The AC-130J Ghostrider’s Precision Strike Package combines sensors, targeting systems, and side-firing weapons to deliver ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Air Force has shifted AC-130J Ghostrider training from Hurlburt Field, Florida, to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, consolidating training and reducing costs. -The ...

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 ...

U.S. Special Operations Command originally planned to buy 37 AC-130J Ghostriders to replace three older gunships: the AC-130H Spectre, AC-130W Stinger II and AC-130U Spooky. It now plans end the ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque is no stranger to seeing planes take to the sky and the newest, AC-130J Ghostrider model of the U.S. Air Force’s AC-130 gunship is no ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has completed the installation of a new countermeasures system aboard a Lockheed Martin AC-130J Ghostrider gunship of the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The ...

An AC-130J Ghostrider lands at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa March 29, marking the first time the updated J model of the AC-130 has landed in or operated in Japan. (Capt. Renee Douglas/Air Force) A U.S.