The Lockheed AC-130 is a C-130 cargo plane converted into a gunship. The port side of the AC-130 houses firing ports for an array of cannons, howitzers and gatling guns. AC-130 - Role The AC-130 is flown byUSAF Special Operations, mostly in the close air support role. Other roles...
The U.S. Air Force's new AC-130J Ghostriders have been flying combat missions in Afghanistan since June 2019. The gunships took over from AC-130U Spooky IIs that had been supporting U.S. and coalition special operations forces and their Afghan partners i
The AC-130J is the fourth and latest version of the gunship series sometimes nicknamed the “Angel of Death” for its withering amount of firepower. The aircraft first saw action during the Vietnam War. And the U.S. military frequently used AC-130s during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
We slaughtered ’em. As that night’s first AC-130 Spectre gunship intoLaos, we found trucks everywhere. In less than three hours we destroyed 21 and wrecked 15. Inside a booth in the gunship’s belly, we sensor operators felt as if we had been given free passes to a shooting gallery....
C-130 aircraftTwo problem areas of the AC-130E gunships were investigated and corrected during deployment to Southeast Asia. Modification were to the AAD-7 (forward looking infra-red sensor) tracking control system. These modifications improved the tracking ability of the sensor operator and ...
New Guns. This article presents information about the decision by the U.S. Special Operations Command (Socom) decision to base its future AC-130J gunship on a modula... Butler,Amy - 《Aviation Week & Space Technology》 被引量: 0发表: 2010年 ...
The U.S. Air Force's AC-130J Ghostrider took a stand against maritime aggression by sinking a fishing boat in the Philippines during Exercise Balikatan 2024.
US Air Force gunships trace their lineage back to the Vietnam War, when the service set up 7.62 mm guns to fire out one side of a C-47 transport aircraft. With that configuration, the aircraft could circle a single point and deliver massive, continuous ...