Military question about AC-130...?

The "Angel of Death" refers to one specific plane, Serial No. 54-1630, on display in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Named Azrael (Azrael, in the Koran, is the angel of death who severs the soul from the body), this aircraft figured prominently in the closing hours of Operation Desert Storm. On 26 February 1991, Coalition ground forces were driving the Iraqi Army out of Kuwait. With an Air Force Reserve crew called to active duty, Azrael was sent to the Al Jahra highway (Highway 80) between Kuwait City and Basra, Iraq, to intercept the convoys of tanks, trucks, buses, and cars fleeing the battle. Facing SA-6 and SA-8 surface-to-air missiles and 37 mm and 57 mm radar-guided anti-aircraft artillery the crew attacked and destroyed or disabled most of the convoys. Azrael was also assigned to the 919th Special Operations Wing and retired to the museum in October 1995.[33]

Angel because its in the air and its flares look like an angel when deployed.

Death because it kills people.

So that makes it the Angel of Death

It has wings, Can fly & kills the crap out of bad guys you call a air strike on. Was that brain surgery?

If your a bad guy, it a good way to meet your 72 virgins.....

Because it turns people on the ground into very small red pieces.

Because it kills people and its up in the air

Check these out and you'll figure it out in short order

http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strat...

http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strat...

http://www.military.com/video/aircraft/attack-and-...

http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strat...

its a gunship