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From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: several bullet questions
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Date: 6 Jul 89 01:43:28 GMT
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From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

In article <7934@cbnews.ATT.COM>, ut-emx!walt.cc.utexas.edu!cyrius@cs.utexas.edu (Juan Chen) writes:
> >From: rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET
> >	Can any of you mil.netters comment on the following questions
> >
> >	- Wasn't there a PIGGY-BACK bullet used in Viet Nam ?  I would

The Navy tried a boosted shell fired from a battleship.  Extended the
useful range of the ship's main battery with acceptable degradation in
accuracy.
	
> >	- What was "PUFF, the Magic dragon"?...

An AC-47, which was a C-47 transport with multi-barrel rotary gun
firing up to 6000 rounds/minute from the open door.  Also carried
searchlight and flares to permit fire support during the night.

>   A C-130 packed with rotary barrel guns alogn its sides...

The AC-130 was called "Spooky" (officially it may have been called
a "Spectre" gunship.

The Army operates some of them now out here.