The AC-130 aerial gunship is already one of the most recognizable modern planes ever to take to the skies in battle. The only thing that could possibly upgrade its cool factor any further would be ...

Modifications to Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) fleet of AC-130 gunships means that even if a planned August test of the new Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) system aboard an AC-130J ...

Lockheed Martin has delivered a high energy laser to the Air Force for testing on the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship. (Airman Kai White/Air Force) The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship just got a step closer to ...

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 Air Force’s family of AC-130 gunships has a 54-year history of delivering kick-ass close air support for ground troops in need, but a new weapon taken from science fiction could make the already ...

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 ...

“An analogue of American AC-130 aircraft directly supporting ground forces on the AC-130 battlefield is being developed in Russia,” according to Russian news agency TASS. “An advance design has ...