How The Ac-130 Destroyed At Least 20 Vehicles Per Night During Vietnam War

[OldDoorGunner]

How the AC-130 destroyed at least 20 vehicles per night during Vietnam War

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Sarg, you should like this one.......I learned somethings I did not know.

J R

 

[5line]

there wasnt a better feeling than having a gunship circling overhead.

 

[5line]

there was something sexy about omnipotent ISR

 

[19K30]

Hands down if I would have been the age to serve in Vietnam--- I would have. Thanks for fighting that war to all that did

 

[JarHed]

The C-130's would drop these flares; they were the size of a 5gal bucket. It would light up as far as you could see like it was day time. Then they would target they're objective and fire. It was just a stream of orange death. I always hoped they didn't get their coordinates wrong.

Still the VC or NVA would shoot back at the ship; personally, I'd have been hiding under the nearest rock.

Hands down if I would have been the age to serve in Vietnam--- I would have. Thanks for fighting that war to all that did

I appreciate your thanks 19K30. But I have to say now looking back it was a total waste of men and the time we spent in hell there. It didn't prove a thing or make anything at all better. Just screwed up politics.

 

[Spock]

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I appreciate your thanks 19K30. But I have to say now looking back it was a total waste of men and the time we spent in hell there. It didn't prove a thing or make anything at all better. Just screwed up politics.

but the Military Industrial complex was probably happy

 

[Sarg]

We were the test bed for the starlight scope used on the Specters. We could get 20 a night but needed fighters and bombers to take them out. The flares we dropped as well. They were 3 mil. candle for 3 min. We could just about keep an area lit for most the night. They closed us out in 69' and I think they moved the Specters out in 70' or so, lost two and two was too much.

The Specters, or Talons as they are known today are a hell of a platform. Especially with 155mm sticking out the left side.

Sarg

 

[Spock]

Our group flew RC-130 missions all over but in my day it was focused on central America out of Panama. Flew C-130s several times. I liked it usually, seemed like the closest I could get to a B-17 or B-24 mission.

 

[Sarg]

I'm trying to convince the Air Museum folks in Tucson to bury me in one.

Sarg