As the US Air Force AC-130J flies over South Korea’s towering apartment blocks, its powerful cameras can almost see inside windows on the highest floors. Aiming farther afield, the weapons officers on ...

Faculty from the Air Force Institute of Technology’s School of Systems and Logistics consulted on a study on the feasibility of reducing the AC-130J Gunship aircrew from nine to seven. Currently, a ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque is no stranger to seeing planes take to the sky and the newest, AC-130J Ghostrider model of the U.S. Air Force’s AC-130 gunship is no ...

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 ...