From:	arclight@*********.de (Arclight)
Subject:	raining a hailstorm of lead
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2003 11:14:22 +0200

At 17:14 13.05.2003 +1000, Robert Ennew wrote:

> What's the name of that plane or was It a chopper in
>the rececent Afghanistan war, that would patrol
>several kilometers In the air just raining down a
>hailstorm of lead from about 4 hyper velocity
>miniguns. It was bulldrek the amount of firepower that
>It expended, not to mention the weight of all that
>ammunition, something like tens of thousands & It
>would patrol like this trying to flush out Al Quada
>(typical american patroling tactic ;)

Sounds like a AC-130 Spectre ...

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ac-130.htm


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