I want to see more towel heads getting gunned down.

The Famous Gunship Video

Site traffic went way up (probably all GFY traffic) after I posted the long video clip of an AC-130 in action in Afghanistan. What was cool was that a former gunship crew member sent me a message and answered some questions I had about the plane and the weapons. Good news to the taxpayers, by the way: turns out it's relatively cheap to send one of those monsters into battle.

"I flew AC-130s (both H and U models) for 9 years, but have been 'flying the desk' for the last two.... The guy who said that we are dropping '$10,000 bombs' couldn't be farther off [NOTE: He's referring to the smartass comment my buddy Ollie made]. The 105mm is actually an exploding shell, or, in essence, a big bullet. Gunship 105mm has been stockpiled from old Army stores for decades (as the Army uses very few 105s these days). When I last checked, a 105 round cost the Air Force about $30 each. Once those stockpiles are exhausted and they have to contract out for new rounds, they will probably triple or quadruple in cost. Though that is still years away, it is still only about $100 per round. Had they used a single 'smart bomb' on that target, it would have cost about a quarter million dollars! Gunships are very economical and extremely accurate.

--Spiney