Prop-driven fighting aircraft

[davepoth]

That's one using tracer at night. Cool.

[FourWheelDrift]

davepoth said:

That's not a gun.



That's a gun. 105mm Howitzer on a plane. They also have two Vulcan cannons for when that runs out. The gunners are furnished with shovels to get rid of the shell casings...

Big badaboom.

[Flintstone]

Obviously it'll be beefed up but I dread to think what loads that places on the airframe.

As for clearing out the casings just drop the rear door and zoom climb.

[Simpo Two]

Flintstone said:

Obviously it'll be beefed up but I dread to think what loads that places on the airframe.

Recoiless guns are nothing new - or use a muzzle brake?

[Ayahuasca]

AC130 'Puff the Magic Dragon' bringing the good news to downtown Panama City in 1989.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbVISYRjeSc

[Nick_F]

Wearing gloves to load???

[perdu]

Nick_F said:

Wearing gloves to load???

Aircrew wear gloves

SOP


I bet those are very warmth proof too...

[Ayahuasca]

There is a tooled-up version of these - drops bombs and bullets rather than pesticide.

Edited by Ayahuasca on Sunday 8th August 23:11

[Mr Dave]

All of these are fine when you have air superiority and there is a negliable SAM and AA threat, it was a MANPAD brought down an AC-130 near Kuwait city iirc. Several were lost over Vietnam as well.

Would hate to be the poor sod in a Hercules going up against any sort of fast air.

[LD1Racing]

perdu said:

warmth proof

[Mojocvh]

davepoth said:

That's one using tracer at night. Cool.

CRAM taking out incoming....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqTyafBaDYM&fea... think someones about to get a kicking at the end though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj1_8Of0DPI&fea...

[CobolMan]

If anyone wants to read a fictionalised account of the AC130 in Vietnam, I can recommend Henry Zeybel's "Gunship : Spectre of Death".

[FourWheelDrift]

Belize along with other assorted small air forces around the world operate the Britten-Norman Defender, the military version of the Islander. It has hard points under the wings for bombs, missiles, 7.62-mm machine-gun pods, rocket pods, flares and sensors.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Mr Dave said:

Would hate to be the poor sod in a Hercules going up against any sort of fast air.

You'd be surprised how survivable a well flown C130 is against FJs.

[KieronGSi]

FourWheelDrift said:

Belize along with other assorted small air forces around the world operate the Britten-Norman Defender, the military version of the Islander. It has hard points under the wings for bombs, missiles, 7.62-mm machine-gun pods, rocket pods, flares and sensors.

The Army also use this a/c just without bombs or bullets.