The AC-130 Gunship and the A-10 warthogs saved my squads asses a few times when we were pinned down in Afghanistan. We named the AC-130 gunship the hand of god and the A-10's were angels on our shoulders.
Both came in and saved the day for us a few times. Theres nothing like it. We were terrified knowing they were our guys, couldn't imagine being on the receiving end😂
C-130's have saved many a life, one of them mine. I was wounded during my 2nd tour of combat duty in Vietnam on May 17,1971. I was med-evact to the hospital ship Repose for stabilization. When I was stable enough to be flown out of country, myself and a number of wounded Marines were helicoptered to a jungle airfield near the DMZ. We were loaded onto a Marine C-130 sitting at the end of a red dirt runway. Our stretchers were all strapped in on the side racks of the airplane, IV bottles attached to the racks. When we were ready the pilots held the brakes of the C-130 and revved the engines up to full throttle. The loading ramp was kept down during take off and we could see the swirls of red dust being stirred by the 4 large propellers. With the ship shaking, engines screaming the brakes were released and we started off down the short runway, near the end the pilots pulled up into a steep climb just clearing the jungle canopy while enemy machine gun tracers could be seen flying by the plane. We kept in a steep climb, our IV bottles hanging at a 45 degree angle until we were out of gun range before leveling off., We were flown to the Philippines for treatment and then back to the states where I would spend the next 3 months in the hospital. I healed and spent 20 years in the Marine Corps before retiring. I became a California police officer and retired after a 30 year career in law enforcement. None of which would have been possible without the Navy Corpsmen, Marine Pilots and that C-130. I'll always remember that ride! Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Vietnam 1965-66 1970-71
You were surprised at the recoil of the airplane. When the USS Missouri (an old battleship) fired a full salvo it would push the whole ship six feet to the side.
Broadsides do not move Iowa-class battleships sideways. That is a myth started by someone who didn't realize that what they see in the pictures are the result of the shockwave from firing interacting with the water, not ripples indicating sideways motion.
Given how impressed our host was having an opportunity to fire the suite of auto-cannons and 105mm howitzer on the C-130 gunship. Try to imagine the impression being under the lash of all that firepower makes on enemies unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of all that weaponry.
The C-5 is a real monster size. The State police has to halt traffic when one lands at Hanscom Air Force Base to prevent accidents. They are huge. Easy to see how you could get mesmerized and crash into other cars.
A guy I worked with flew in the twin engine B-25 bombers out of New Guinea in WW2. Because their mission was primarily attacking Japanese shipping , their squadron and several others installed a 75 mm artillery piece aiming forward from the nose . When they fired that gun straight ahead , the recoil actually stopped the plane in the air for a second or two .
7:24 The green bag is called a helmet bag. Although I was infantry, that bag has many uses. I usually used it as a pillow. I still have it 30 years later.
Gunships are purely night time missions and only during the day if no resort, because they are low and slow and even a mile away can be hit with 50 caliber weapons. We lost one in Iraq, they were saving Marines trapped by heavy firing and keeping the enemy at bay, but it was getting light. The crew decided to stay and make some morning light runs to help the Marines and were shot down . I was told shoulder fired rockets and probably some 50 cal rounds took it down. My friend was on the rescue mission that found the crash site but no survivors. Staying during the light was a death sentence and the AD crew were all given Air Medals posthumously.
