The AC-5

[kato13]

I found a reference to the following book series

http://jayfort.hubpages.com/hub/TheWingman

using a AC-5.

I can't resist a Google-fu challenge.

[Canadian Army]

Found this using my Google-fu

http://forums.spacebattles.com/threa...unship.125640/

[Panther Al]

Yep - the wingman series.


A not very good series of pulp mil-fiction that isn't very good, nor very plausible, but it does kill time when you can't do anything else.

Yes, I read them as I kid, but... yeah.

Very Very 70's mil fiction - lots of drugs and sex, that fuels everything.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

The CADS series was like that. I was ... 15? I think? when the books first came out; dad bought one at K-Mart (he'd head straight for the book wall and park himself there while mom shopped for clothes!) and brought it home. I blew through it in a single Friday night. Pretty terrible: lots of sex and violence.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

By the way there was a real AH-47; "Guns-A-Go-Go" I believe it was called. Buncha mini guns, rocket pods, .50 cals. Scary stuff.

[Raellus]

I find the idea of an AC-5 "Gun Galaxy" highly implausible. Compared to your RL AC-130, a C-5 is huge target, a real gas guzzler, and needs a relatively long, well-maintained conventional runway in order to operate. In a T2K setting these traits were become major weaknesses.

When I was a teenager living in Quito, Ecuador c.1988, American C-130s, C-141s, and C-5s would routinely land at the airport. My kid brother could identify any aircraft, civilian and/or military, coming in to land just by the sound of its engines. It was uncanny and quite impressive. The C-5 was by far the loudest of all them (even louder than the occasional 747 that would visit Quito) and could be heard well earlier too- even I could tell when it was coming. In a war zone, the red force could hear it coming from miles away, giving them time to ready their MANPADs and AAA. In such a hostile environment, a huge, loud, slow-moving AC-5 wouldn't last long.

[pmulcahy11b]

You know, one I've always thought would make a good gunship conversion: the G.222 (Alenia, IIRC).

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Raellus

I find the idea of an AC-5 "Gun Galaxy" highly implausible. Compared to your RL AC-130, a C-5 is huge target, a real gas guzzler, and needs a relatively long, well-maintained conventional runway in order to operate. In a T2K setting these traits were become major weaknesses.

Oh, I know the size and noise of the C-5. They're overhead all the time -- one tip that something is going on in the world is that the military transport comings and goings ramp up dramatically.

The first time a C-5 went over (at an illegally-low altitude, my guess would be), my then-puppy Shadow was in the backyard absolutely hugged the ground!

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Canadian Army

Found this using my Google-fu

http://forums.spacebattles.com/threa...unship.125640/

Boy, those guys really had their propellers on their beanie hats spinning!