terrorist meet AC-130 gunship

[benzylic]

Pretty good video of an AC-130 taking out a truck

LINK

 

[RedsevN]

Just like Call of Duty.

 

[Mo0o]

Makes me want to play CoD4 again.

 

[benzylic]

In my opinion the people who made COD4 did a pretty good job with the ac-130 mission

 

[TallBill]

What a high stress decision these guys are making. I'm sure it's "fun" to take bad guys out like this, but a bad decision ends careers.

 

[0roo0roo]

thats a higher res version of one i saw long ago. pretty creepy

 

[IEC]

What worries me is that the guy claimed he was "99.9% sure" it was a weapon when it was frackin' hard to tell.

Of course, when the guy pulls out a Kalashnikov later it's pretty obvious...

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
What worries me is that the guy claimed he was "99.9% sure" it was a weapon when it was frackin' hard to tell.

Of course, when the guy pulls out a Kalashnikov later it's pretty obvious...

Read above. They do have experience at this and can recognize weapons better then the average joe. A bunch of guys dont just swarm around a truck to hide piping under a cloth.

 

[scott916]

My buddy who just got back from Afghanistan showed me a picture of a dude he had just killed with a 40mm grenade launcher. Eerie shit, I tell you.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: mxrider
In my opinion the people who made COD4 did a pretty good job with the ac-130 mission

I didn't enjoy that mission at all, very boring. It doees look strikingly similar to the video in the OP though.

KT

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
What worries me is that the guy claimed he was "99.9% sure" it was a weapon when it was frackin' hard to tell.

Of course, when the guy pulls out a Kalashnikov later it's pretty obvious...

Read above. They do have experience at this and can recognize weapons better then the average joe. A bunch of guys dont just swarm around a truck to hide piping under a cloth.

Plus they're not watching a low-res, highly compressed Youtube video. They have a higher res monitor.

 

[Kadarin]

Nice job. There's a few people who won't be killing our soldiers in the future.

 

[venkman]

I found myself instinctively clicking the left mouse button while watching that video :Q

 

[NoShangriLa]

Originally posted by: TallBill
What a high stress decision these guys are making. I'm sure it's "fun" to take bad guys out like this, but a bad decision ends careers.

If you can call that a career.

 

[AlienCraft]

The flip side of that is finding a link to one of a KBR truck convoy getting ambushed, and the driver being trapped in his cab with no weapon and no covering vehicles.... and he sees the insurgents finishing off the truck driver of the truck they managed to flip.
It was damn chilling to watch.

There is no satisfaction in this war.

Ahh found this buried in the comments section....
The video, shot on Sept. 20, 2005 by KBR truck driver Preston Wheeler


Three KBR truck? drivers were killed that day. They are Keven Dagit, 42 (in truck 3), of Jefferson, Iowa; Christopher Lem, 40, (in truck 1) of Lyndon Station, Wisconsin; and Sascha Grenner-Case (in truck 4) of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Wheeler, who lives in Arkansas, was shot and barely survived. Two other drivers, including Terry Steward (in truck 2) of Idaho, were also injured. "
KBR convoy ambushed

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: NoShangriLa

Originally posted by: TallBill
What a high stress decision these guys are making. I'm sure it's "fun" to take bad guys out like this, but a bad decision ends careers.

If you can call that a career.

:roll:

 

[UnatcoAgent]

This isn't from a C130, it's from an apache

 

[Pocatello]

That wasn't the AC-130. Listen to the conversation between the pilots, the sound of the rounds of the 30mm chain gun going off, the TADS display, I'm pretty sure it is the Apache helicopter. At least two Apache helicopters.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft
The flip side of that is finding a link to one of a KBR truck convoy getting ambushed, and the driver being trapped in his cab with no weapon and no covering vehicles.... and he sees the insurgents finishing off the truck driver of the truck they managed to flip.
It was damn chilling to watch.

There is no satisfaction in this war.