I wash actually born on Cannon AFB. Then I was briefly stationed there during my service. I love this base, and can say I was born military since I was born in the medical hospital of the base. And my birth cert says Cannon AFB. Tweeking is zeroing the sights
the reason the 40mm disappeared is because they were using ammunition left over from WW2 and korea. and i think because of maintenance problems. regardless someone decided that space was better used by something else
This is only mildly related. I have fired those cannons, but I am a hydro specialist. I use a wand/lance (not Harry Potter style) this thing shoots up to 50 thousand lbs of water pressure through 1 to 12 needle sized holes. Not joking a true Diesel 30k (thousand) pump is used to cut steal with only watater. A 15k lbs kick back at nearly 2000 miles an hour. You literally have 1/1000s of a second to react. This is beyond a bullet or a razer. 2 seconds can cut you in half with persuasion. At that t ther is also a shot gun (kinda like a car wash gun). These things a dangerous beyond belief, but short ranged . They can either give you a shower, cut you in half, or rip you to apart depending pn your distance/timing
It feeling like a video game is actually on purpose. So many of us grow up on them that making the real military hardware have a very similar feel and interface is going to allow for muscle memory to give them a head start. It makes it familiar. Armed Forces have been doing that for quite a while actually. And there has been a lot of cross polination of ideas. Games took their early cues from fighter HUDs and built them out from there with increasing information while finding ways to keep it clean and simple. And that feeds back into military development. It's not any official partnership, just that they both need the same things. They also put in a significant amount of work to make it as simple and efficient as they can. The less steps you have to do, the less you might forget. The less time it takes. And they take tons of measurements during testing a d feedback from the test crews and fine tune etc. Even safety measures. By the time the WSO has all the targeting info in place and calls out the ready, the CSO has already been double checking and verifying. So it's a super fast approval. The Captain has also been hearing and with the double verification gives his approval and the gun crew arm and clear the weapon. All extremely rapidly amd simply as possible. All recorded for chain of custody and make sure all procedures followed. It's extremely cool to see how it works and has evolved since hundreds of years ago.
The grand daddy to the AC-130 was the DC-3, armed with a Gatling gun...nick named, "Puff The Magic Dragon". I first saw it in a John Wayne movie called the Green Berets.
Finally someone has found Sam. He has unprecedented access to many military, mostly Air Force, things. He is military, a 1st LT. in the Air Force (Just below a Capt.), he has access a civilian will probably NEVER get. His father was an Air Force pilot. Also, yes, it is the COD mission.... -3:00 an AMERICAN COKE bottle, LMAO!!!
Saying it is like a Hercules.......C-130 Hercules......AC-130 Ghostrider.....its almost like they are the same plane. Most counties will use the same air frame for several different rolls. Like we the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the EA-18 Growler. They are the same fighter jet air frame just that one is pure multi role jack of all trades and one is a dedicated electronic warfare plane meant to jam and scramble enemy radars and communications making it very hard to shoot down the other planes its protecting, like true bombers or other fighters doing ground attack missions.
Mostly obsolete now. If the enemy has any air defense at all it's just a big fat target. Very useful in America's old asymmetric wars, but not survivable on a modern battlefield any more than the A-10. Add it to the collection of iconic aircraft of the past like the B-17, Spitfire, and Mustang.
They aren't bullets, they are explosive shells. But the tops of tanks aren't as heavily armored as the sides. If you ever saw what military grade weapons can do against various types of armor, you wouldn't think much of armored protection in many cases.
You'll need to be in the military + more. This guy is an Air Force 2nd Lieutenant and serves as the Public Affairs Officer for the F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team. That's the only reason he gets to do these videos.
Funny you called it a Hercules plane as thats what the nickname of the normal cargo variant is. C-130 is small compared to a C-17 and tiny next to a C-5.
Also, just thinking about this... do other militaries do this? Let a civilian come on board, look around explain it to them. Let them fore the weapons. Let them ride along in FA18 , F15, F16, etc. That a lone is kind of unprecedented. I honestly don't know if others do. UK maybe? Some other NATO members?
"but chief i dont want to get brass down my shirt" "Stop being a wiener and get a thermal burn like the rest of us" Freshly ejected brass from an M4 hurts like hell though i dont wanna know what a 105 or bigger would feel like
Awesome weapon when lurking over uncontested skies, it would not even reach it's target in current situation in Ukraine. It would be such a big and slow target and brought down very quickly.
