An AC-130U Spooky Gunship from the 4th Special Operations Squadron jettisons flares over an area near Hurlburt Field, Florida, on August 20, 2008. (Air Force) An AC-130W Stinger II, one of the newest ...

Since the mid-1960s, AC-130 gunships have provided close air support for troops all over the world. The AC-130's utility and effectiveness created a dynasty that's now on its sixth version. "The sheer ...

During the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force's first gunship, the AC-47, was introduced. It was primarily created to be able to unleash steady, accurate, and constant streams of fire on ground ...

The U.S. military operates many military transport aircraft, but one of the most impressive is the C-130 Hercules, which entered active service in 1954. The aircraft can transport everything from ...

Key Point: Once the gunship is upgraded, the AC-130 will become an integral part of U.S. overseas operations. The historic, lethal and combat-tested AC-130 gunship — known for attacking ISIS and ...

Planned flight testing of a high-energy laser directed energy weapon on a U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has been pushed back again to next year. This once looked set to be the service's ...

A bouquet of flowers stood in the bright sunshine atop a plaque at Hurlburt Field last Friday, where the 1st Special Operations Wing hosted a ceremony in remembrance of the largest single loss of life ...

One of the most fearsome planes in the U.S. Air Force arsenal is about to get a high tech upgrade. The service plans to test a laser weapon system aboard the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship in 2022, making ...

No matter the variant, the AC-130 is jam-packed with the sort of weaponry one would expect to find on a “gunship.” The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is somewhat pedestrian as far as military aircraft goes—a ...

The video starts with aircrews loading 105mm howitzer shells into the aircraft for a training mission. The M102 is an older Army light field howitzer, designed to provide indirect fire support for ...

An Air Force AC-130 gunship destroyed a truck on Tuesday in Western Iraq after the aircraft’s crew watched Iranian-backed militia fighters use the vehicle to launch a ballistic missile attack on U.S.