Shockingly, initial tests in the fall of 1980 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida were promising. The plane took off like a ...

The AC-130 is armed with a fearsome array of weaponry, including a 105 mm cannon and 25 or 40 mm gatling guns. The AC-130U employs a synthetic aperture strike radar for long-range and adverse ...

The AC-130 Spectre gunship is slow, big, and lumbering but still a vital piece of America’s CAS capability. In a permissive environment, there is no other platform that can apply precision fire ...