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AC-130.jpg

Courtesy of the USAF, an AC-130 deploys anti-missile flares near Hurlburt Field, FL. The flares distract incoming enemy surface-to-air missiles presumably by making the AC-130 appear totally effin' radical.

-John Noonan

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Posted by: luxury watch at April 17, 2009 10:12 PM


I'd just like to find a nice cache of 1941 Johnson Semi-Automatics in the Army inventory and get one of our do-nothing legislators we pay so much, to demand they be transfered IMMEDIATELY and without delay or damnage, directly to DCM/CMP for sale to qualified colectors & shooters! A fair price for one directly out of storage would be $1,000. to $1,500 apiece. I buy one right now!

They DID buy 50,000 of them during WW-2, and most of them were recalled because they decided to go with the M-1 Garand. Okay,.. Soooo... where did the all the 1941 Johnson's go? Kennedy is rumored to have armed some of the Bay of Pigs troops with them, but that wasn't that many troops.

Cuba probably still has a bunch. Commies never trough anything away. Remember all the lugars & Broom handle Mauser's that showed up when the wall fell? Same thing here. Fidel still as them stored away and would sell them to us if he could.

As far as our government, Someplace, in some deep dark, weapons depot warehouse, we have GOT to have the rest of them stored away. AND I WANT ONE!!!!

JD

Posted by: Jeff Dulin at September 6, 2008 09:30 PM


@ david: nice one! Those stored old weapons will be great fun when the zombies/robots/mutants/extremists/aliens/russians finally attack.

Posted by: Macaca at September 5, 2008 01:09 PM


Great Pic, even better caption!

Thanks John!

Posted by: Grandjester at September 4, 2008 11:08 AM


As an artilleryman it was quite common during live fire exercises to use primers, powder, or even shells in some instances made in the 50's. It seemed a bit risky, but they always went bang.

Posted by: B52U at September 4, 2008 11:06 AM


I think they'll find the Ark of the Covenant in one of those warehouses one day.

Posted by: Brian at September 4, 2008 10:20 AM


Read something interesting about the 40 mm guns of these gunships. Those exploding shells go for 200 bucks each. so you really don't want to use them for target practice. Recently they looked around in some old storage bunkers and found a big load of armor piercing 40 mm shells left over from world war two! Not much use in todays combat put a cheap souce of amo for target practice. The shells were still in their boxes and the boxes in wooden grates. The amo was stored in underground bunkers were the temp is always between 57 and 62 degrees. so the airforce is using 68 to 70 year old ammo with no trouble. A couple of years ago i read that they were using 50 cal ammo in Irag that the aiforce had stored away since WW2. Remeber in the first gulf war the tv showed 16 inch shells being fired by the battleships with labels that read delivered 1936! Makes you wonder what else is stored away both here and abroad left over from WW2? cases of brand new Bar's, thompson sub machine guns, flame throwers or garand M-1's?

Posted by: david at September 4, 2008 09:50 AM


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