Well yeah obviously, hence also having strike craft to knock out relevant air defense right before the ac-130 arrives... That's like common sense even when used in Iraq many years ago. It's basically the air forces air craft carrier in regards to vulnerability solo lol
If you want to learn what it's like to be *fired upon* by an AC-130, I recommend the following video which tells the story of a 'Doctors Without Borders' hospital in Afghanistan that was attacked by an AC-130. The story is beyond horrifying. You only need to watch the first five minutes. Sorry, YT will not allow a link. Search the title: "Rejecting U.S. Claims, MSF Details Horrific Bombing of Afghan Hospital & Demands War Crimes Probe." (The channel is 'Democracy Now.')
SInce this is a turboprop and a big target, does it have chaff and flares to fuck with anti-aircraft missiles and whatnot? Are there like F-22's doing hot laps overhead?
Yes they have defensive measures for anti missile lock, I believe flares but not 100% sure which type it has. And yes this plane would be supported by fighters, it can't fight air to air and it's very vulnerable to sams. It's really only viable with air superiority, meaning sams would already mostly be taken out by bombers or fighters. It's a flying anti infantry gunship, aka ground support. Can be more devastating than the warthog to infantry, however not nearly as versatile as the warthog.
Not disrespect to you guys but even if you guys are big youtubers, the odds of you getting an opportunity to do this with any military in the world. The reason he gets to alot of this stuff is because he is a former Airman or he still might be in the Airforce so he has the clearance and he does alot of promotional stuff for the airforce.
If you become big, BIG RUclipsrs you can have a lot of doors open for you. Contact the Red Arrow (like Blue Angels) demonstration team in the UK. All they can say is no.
Sam can get to use and shoot some military hardware cause he used to be in the military. Sorry YASS & FATS firing one of these weapons most likely won"t happen. But then you never know!
You guys should have a family Bible and read it together every day, while you still have the freedom to do so. The world is changing and not for the better.
The AC-130 Gunship and the A-10 warthogs saved my squads asses a few times when we were pinned down in Afghanistan. We named the AC-130 gunship the hand of god and the A-10's were angels on our shoulders.
The 2 best planes for close air support 💯. Thank you for your service 🇺🇲💪
Both came in and saved the day for us a few times. Theres nothing like it. We were terrified knowing they were our guys, couldn't imagine being on the receiving end😂
I was in Medic in the 3ID. I saw an A-10 strafing positions when I was in Iraq. It boosted my morale.
I never saw an AC-130.
Watch Scott Horton's Enough Already playlist and read the book. It's a must read for all vets.
C-130's have saved many a life, one of them mine. I was wounded during my 2nd tour of combat duty in Vietnam on May 17,1971. I was med-evact to the hospital ship Repose for stabilization. When I was stable enough to be flown out of country, myself and a number of wounded Marines were helicoptered to a jungle airfield near the DMZ. We were loaded onto a Marine C-130 sitting at the end of a red dirt runway. Our stretchers were all strapped in on the side racks of the airplane, IV bottles attached to the racks. When we were ready the pilots held the brakes of the C-130 and revved the engines up to full throttle. The loading ramp was kept down during take off and we could see the swirls of red dust being stirred by the 4 large propellers. With the ship shaking, engines screaming the brakes were released and we started off down the short runway, near the end the pilots pulled up into a steep climb just clearing the jungle canopy while enemy machine gun tracers could be seen flying by the plane. We kept in a steep climb, our IV bottles hanging at a 45 degree angle until we were out of gun range before leveling off., We were flown to the Philippines for treatment and then back to the states where I would spend the next 3 months in the hospital. I healed and spent 20 years in the Marine Corps before retiring. I became a California police officer and retired after a 30 year career in law enforcement. None of which would have been possible without the Navy Corpsmen, Marine Pilots and that C-130. I'll always remember that ride!
Tom Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
Vietnam 1965-66 1970-71
Thank you for your service
Welcome home, marine, SEMPER FI TIL I DIE
From a USAF retired NCO I salute you! Semper Fi "Always Faithful"
Thank you for your service
Welcome home brother. Glad you’re here!
