This air-to-ground attack aircraft features advanced armament with new computer- directed gun systems. They then hauled up casualties the same way. Since the end of the Vietnam War, the AC-130 Spectre gunship has undergone several major modifications and upgrades in its performance, armament, and electronics. The planes could not land in the jungle, so flew tight orbits over a clearing and lowered supplies on a rope. They used small fixed-wing aircraft for supply and evacuation. This side-firing strategy grew out of a technique developed by the British Chindits in Burma in WW2. If you put them on the belly, you'd have to then aim them to the side - as far as they would go. The AC-130 became the Air Force's most successful 'truck-killer. Spectre gunship crews primarily flew night missions to stop enemy transportation on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. It first flew in combat in the fall of 1967. If you do this, you automatically present the side of the aircraft to the target, so it's the natural place to position your guns. However, the stretch of road that they had fired on quickly became known as the Highway of Death due to the enormity of the destruction caused that night. The AC-130 Spectre gunship was far more capable than the AC-47. Crew: Fourteen - five officers (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, fire control officer, electronic warfare officer) nine enlisted (flight. To do this you have to bank the aircraft (i.e., tilt it on its side). The aircraft is a highly modified C-130H featuring improved navigation, threat detection. The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily-armed ground-attack aircraft variant of the C-130 Hercules transport plane. Continuing the distinguished combat history of side-firing AC-130 gunships. The AC-130W Stinger II Precision Strike Package modification provides ground forces an expeditionary, persistent direct-fires platform that delivers precision low-yield munitions, ideally suited for close air support and urban operations. The only way to get a fixed-wing aircraft to loiter over a particular spot is for it to fly in a circle. The AC-130H Spectre and AC-130U Spooky II are Hercules transports that. Ride along and get an inside look at what it is. I think you've got this the wrong way round - you don't fly in circles because the guns are on the side the guns are on the side because you have to fly in circles. The Lockheed AC-130 Gunship is a weapons system that literally puts fear into the hearts of the enemy.
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