C130's circling overhead....
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Was it one of the new AC-130 "Bomb Trucks" ?
The U.S. Air Force's New AC-130 Gunships Are Really Bomb Trucks
The U.S. Air Force's New AC-130 Gunships Are Really Bomb Trucks
For the past 30 minutes there's been a solo F16 going around in circles over the lake, making quite a racket. After listening to him for a while I went outside to see what was making all that noise, it was just one F16 but doing tight circles down around 2000', just below the broken cloud deck.
I wish he had buzzed my dock for a door check!
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Was it one of the new AC-130 "Bomb Trucks" ?
The U.S. Air Force's New AC-130 Gunships Are Really Bomb Trucks
The U.S. Air Force's New AC-130 Gunships Are Really Bomb Trucks
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I've been listening to jets working the AP range for about 17 years. They are usually up high and going fast, but what I've been seeing/hearing this past week is something new.
Never seen a C130 doing low circles for HOURS, days on end, before now. I figured maybe there was a new unit in town doing some ISR training or such. Looked like there was a King Air up there too, doing the same thing for a few days, followed by F16's zipping around down low.
Today it was a flight of WW2 T6's but they are training for Sun N Fun, going over to Lakeland later today.
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The ceramic armor helped in Vietnam....but I doubt it did much for us after that - except add weight. The last time a gunship was hit by enemy "fire" it was an SA-XX. No armor will protect from a hit to the engine or wing by one of those.
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Yeah, I am sure a lot of smart people were involved in the project..But then I turn around and look at the A10 cancellation and question my first supposition!!
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I flew them for 6 years then flew with them in ops for another 6. Never in the past "as long as I can remember" has an AC130 been hit by AAA. (I meant since Vietnam....Grenanda? Panama? DS? Nope) They aren't putting the armor on that we had because it's like teets on a bull. They may have newer lighter armor....
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