You were surprised at the recoil of the airplane. When the USS Missouri (an old battleship) fired a full salvo it would push the whole ship six feet to the side.
Thus why the decks are made of that wood
Broadsides do not move Iowa-class battleships sideways.
That is a myth started by someone who didn't realize that what they see in the pictures are the result of the shockwave from firing interacting with the water, not ripples indicating sideways motion.
@@pauld6967just came to make sure someone said it lol.
@@NateWhitelock I am always happy to help set things right.
It's the same plane as the Hercules. But with heavy modifications
It is indeed a killstreak 🔥😂
A good one too😎👍🏻
Probably the best thing in COD and is known by damn near everyone.
Given how impressed our host was having an opportunity to fire the suite of auto-cannons and 105mm howitzer on the C-130 gunship. Try to imagine the impression being under the lash of all that firepower makes on enemies unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of all that weaponry.
The C-5 is a real monster size. The State police has to halt traffic when one lands at Hanscom Air Force Base to prevent accidents. They are huge. Easy to see how you could get mesmerized and crash into other cars.
I think it's probably more for backwash from the plane
Yeah, it’s a kill streak that’s most notable on MW3.
A guy I worked with flew in the twin engine B-25 bombers out of New Guinea in WW2. Because their mission was primarily attacking Japanese shipping , their squadron and several others installed a 75 mm artillery piece aiming forward from the nose . When they fired that gun straight ahead , the recoil actually stopped the plane in the air for a second or two .
The A-10 is still the grunts favorite plane because it's seen up close and personal. The AC-130 lurks.
Man, Cannon AFB. I spent many nights and days on that flightline working way back in my youth. Back when the F-111 was there.
Ahhh yes, Cannon airplane patch. OK Cannon AFB. Crew Chief from 1970-1973 F-111
Slides right IN! 😮 15:30, that's what SHE said!!! 😂😂😂
I was so tempted 😂
"its like a hercules plane" you said... actually it is... the cargo base model is called the C130 Hercules
7:24 The green bag is called a helmet bag. Although I was infantry, that bag has many uses. I usually used it as a pillow. I still have it 30 years later.
You want to see a large Airplane the C-5 Galaxy.
1 round cost $400 dollars according to Google lol
They call the Ammo, Shells.
There are things that bump in the night. These are the ones who bump back
Keep up the good work guys
I believe the first ever AC-130 gunship was used in the Vietnam War and was named Puff the Magic Dragon
Happy father's day out there
Gunships are purely night time missions and only during the day if no resort, because they are low and slow and even a mile away can be hit with 50 caliber weapons. We lost one in Iraq, they were saving Marines trapped by heavy firing and keeping the enemy at bay, but it was getting light. The crew decided to stay and make some morning light runs to help the Marines and were shot down . I was told shoulder fired rockets and probably some 50 cal rounds took it down. My friend was on the rescue mission that found the crash site but no survivors. Staying during the light was a death sentence and the AD crew were all given Air Medals posthumously.
Sam is actually the photographer of US Air Force. He is kind of an 'insider'.
I wash actually born on Cannon AFB. Then I was briefly stationed there during my service. I love this base, and can say I was born military since I was born in the medical hospital of the base. And my birth cert says Cannon AFB. Tweeking is zeroing the sights
To my two British cousins. The rounds that are fed into cannons, from 20mm. up to 155mm. are called shells, okay??
Oh wow, I use to be stationed at Cannon in 2001, back then it was a fighter wing that houses F-16’s.
The older version had two 20 mm Gatling guns and two 40 mm cannons. And the main cannon. This version is very simple.
the reason the 40mm disappeared is because they were using ammunition left over from WW2 and korea. and i think because of maintenance problems. regardless someone decided that space was better used by something else
This is only mildly related. I have fired those cannons, but I am a hydro specialist. I use a wand/lance (not Harry Potter style) this thing shoots up to 50 thousand lbs of water pressure through 1 to 12 needle sized holes. Not joking a true Diesel 30k (thousand) pump is used to cut steal with only watater. A 15k lbs kick back at nearly 2000 miles an hour. You literally have 1/1000s of a second to react. This is beyond a bullet or a razer. 2 seconds can cut you in half with persuasion. At that t ther is also a shot gun (kinda like a car wash gun). These things a dangerous beyond belief, but short ranged . They can either give you a shower, cut you in half, or rip you to apart depending pn your distance/timing
Yes it definitely is a killstreak in COD
Hey mate, we're Yanks, and for the most part, depending where you're from, we're a pretty friendly lot. Spent almost 2 years in the UK!
