The current fixed armament configuration of the AC-130J includes a 30mm GAU-23/A Bushmaster automatic cannon and a 105mm howitzer, both firing out the left side of the fuselage. There are no plans to ...
Plenty of U.S. combat aircraft strike fear into adversaries on the ground. Those include such warbirds as the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the B-52 Stratofortress, and of course the F-35 Lightning II. All can ...
What You Need to Know: The U.S. Air Force has shifted AC-130J Ghostrider training from Hurlburt Field, Florida, to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, consolidating training and reducing costs. -The ...
The AC-130J was used in a Close Air Support role during a training mission with ROKAF KF-16s, which also dropped Paveway laser-guided bombs. A USAF (U.S. Air Force) AC-130J Ghostrider gunship aircraft ...
U.S. Special Operations Command originally planned to buy 37 AC-130J Ghostriders to replace three older gunships: the AC-130H Spectre, AC-130W Stinger II and AC-130U Spooky. It now plans end the ...
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 ...
One by one, the cargo planes sped down the lone runway and out of Kabul. Hours earlier, chaos at Hamid Karzai International Airport in August 2021 threatened to keep the C-17s — and the hundreds of ...
U.S. Airmen with 73rd Special Operations Squadron fire the 105mm cannon aboard an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship during exercise ...
A military warplane nicknamed the "Angel of Death" will swoop over the Indiana skies later this month to unleash "controlled fury," officials said. Don't be alarmed though. It's all part of an aerial ...
A release of a presolicitation notice on Oct. 6 means U.S. Special Operations Command is tidying up details of a planned demonstration for a 60-kW higher energy laser on a Lockheed Martin AC-130J ...
The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship is the newest version of the historic AC-130 aircraft, which dates back to the Vietnam War. Unlike C-130s, which are meant to carry cargo and troops, the AC-130, the ...
UPDATE: The aerial gunnery training exercise scheduled for Dec. 28, 2023 was cancelled that same day due to inclement weather, according to a spokesperson for Camp Atterbury on social media. IndyStar ...