For six decades, the AC-130 gunship has stood as the ultimate symbol of American military might, a monstrous aerial platform where raw power and surgical precision meet. Adorned with massive cannons ...

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 ...