It’s actually a modified C-130 Herc
It feeling like a video game is actually on purpose. So many of us grow up on them that making the real military hardware have a very similar feel and interface is going to allow for muscle memory to give them a head start. It makes it familiar. Armed Forces have been doing that for quite a while actually. And there has been a lot of cross polination of ideas. Games took their early cues from fighter HUDs and built them out from there with increasing information while finding ways to keep it clean and simple. And that feeds back into military development. It's not any official partnership, just that they both need the same things.
They also put in a significant amount of work to make it as simple and efficient as they can. The less steps you have to do, the less you might forget. The less time it takes. And they take tons of measurements during testing a d feedback from the test crews and fine tune etc. Even safety measures. By the time the WSO has all the targeting info in place and calls out the ready, the CSO has already been double checking and verifying. So it's a super fast approval. The Captain has also been hearing and with the double verification gives his approval and the gun crew arm and clear the weapon. All extremely rapidly amd simply as possible. All recorded for chain of custody and make sure all procedures followed. It's extremely cool to see how it works and has evolved since hundreds of years ago.
The grand daddy to the AC-130 was the DC-3, armed with a Gatling gun...nick named, "Puff The Magic Dragon". I first saw it in a John Wayne movie called the Green Berets.
Several M134 miniguns actually. it was used through Vietnam. by the end of the war the spook replaced it
Finally someone has found Sam. He has unprecedented access to many military, mostly Air Force, things. He is military, a 1st LT. in the Air Force (Just below a Capt.), he has access a civilian will probably NEVER get. His father was an Air Force pilot. Also, yes, it is the COD mission....
-3:00 an AMERICAN COKE bottle, LMAO!!!
The Fat Electrician talks about how the weapons are like call of duty in his video "America's Kamikaze Drone". Really funny!!
yes it is
I don't think they had these when I was in service it was c-130 they were mostly carriers. Awesome planes very stable
A direct hit on a tank and it's toast even a dummy round would penetrate the top armor
Saying it is like a Hercules.......C-130 Hercules......AC-130 Ghostrider.....its almost like they are the same plane. Most counties will use the same air frame for several different rolls. Like we the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the EA-18 Growler. They are the same fighter jet air frame just that one is pure multi role jack of all trades and one is a dedicated electronic warfare plane meant to jam and scramble enemy radars and communications making it very hard to shoot down the other planes its protecting, like true bombers or other fighters doing ground attack missions.
Mostly obsolete now. If the enemy has any air defense at all it's just a big fat target. Very useful in America's old asymmetric wars, but not survivable on a modern battlefield any more than the A-10. Add it to the collection of iconic aircraft of the past like the B-17, Spitfire, and Mustang.
the depressurized cabin is a big deal lol some flights they would need oxygen masks just to make their runs
He's basically media
They aren't bullets, they are explosive shells. But the tops of tanks aren't as heavily armored as the sides.
If you ever saw what military grade weapons can do against various types of armor, you wouldn't think much of armored protection in many cases.
These planes normally also had a gatling gun.
AKA Spooky.🇺🇸🦅
They are not called bullits. They are rounds.
It’s spelled bullets not bullits.
You'll need to be in the military + more. This guy is an Air Force 2nd Lieutenant and serves as the Public Affairs Officer for the F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team. That's the only reason he gets to do these videos.
