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Subject: Re: Gun specialists? What about *REAL* guns?
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:32:26 -0500
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For those of you that have never heard "Puff" when it fires it sounds like a
long fart. Actually if you put your lips together and blow between them
letting them flap slightly you get a kind of hum sound, this is about what
it sounds like.



Ray McCalla wrote in message <6h0jvb$3f8$1@usenet85.supernews.com>...
>You are referring to the AC-130.  I think the official name is the Spectre.
I believe the US Air
>Force still has a few of these, but I'm not sure about that.  It is a 4
turboprop cargo transport
>converted to carry a number of guns including the miniguns you describe.
The aircraft also carries
>a 105mm howitzer, by far the largest gun ever mounted in an aircraft!  The
pilot actually has a
>modified fighter HUD mounted on his port-side window so he can look left
and properly position the
>aircraft to aim the weapons.  You aptly described it as "hell on the
enemy."
>
>--
>Ray McCalla                            Quake2: RoboRay
>    (Remove "DELETETHIS" for e-mail reply)
>This message transmitted on recycled electrons.
>--
>Brett Jacobs wrote in message <6h0j5d$inu$1@ha2.rdc1.tn.home.com>...
><snip>
>>As many as 8 mini guns (42,000 rounds per minute) would be mounted on one
>>side of a plane and the plane would circle the target raining down total
hell on
>>the enemy. This plane's only mission was to fire these mini guns, and
>>carried ammo for the mini guns in excess of 250,000 rounds. A test was
>>conducted were one of these planes flew over a football field and opened
>>fire. There was at least one bullet strike every square foot covering the
>>whole field. I used to know the name of the plane but it evades my memory
>>right now. The nick- name for the plane was "Puff The Magic Dragon
><snip>
>
>