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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: AC-130
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.030301.22853@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 03:03:01 GMT
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

In article <1990Aug24.033918.34@cbnews.att.com>, yaniv%shum.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (ran el-Yaniv) writes:
> 
> 
> From: ran el-Yaniv <yaniv%shum.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
> 
> 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



  ...yeah, but...if I'm on the ground, one of those Spectre Gunships orbiting
  overhead give me a warm, fuzzy feeling.  The firepower those things can
  spit out is AWSOME!!  And with computer-transponder links - highly 
  accurate.  It will certainly keep the bad guys buttoned up and heads down.


  mike schmitt