Ahh found this buried in the comments section....
The video, shot on Sept. 20, 2005 by KBR truck driver Preston Wheeler


Three KBR truck? drivers were killed that day. They are Keven Dagit, 42 (in truck 3), of Jefferson, Iowa; Christopher Lem, 40, (in truck 1) of Lyndon Station, Wisconsin; and Sascha Grenner-Case (in truck 4) of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Wheeler, who lives in Arkansas, was shot and barely survived. Two other drivers, including Terry Steward (in truck 2) of Idaho, were also injured. "
KBR convoy ambushed

That's some horrible shit to be in.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: Pocatello
That wasn't the AC-130. Listen to the conversation between the pilots, the sound of the rounds of the 30mm chain gun going off, the TADS display, I'm pretty sure it is the Apache helicopter. At least two Apache helicopters.

Diddo ^

 

[BoomerD]

I had the experience of seeing the original C-47 Puff the Magic Dragon gunships a couple of times in Vietnam, as well as the C-130's that replaced them. The Vulcan mini-gun was quite an impressive piece of hardware. IIRC, the original Puff's had 3 mounted in them, and were therefore capable of something like 300 rounds/second...and was feared by the enemy.

"Puff the Magic Dragon

Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of Cam Ranh bon
Came to fly the evening skies
In a land called Vietnam.

Puff the Magic Dragon, came across the sea,
To write it's name in guns of flame
In the heart of hostile SEA

When the grunts are in trouble
And Charlie's all around
The thoughts may pry into the sky
Beneath the fires on the ground

The VC's mortal terror, starts when many cries
And the Dragon's breath of sudden death
Comes screaming from the sky.

Yes, Puff will still be flying,
>From one corps down to four
Till Charlie's gone and the evening comes
It's like the year before.

But I'll remember always,
the ground troops grateful cry,
When fire is beamed and Charlie screamed
At the Dragon in the sky.

Now Dragons live forever and the Puff is just the same,
The Gooney Bird will still be heard when Grandpa is my name.
It will have to roam the skies with friends ..not with me
For I'm going home, no more to roam
In a land across the sea.

Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of Cam Ranh bon
Came to fly the evening skies
In a land called Vietnam.

Puff the Magic Dragon, came across the sea,
To write it's name in guns of flame
In the heart of hostile SEA"


I was just a grunt, so I never saw one "up close," but I saw what they could do.


http://www.diggerhistory.info/...ietnam/spooky-puff.htm

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: AlienCraft
The flip side of that is finding a link to one of a KBR truck convoy getting ambushed, and the driver being trapped in his cab with no weapon and no covering vehicles.... and he sees the insurgents finishing off the truck driver of the truck they managed to flip.
It was damn chilling to watch.

There is no satisfaction in this war.

Ahh found this buried in the comments section....
The video, shot on Sept. 20, 2005 by KBR truck driver Preston Wheeler


Three KBR truck? drivers were killed that day. They are Keven Dagit, 42 (in truck 3), of Jefferson, Iowa; Christopher Lem, 40, (in truck 1) of Lyndon Station, Wisconsin; and Sascha Grenner-Case (in truck 4) of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Wheeler, who lives in Arkansas, was shot and barely survived. Two other drivers, including Terry Steward (in truck 2) of Idaho, were also injured. "
KBR convoy ambushed

That's some horrible shit to be in.

Yep. I keep replaying in my mind that one transmission where the guy from the truck that got blasted says "I'm bleeding out" matter of factly, no excitment, you can hear the resignation in his voice. :disgust: :|

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
What worries me is that the guy claimed he was "99.9% sure" it was a weapon when it was frackin' hard to tell.

Of course, when the guy pulls out a Kalashnikov later it's pretty obvious...

You're watching compressed FLA version of the video...

 

[rasczak]

that's some truly sobering shit right there.

 

[mooncancook]

Originally posted by: venkman
I found myself instinctively clicking the left mouse button while watching that video :Q

Well done, you earn a medal.