Not even remotely. American fire power is a beautiful thing. Along with our locale, this is what helps keep us free from invasion. Now...how that might has been deployed in the past is what's gross.
Utterly gross. Everything about this is just awful.https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/968682187779223552 …
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Exactly, such a great response.
@shaunking has no clue how lucky he is to live in a country that allows him to protest whatever he wants and has a military with tools like this to protect his right to do so. agree with u , we need to be better about how/where we use these tools -
The military doesn't protect any person's right to protest dude. That's not our job.
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It really is, since the oath of enlistment says "...to uphold and defend the Constitution..."
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -Eisenhower
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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK
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Not that it matters... but I think those are flares. The plane fires them to draw heat seeking and target guidance fire away from them.
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It was dubbed the Angel of Death in the tweet.
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Because the smoke pattern left in the air behind the plane looks like angel wings.
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"death" though. Angel of "death" it says. "You don't want to be on the receiving end" it says. Is this thing on
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The AC-130 is a Gunship with a wide array of assault weaponry too. The video here is of the defensive flares that make the Angel wings shape. Here, in the movie "Transformers" the AC-130 is depicted in it's main role of protecting ground troops.https://youtu.be/LiQazjMVBMI
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The AC-130 reveals what kind of military the US really is. In any conventional war the AC-130 would be blown out of the sky in a second. Instead, it is a weapon of an imperial occupying force. Those it subjugated could never shoot it out of the sky given their limited means.
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Lockheed AC-130’s “large profile and low operating altitudes (around 7,000 ft) make it an easy target.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130 …
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“North Vietnamese antiaircraft missiles shot down an Air Force AC‐130 gunship over the Ho CM Minh Trail in southern Laos....”https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/30/archives/us-plane-downed-by-missile-in-laos-crew-of-14-missing-us-plane.html …
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During the Gulf War, "[a] lone Iraqi with a Strela-2 MANPADS" shot down an AC-130H on January 31, 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130 … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K32_Strela-2 …
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