{"id":84621,"date":"2024-07-11T11:44:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-acj-130j-ghostrider-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:44:38","slug":"us-air-force-ac-130j-ghostrider-what-to-know-about-the-biggest-gun-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=84621","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider: What To Know About The Biggest Gun In The West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The AC-130J Ghostrider is an impressive gunship capable of bringing awesome amounts of firepower to bear. A number of epithets and superlatives are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2016\/10\/25\/meet-the-air-force-s-ultimate-battle-plane-and-your-new-close-air-support\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >used to describe<\/a> the Ghostrider, including &#8220;badass&#8221; and &#8220;<em>the most heavily-armed gunship in history.<\/em>&#8221; The AC-130J Ghostrider is the latest iteration of the AC-130 gunship family built on the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-130\/\">C-130 Hercules<\/a> transport aircraft to replace the Air Force&#8217;s aging fleet of AC-130U\/W gunships. The firepower of the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-ac-130j-ghostrider-arrives-south-korea-joint-exercise\/\">AC-130J Ghostrider was recently on display during military exercises in South Korea<\/a>.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AC-130J Ghostrider reigns as the king of modern gunships and will provide massed, concentrated fire for ground support for years to come.<\/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":[396,4490,6067,567,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-attack-aircraft","category-c-130","category-guides","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84621","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=84621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84666,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84621\/revisions\/84666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}