Few aircraft in the U.S. military arsenal carry the fearsome reputation of the AC-130J Ghostrider. For decades, this heavily armed gunship has been the decisive edge for Special Operations Forces, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Air Force is deciding whether or not to begin removing the famed 105mm howitzers from its AC-130J gunships, possibly ...

SOCOM is trying to keep the Ghostrider alive in a peer fight by sending expendable autonomous killers into the threat ring before the crew has to enter it.

If some of the U.S. Air Force’s current aircraft are a rare sight, what about the retired warbirds that wrote history? It’s an honor to watch them conquer the sky once again, even if it is just to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US military has released an unusual video showing an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship conducting live-fire training the Caribbean.

Say what you want about air shows, but where else do you get to see airplanes from entirely different eras flying together? Heritage flights is how they call these amazing get-togethers, and later ...

Lockheed Martin has delivered a high energy laser to the Air Force for testing on the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship. (Airman Kai White/Air Force) The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship just got a step closer to ...

The U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider gunships are a constant presence in the CENTCOM AOR (Area Of Responsibility). The picture in this post shows an AC-130J Ghostrider being refueled at night by a ...

Plenty of U.S. combat aircraft strike fear into adversaries on the ground. Those include such warbirds as the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the B-52 Stratofortress, and of course the F-35 Lightning II. All can ...

The 58th Special Operations Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, celebrated the arrival of the AC-130J Ghostrider in a Sept. 5 ceremony. (Senior Airman Karissa Dick/U.S. Air Force) A storied ...

There aren't a lot of reasons why I wouldn't be mad to sit in traffic. If I had to throw a list together, though, I'd say waiting for a U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship to land on the pavement ahead of ...

One of the most fearsome planes in the U.S. Air Force arsenal is about to get a high tech upgrade. The service plans to test a laser weapon system aboard the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship in 2022, making ...