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How pilots train to fly the $165 million AC-130J Ghostrider gunship
The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship is the newest version of the historic AC-130 aircraft, which dates b…
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US Special Operations Command is working on a new weapon for its 'Ghostrider' gunship: lasers
For decades, the AC-130 gunship has been support troops on the ground with heavy firepower. In a fe…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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US Special Operations Command wants to transform its biggest planes to gain an advantage against China
To ensure US special operators can operate against a more capable enemy, SOCOM wants to give its bi…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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The AC-130 gunship has been backing up special operators for 55 years, and it's still popping up in new countries
"The sheer number of weapons options it brought to the battlefield was wild," a former Air Force co…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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After nearly 60 years in flight, US Air Force special operators took their AC-130 gunship to Australia for the first time
Since entering service in the late 1960s, the AC-130 has seen action all over the world, but the gu…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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A US Air Force Ghostrider gunship crew received awards for saving 88 lives with nearly 2 hours of non-stop fire
The heavily armed gunship poured fire on the enemy, clearing the way for helicopters to rescue woun…
Ryan Pickrell
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The Air Force's last AC-130U gunship, named 'Big Daddy,' made history before a flight this month
The Air Force is phasing out the AC-130U. Big Daddy will be the last to retire and will be placed i…
Airman 1st Class Hailey Ziegler, US Air Force
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One of the Air Force's biggest planes has helped pull off every major special ops mission since Vietnam
"We don't kick in any doors, but we enable the special operators on the ground to kick them," a for…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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To fight and survive in hostile airspace, US Air Force special operators may take the big gun off their 'Ghostrider' gunships
The US Air Force is gearing up for a conflict with adversaries who may challenge it in a way it has…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Caught in 'the green beam': How US Air Force gunship crews let a target know they have it in their sights
The AC-130's green beam is meant "to let the adversaries know that you see him," the head of US Air…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Air Force special operators face a 'particularly hard' transition after Middle East wars, top general says
"If it were easy, somebody else would would be able to do it," Lt. Gen. James Slife, AFSOC commande…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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How US special-operations forces helped the US military win its first post-Cold War victory
The first Gulf War was a textbook conventional war, but it featured an array special-operations mis…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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The Air Force is scrambling to train more pilots as new aircraft languish on the runway
"We are going to have to figure out a way to produce pilots that is outside the resource capacity o…
Christopher Woody
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The Army successfully tested a laser gun on an Apache helicopter
Laser weapons are unique in that humans can't hear or see them, which does not bode well for the en…
Daniel Brown
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The Air Force is looking for more information about laser weapons to use against drones
"Proposed systems must be robust and have integrated sensors used to find, fix, track, and target s…
Christopher Woody
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Maharashtra identified 14 districts as red zones— here’s the complete list of containment zones in Mumbai and Pune
Maharashtra, which accounts for the most number of infections in India, identified 14 districts as …