The 919th Special Operations Wing flew the AC-130A Spectre for 20 years, before transitioning to non-gunship aircraft, and will now operate the new ...

The U.S. Air Force plans to test an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship equipped with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. Adding an AESA would give these aircraft a valuable tool for spotting, ...

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 ...

Airmen assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing and 711th Special Operations Squadron prepare an AC-130J Ghostrider ...

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 ...

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 ...

Say what you want about air shows, but where else do you get to see airplanes from entirely different eras flying together? Heritage flights is how they call these amazing get-togethers, and later ...

The US military uses a variety of drones, attack aircraft and fighter jets in its campaign to attack suspected ...

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 ...

The US military has undertaken a campaign against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea using a variety of drones, gunships, and fighter jets, according to people ...

An AC-130J Ghostrider gunship aircrew received several medals this week for “extraordinary achievements” while providing close air support to ambushed and wounded U.S. and Afghan ground forces nearly ...