BUFFs taking it to ISIS

So we blew up two buildings?

Forgot to add, they've done more than this but this is the only video that has been declassified so far.

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I was expecting to see some shock and awe type shite.

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Then your expectations are way to high for what this type of limited warfare is all about. Those expectations are also too high for what a single aircraft can do.

I'll frick somebody up myself if necessary.

I was thinking today when I saw that we were using B-52's with guided munitions, why not just use some AC-130's with 105's? Seems like it would be cost efficient for use against ISIS.

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why not just use some AC-130's with 105's? Seems like it would be cost efficient for use against ISIS

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Several reasons:

1) Can't get the same weapons effects
2) AC-130 is a very limited fleet and mostly support Special Ops only
3) AC-130s only operate at night due to their slow speed and vulnerability to MANPADs

There are more reasons, but those are just a few off the top of my head.

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Not really.

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Yes really. The weapons in that video were all unguided 500 lb bombs. Using those might look cool on a video, but would be completely ineffective against the targets that were in the video I posted. If you look at the second attack in the video I posted, the weapon that hit that building was a 2,000 lb penetrator-type JDAM (GBU-31v3) that is made to hit hardened targets. That weapon was probably coming in at around 1100-1200 feet per second. In your video, the weapons dropped from low altitude were high drag weapons and would have impacted at only around 300-400 feet per second and even the high altitude releases would have only been about 650-700 feet per second. Essentially, all of those would have been like throwing spitballs at the target in the video I posted.

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FlyingTiger06

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I always enjoy reading your posts about this kind of thing...

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Spankum

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Thanks.

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Army - Working with the Kurds in the North, moving into Kirkuk

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Copy, would have been my brothers/sisters from Minot operating out of RAF Fairford, UK. I was operating out of Diego Garcia and we were used pretty extensively in the southern portions of Iraq.