{"id":133486,"date":"2024-09-26T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/modernizing-usaf-ac-130-gunship\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T15:00:12","slug":"modernizing-the-ac-130-gunship-how-the-usaf-keeps-this-iconic-aircraft-combat-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=133486","title":{"rendered":"Modernizing The AC-130 Gunship How The USAF Keeps This Iconic Aircraft Combat-Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other than perhaps a carpet-bombing strike by a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-5-historic-missions-b-52-stratofortress\/\" >B-52 Stratofortress <\/a>(AKA the &#8220;BUFF&#8221;) bomber, no other conventional weapons system in the US Armed Forces arsenal symbolizes &#8220;Death From Above&#8221; for America&#8217;s adversaries quite like the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-reorganizing-wings\/\" >US Air Force&#8217;s <\/a>AC-130 fixed-wing gunship. It is the gun-toting iteration of the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/en-us\/news\/features\/history\/hercules.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules<\/a> transport planeAKA &#8220;Spectre,&#8221; &#8220;Spooky,&#8221; &#8220;Stinger II,&#8221; or &#8220;Ghostrider&#8221; (depending upon the specific variant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AC-130 Gunship is known as Death From Above for America&#8217;s enemies. Ever-developing technologies help preserve the warbird&#8217;s edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,6067,3214,627,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-c-130","category-guns","category-lockheed-martin","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133487,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133486\/revisions\/133487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}