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re: Watched Blackhawk Down again the other night
Posted on 2/4/16 at 1:33 pm to 13SaintTiger
Posted on 2/4/16 at 1:33 pm to 13SaintTiger
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Also an AC-130 may have been overkill in that environment. CAS isn't all that common in urban environments during low profile missions.
It would have been better suited to facilitate the extraction than the little birds making gun runs all night long and into the next morning. Even though an area weapon, there are precision options on an AC-130 and it can orbit for a long, long time.
Once the sun went down, we could have picked off groups of the skinnies until they left our guys alone.
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Posted on 2/4/16 at 2:44 pm to Ace Midnight
Ace:
I'm going from past memory here, and I'm certainly not trying to challenge your bonafides, but were there even any AC-130s in Somalia at the time of the "Blackhawk Down" raid?
It's been a while, but I seem to recall reading that there had been gunships there prior to this particular raid, but they had rotated out some months earlier and not replaced. It might have had something to do with a TOW missile attack on a house that Aidid was supposed to have been in that killed a bunch of civilians. (From helicopter(s), not AC-130s, but politically motivated.)
I'm pretty sure that Garrison had requested armor and add'l air support but was overruled by the Pentagon or White House. IIRC, there was a previous helicopter shootdown that killed 3 or 4 U.S. crew before the two depicted in the movie. I know there was also an earlier incident where a UN ground force was attacked and ~20 Indian (or Pakastani or Bangdelis) troops were killed.
I'm going from past memory here, and I'm certainly not trying to challenge your bonafides, but were there even any AC-130s in Somalia at the time of the "Blackhawk Down" raid?
It's been a while, but I seem to recall reading that there had been gunships there prior to this particular raid, but they had rotated out some months earlier and not replaced. It might have had something to do with a TOW missile attack on a house that Aidid was supposed to have been in that killed a bunch of civilians. (From helicopter(s), not AC-130s, but politically motivated.)
I'm pretty sure that Garrison had requested armor and add'l air support but was overruled by the Pentagon or White House. IIRC, there was a previous helicopter shootdown that killed 3 or 4 U.S. crew before the two depicted in the movie. I know there was also an earlier incident where a UN ground force was attacked and ~20 Indian (or Pakastani or Bangdelis) troops were killed.
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