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Close Air Support Debate: We Go Inside an AC-130 to See if the Gunship is Still Relevant

December 13, 2017 Tom Demerly

The AC-130 Spectre Gunship Still Plays a Critical Role in America’s Close Air Support Capability. It is large, slow and vulnerable to air defense systems including increasingly effective man-portable SAMs. It can also deliver withering […]

Iraq

Watch an AC-130W Gunship refuel over Iraq and then disappear into the night

April 2, 2016 David Cenciotti

The best part is when the gunship disappears into the night. The following footage was filmed from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 from the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron as it refuels an AC-130W over […]

Military Aviation

How the AC-130 destroyed at least 20 vehicles per night during Vietnam War

July 28, 2014 Dario Leone

During the early days of Vietnam Conflict, the US developed a special kind of attack aircraft to stop the flow of enemy troops and supplies: the gunship. The Gunship aircraft, born from the conversion of […]

Military Aviation

AC-130H Spectre gunship’s final mission

January 31, 2014 David Cenciotti

On Jan. 16, the 16th Special Operations Squadron conducted its final mission with the AC-130H gunship at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. To celebrate the retirement of the Spectre, whose development began in the […]

Military Aviation

[Photo] The effect of Florida’s freezing rain on U.S. Air Force AC-130U gunship

January 29, 2014 David Cenciotti

Florida is experiencing unusually cold temperature. High winds and freezing rain, brought by a winter storm coated aircraft in a layer of ice. These images, taken on Jan. 29, 2014, say it all. Since quite […]

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