? You pulling AC-130 duty now? 
*goes back to watch it again and listens for "roofles"*
ben(at)netmastering(dot)nl
First truck hit, "head shot"
It had the US military PWNING those afghans.
Pwnd.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage had this to say about Optimus Prime:
An AC-130 doesn't have external ordnance racks--where would it put Hellfire missiles?
The men can hold them and just toss them out of the door!
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Bloodsage had this to say about Tron:
An AC-130 doesn't have external ordnance racks--where would it put Hellfire missiles?
I was under the impression that they had gven the AC-130s one external rack on each wing.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Azizza had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
I was under the impression that they had gven the AC-130s one external rack on each wing.
I have not seen an pic of one with it, nor does the Airforce fact sheet list it. I think they could load it up with guided arty shells if they needed to anyways.
It'd be squirrely, anyway, launching missiles with two prop engines on the wings.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
The way he keyed his mike made it sound a lot like "Head shot," though.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
But then again, there was a bard in my Povar Guild who was a Drill Instructor at Ft. Benning...
Scary guy, too... He was all like... "So, what's your address?"
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Suddar painfully thought these words up:
I'm pretty sure the "bang" that guy said after each shot was a confirmation shout. I'm really not sure, but I'm sure Bloodsage would know better.
Probably.
I'm almost certain that the military deliberately places atleast one Southerner in every group, so that there's that Southern Accent present in all Radio Conversations.
It's like at any given point where military personnel is communicating with eachother, there will be atleast one Token Southerner present.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Verily, Bloodsage doth proclaim:
Hehe. Token southerner. Funny thing is, it's true.
I KNEW IT!
It is a conspiracy!
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Bloodsage had this to say about Robocop:
I can't find anything showing or describing external ordnance racks or missiles.It'd be squirrely, anyway, launching missiles with two prop engines on the wings.
As far as I know from a friend of mine (he's a techie doing plane maintenance), the later AC-130 models have 2 external hardpoints all the way out on the wingtips. I'm pretty sure I saw them too when there was a Spectre sitting at an airshow I visited. (At least, the pylon was attached to the hardpoint, dunno if those things can come off - I assume there's always the ability to either remove a pylon off a hardpoint or to jettison it or something).
But, I might be wrong I'd have to look it up somewhere.
Either which way though, the AC-130 has to be one of the most awe inspiring planes - I'd hate to be on the receiving end of what it can dish out 
ben(at)netmastering(dot)nl
In the picture you can see two racks on the outboard wing sections but I can't tell what's on them. It seems kind of silly to hang one hellfire missile on each, it looks more like sensor packages to me but that doesn't mean you couldn't hang missile racks on there too.
The racks between the propellers normally hold external fuel tanks and I think I've seen fuel tanks on the outboard racks once too but that might be only for long range ferry operations. [ 12-20-2002: Message edited by: Kermitov ]
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Kermitov enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
AC_130H/U Air Force spec sheet
In the picture you can see two racks on the outboard wing sections but I can't tell what's on them. It seems kind of silly to hang one hellfire missile on each, it looks more like sensor packages to me but that doesn't mean you couldn't hang missile racks on there too.The racks between the propellers normally hold external fuel tanks and I think I've seen fuel tanks on the outboard racks once too but that might be only for long range ferry operations.
Well, pretty much any weapon or other gadget that you can hang on a military plane uses the same protocol to talk to the rest of the equipment, so you can hang a sensor pod on one pylon and a bunch of hellfires on the other just as easy as you can hang fuel tanks on it.
As far as I managed to read up on it anyway
ben(at)netmastering(dot)nl
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nem-x probably says this to all the girls:
I thought hellfires were only for military helicopters.
No, The Drones mount them to Now... Infantry are strting to act as laser equipped spotters even more than in the Gulf War, due to the increased avalability, and decreased size of targeting equipment...
Although I couldnt guess the reason for an AC-130 to be mounting Hellfires, With its other armament in mind Hellfires would be more expensive for the same amount of firepower...
