A U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider gunship struck a vehicle Tuesday near Baghdad involved in recent attacks on the Al-Asad airbase in Iraq, a U.S. official told The War Zone Tuesday. It was the first ...

From the deserts of Iraq to today’s Special Operations exercises, the AC-130 gunship has defined American close air support for more than six decades. During the Gulf War, one Spectre stayed over ...

For more than 60 years, the AC-130 gunship has delivered unmatched firepower from the skies, evolving from its Vietnam War origins into one of America’s most feared battlefield aircraft. Armed with ...

AN AIR BASE IN IRAQ — The U.S. Air Force has begun moving heavily armed AC-130 airplanes — the lethal "flying gunships" of the Vietnam War — to a base in Iraq as commanders search for new tools to ...

An unknown number of terrorists were killed in Iraq Tuesday after they fired on U.S. troops in the western portion of the country and were met with return fire by a U.S. military AC-130 gunship. U.S.

U.S. forces Tuesday hit a militant base in Iraq with an AC-130 gunship after Iranian-backed groups attacked American troops in the country this week in the latest tit-for-tat exchange in the Middle ...

AN AIR BASE IN IRAQ — The U.S. Air Force has begun moving heavily armed AC-130 airplanes — the lethal “flying gunships” of the Vietnam War — to a base in Iraq as commanders search for new tools to ...