What I was told was that you can hear it's a chopper, and it fires in the characteristic way you see here—chain gun grenades salvo, followed by rockets, how they're trained to do. The AC-130 orbits much higher and does not have rockets (the AC-130's armaments only fire sideways). That's only what I was told. I'm not an expert for sure.
how do we know that?
What I was told was that you can hear it's a chopper, and it fires in the characteristic way you see here—chain gun grenades salvo, followed by rockets, how they're trained to do. The AC-130 orbits much higher and does not have rockets (the AC-130's armaments only fire sideways). That's only what I was told. I'm not an expert for sure.
The AC 130 has a side door. The gunship circles like a pirate ship in the sky.
Yes. But it doesn't fire rockets. We have rockets in this video.
There are both in the video