United States rocks drug boat with heavily-armed black ops plane

[mystery-ak]

United States rocks drug boat with heavily-armed black ops plane

U.S. Southern Command released footage earlier in the week of the latest narco-boat strike, and there's one clear difference from the previous strikes.

It wasn't carried out by a drone.

Instead, the footage seems to indicate an AC-130J Ghostrider took out the semi-submersible narco vessel.

The evidence for the Ghostrider being responsible is the spray of the rounds impacting on the water instead of a single bomb being dropped. Check out the truly stunning footage below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.

https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/2003303616963133694

Absolutely epic. While some might be complaining about these boat strikes, I can promise you I'm not losing a second of sleep over killing narco-terrorists. You see any fishing poles on that boat? Didn't think so.

As for the AC-130J, it's one of the coolest planes the United States has, and very few people know it exists.

It's a highly-advanced and shockingly heavily-armed variant of the AC-130 designed with one goal in mind:

Total obliteration of the enemy.

Open source intelligence indicated one arrived in the region months ago as the anti-cartel and Venezuela build-up began.

Now, it appears it's finally been put to work, and its weapons loadout is insane. The plane carries the Precision Strike Package, 30mm and 105mm cannons and a variety of different missile and bomb capabilities.


A look at an AC-130-J Ghostrider plane. (Credit: Master Sgt. Christopher Boitz/https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/467756/ac-130j-ghostrider/Public domain)

https://www.outkick.com/culture/boat-strike-ac-130j-ghostrider-video

[BobfromWB]

United States rocks drug boat with heavily-armed black ops plane

U.S. Southern Command released footage earlier in the week of the latest narco-boat strike, and there's one clear difference from the previous strikes.

It wasn't carried out by a drone.

Instead, the footage seems to indicate an AC-130J Ghostrider took out the semi-submersible narco vessel.

The evidence for the Ghostrider being responsible is the spray of the rounds impacting on the water instead of a single bomb being dropped. Check out the truly stunning footage below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.

https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/2003303616963133694

Absolutely epic. While some might be complaining about these boat strikes, I can promise you I'm not losing a second of sleep over killing narco-terrorists. You see any fishing poles on that boat? Didn't think so.

As for the AC-130J, it's one of the coolest planes the United States has, and very few people know it exists.

It's a highly-advanced and shockingly heavily-armed variant of the AC-130 designed with one goal in mind:

Total obliteration of the enemy.

Open source intelligence indicated one arrived in the region months ago as the anti-cartel and Venezuela build-up began.

Now, it appears it's finally been put to work, and its weapons loadout is insane. The plane carries the Precision Strike Package, 30mm and 105mm cannons and a variety of different missile and bomb capabilities.


A look at an AC-130-J Ghostrider plane. (Credit: Master Sgt. Christopher Boitz/https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/467756/ac-130j-ghostrider/Public domain)

https://www.outkick.com/culture/boat-strike-ac-130j-ghostrider-video

The really neat thing about the AC-130 planes is they can do their job at night from 10,000 feet, miles away from their targets, striking with precision.

[PeteS in CA]

30 mm and 105 mm shells are probably "cheaper" than Maverick missiles or unguided rockets.

[Fishrrman]

Chalk up another one...

[AL]

Good Shootin'  That musta been fun.