Modernizing The AC-130 Gunship How The USAF Keeps This Iconic Aircraft Combat-Ready

Other than perhaps a carpet-bombing strike by a B-52 Stratofortress (AKA the “BUFF”) bomber, no other conventional weapons system in the US Armed Forces arsenal symbolizes “Death From Above” for America’s adversaries quite like the US Air Force’s AC-130 fixed-wing gunship. It is the gun-toting iteration of the classic Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transport planeAKA “Spectre,” “Spooky,” “Stinger II,” or “Ghostrider” (depending upon the specific variant).