Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: yaniv%shum.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (ran el-Yaniv) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: AC-130 Message-ID: <1990Aug24.033918.34@cbnews.att.com> Date: 24 Aug 90 03:39:18 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 9 Approved: military@att.att.com From: ran el-Yaniv What would these be used for? The AC-130 is not very fast, nor very heavily armoured... It may be a good gunship for the COIN mission, but over Iraq it may susteain heavy casualties... yaniv