Real gun or not?

[Rocky Raab]

Fabs, that is a spectacular video clip of which you speak. But keep in mind that they only have a tracer in every FIFTH round. So that river of fire is actually five times as dense as it looks.

gd357, I stand corrected if there was/is a 5.56 version. The minis that were installed in the C-47 Puff the Magic Dragon (3 guns) and C-119 Spectre (5 guns) planes were 7.62 versions for certain.

I've also seen and flown in a C-130 Spooky gun ship. It was an early model with two 7.62 minis, two 20mm Gatlings and two 40mm Bofors cannon. Later models had two 20mm, a single 40 and a 105 howitzer!

From the ground, when one of these planes opens up, there is absolutely no warning. The ground just erupts like a deluge of rain on a pond, but the raindrops explode like mini-grenades (this from the 20mms). You don't hear the muzzle blast until after it's over, and that sound is like the moans of hell. It's appropriate.