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AC-130 Gunship

#1 Guest_Ribbon-Cobalt_*

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Posted 04 April 2008 - 02:43 AM

AC-130
- Gunship -

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- AC-130 Image A - AC-130 Image B - AC-130 Image C - AC-130 Image D - AC-130 Image E -

Origin: (Real World)
United States of America

Games Featured In:
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Operators:
Estovakian Air Force
Task Force 108
Yuktobanian Air Force

Notable Units:
Spooky 01 / Task Force 108 (AC:AH)

Variants:
C-130 Hercules

Armament:
2 x M61A1 20mm Vulcan (AC-130H)
1 x GAU-12/U 25mm cannon (AC-130U)
1 x Bofors L-60 40mm cannon (H & U)
1 x M102 105mm Howitzer (H & U)

Overview:
The Lockheed AC-130 is a heavily armed gunship developed from the C-130 Hercules. The AC-130 is used for Close Air Support (CAS), air interdiction, force interdiction and Counter Insurgency Ops (COIN). There are currently two active variants of AC-130, the "H" and the "U" versions; the H model is equipped with two M61A1 20mm Vulcan cannons, a single 40mm L-60 Bofors gun and an M102 105mm howitzer. The U model also carries the Bofors gun and the howitzer but has the two Vulcans replaced with a single 25mm GAU-12/U Gatling gun.

A proposed upgrade program would have replaced some of the armaments on the existing AC-130s; these upgrades included replacing the 25mm GAU-12 and the 40mm Bofors with two Mk 44 Bushmaster 30mm cannons. However, the program was ultimately scrapped and the old armament was retained.

Sources:
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (In Game Data)
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (In Game Data)
Wikipedia.org

Accreditation:
cbale2000 for providing the images.
Green_Giant for new image.
Ribbon-Vermilion for the AC6 image.
Venom - For updated info on the weapon upgrade program.
RoddH - Current image
Mr.P - Image E

#2 Green Giant

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Posted 22 December 2008 - 11:41 AM

Updated the article format.

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Posted 07 January 2009 - 09:24 PM

Personally, I think it's unfortunate that you don't get any of these on your side.

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 01:11 AM

Yeah, you can tell em' to "Bring the Rain"

Oh, and as an interesting side note, I took a chance to take a look at one of this beasts up close in AC5, turns out they have Osean markings. See for yourself.

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 01:48 AM

what? o_0 really, Yukes using Osean planes.

I'll be sure to check this out.

I wonder if anyone in the emulation community has rip any models from the AC series yet....

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 01:51 AM

Here's an idea for AC7 - allow the player to advance ranks, eventually being able to coordinate attacks using gunships like the AC-130 among other extra weaponry. That way we can have our flying cake and make it help us win, too.

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 01:58 AM

QUOTE (jetfreak @ Jan 7 2009, 07:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tsgt Epps, ftw!

That is interesting, it's possible that Namco was orginally going to have AC-130s that were also used by Osea, but then they decided to 'give' them to Yuktobania...but forgot to change the markings.

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 02:11 AM

Hmm... perhaps they were stolen by Belkan operatives? Maybe I'm giving Namco a bit too much credit on that; they aren't that committed to story details.

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 02:51 AM

I personally think Namco is lazy in some cases. Like how they make the F-4 unflyable in AC6 among other interesting planes.

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 08:39 AM

lol, someone might want to upgrade the article...
The plan to replace the 25mm Equalizer and 40mm Bofors has long been scrapped. The few planes that were converted with 30mm Mk 44 cannons had their 25mm and 40mm weapons re-installed due to poor performance of the 30mm several months ago.

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 12:19 PM

And the 120mm mortar too. Even though it would have put less stress on the airframe when firing then the 105. I think they decided to wait until they near 'bout used up all the remaining 105mm shells.

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Posted 08 January 2009 - 07:47 PM

Article updated.

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Posted 09 January 2009 - 03:14 AM

QUOTE (Demon Lord Razgriz @ Jan 8 2009, 07:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Actually it's kind of difficult to fire a mortar from an aircraft since you have to fire them frome the muxzzle end. And the AC-130's 105 used special low velocity rounds as to not rip the plane apart due to the recoil.

Note... The 105mm Howizter is still in use by the 82nd Airborne, so the rounds are still produced.

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Posted 09 January 2009 - 06:03 AM

QUOTE (Ribbon-Crimson @ Jan 8 2009, 10:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, I don't know how the 120mm mortar worked, but I don't think you needed to reload it from the muzzle. But as for the stress, the muzzle blast from the 120mm put 25% less stess on the airframe than the 105. There's a graph that shows it somewhere, I'll look for it tomorrow.

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Posted 14 May 2009 - 05:38 PM

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Posted 29 June 2010 - 05:33 PM

Main and Image A down.

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Posted 06 August 2010 - 11:07 AM

Image dead.

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Posted 28 February 2011 - 09:43 PM

Assault Horizon info added.

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Posted 13 April 2011 - 05:20 AM

Wtheck, the editor messed up again.

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