From:	ShadowRN@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam)
Subject:	raining a hailstorm of lead
Date:	Fri, 16 May 2003 16:54:58 +0100

In article <200305131122.55015.gurth@******.nl>, Gurth <gurth@******.nl>
writes
>I'm not sure, but I think you may be thinking of the AC-130 Specter
>gunship, basically a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft with two 7.62 mm
>miniguns, two 20 mm Vulcan rotary cannons, a 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft
>gun and a 105 mm M102 howitzer all shooting down out of the left side of
>the aircraft.

Not for quite a while. The armament now is a 105mm howitzer, a 40mm
cannon and a 25mm Gatling. (The 20mm and 7.62mm guns forced the aircraft
down into range of shoulder-launched SAMs and 37mm AAA)

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Paul J. Adam