KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Heavy air cannons pounded Osama bin Laden s allies in their headquarters city as U.S. pilots brought a special-forces gunship into action against Afghanistan s Taliban.

No matter the variant, the AC-130 is jam-packed with the sort of weaponry one would expect to find on a “gunship.” The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is somewhat pedestrian as far as military aircraft goes—a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has positioned special operations forces for another kind of assault on terrorism following several days of bombing against the Taliban military, defense officials ...

During the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force's first gunship, the AC-47, was introduced. It was primarily created to be able to unleash steady, accurate, and constant streams of fire on ground ...