Next is the C-17 Globemaster gunship
Funny you called it a Hercules plane as thats what the nickname of the normal cargo variant is. C-130 is small compared to a C-17 and tiny next to a C-5.
not the most armed. that gatling gun is beat by the a-10 which is 30mm and shoots 3900 a minute
Crew to Sam, " You feel that smile on your face? Remember we get paid to do this!"
His dad was in the military before flying one these thing
Also, just thinking about this... do other militaries do this? Let a civilian come on board, look around explain it to them. Let them fore the weapons. Let them ride along in FA18 , F15, F16, etc. That a lone is kind of unprecedented. I honestly don't know if others do. UK maybe? Some other NATO members?
He's not a civilian. He's an air force legacy and an officer himself. No civilians actually get to do that much
So does it only have 2 guns now?
I want a claymore in Call of Duty 4 hardcore search and destroy.
I've loaded and fired many, many 105mm rounds on the M1 Abrams. Those hot casings would burn you if they hit uncovered flesh
"but chief i dont want to get brass down my shirt"
"Stop being a wiener and get a thermal burn like the rest of us"
Freshly ejected brass from an M4 hurts like hell though i dont wanna know what a 105 or bigger would feel like
ENEMY AC130 ABOVE!!!!!!!!!
It's basically an AC-130 Hercules cargo plane... on Steroids.
Awesome weapon when lurking over uncontested skies, it would not even reach it's target in current situation in Ukraine. It would be such a big and slow target and brought down very quickly.
Well yeah obviously, hence also having strike craft to knock out relevant air defense right before the ac-130 arrives... That's like common sense even when used in Iraq many years ago. It's basically the air forces air craft carrier in regards to vulnerability solo lol
That plane reminds me of Wimpy from the Popeye comic strip. I don't know exactly why.
If you want to learn what it's like to be *fired upon* by an AC-130, I recommend the following video which tells the story of a 'Doctors Without Borders' hospital in Afghanistan that was attacked by an AC-130. The story is beyond horrifying. You only need to watch the first five minutes. Sorry, YT will not allow a link. Search the title: "Rejecting U.S. Claims, MSF Details Horrific Bombing of Afghan Hospital & Demands War Crimes Probe." (The channel is 'Democracy Now.')
I believe that RUclipsr went to the air force academy and was an officer
missing the minigun.
SInce this is a turboprop and a big target, does it have chaff and flares to fuck with anti-aircraft missiles and whatnot? Are there like F-22's doing hot laps overhead?
Yes they have defensive measures for anti missile lock, I believe flares but not 100% sure which type it has. And yes this plane would be supported by fighters, it can't fight air to air and it's very vulnerable to sams. It's really only viable with air superiority, meaning sams would already mostly be taken out by bombers or fighters. It's a flying anti infantry gunship, aka ground support. Can be more devastating than the warthog to infantry, however not nearly as versatile as the warthog.
The only thing that stuck with me....those jackasses walked through the damb prop arc!
react to some guntubers maybe theyll get you out to america to shoot for range day... matter of fact range day with brandon would be a great reaction
It’s the Angel of Death! 🔥
fly swatter.
Subscribed, hope you get a chance to fly in the Ghostrider.
Not disrespect to you guys but even if you guys are big youtubers, the odds of you getting an opportunity to do this with any military in the world. The reason he gets to alot of this stuff is because he is a former Airman or he still might be in the Airforce so he has the clearance and he does alot of promotional stuff for the airforce.
Those are shells or rounds, not bullets 🙃
He thinks he's in control the military will not let a citizen to do that
If you become big, BIG RUclipsrs you can have a lot of doors open for you. Contact the Red Arrow (like Blue Angels) demonstration team in the UK. All they can say is no.
Sam can get to use and shoot some military hardware cause he used to be in the military. Sorry YASS & FATS firing one of these weapons most likely won"t happen. But then you never know!
It's a toy for everyone😜😜
👌👌
You guys should have a family Bible and read it together every day, while you still have the freedom to do so. The world is changing and not for the better.
The reason why he gets a flying that plane he graduated from the Air Force academy so basically he's in the Air Force