Unleashing horrifying firepower and raining death and destruction on to the communist forces in Vietnam from the dark skies above, the AC-47 fixed-wing gunship was the first of its kind. Giving cargo ...

Imagine camping in the dead of night, everything quiet—maybe too quiet. Now swap that peaceful campsite for a tense outpost in Vietnam, 1960s, and instead of stars, the sky lights up with streams of ...

As a close air support warplane, the AC-47 was an essential lifeline in the often close quarter combat of the Vietnam War. Originally developed in the 1930s, the C-47 Skytrain was the military variant ...

For nearly 60 years, the many different variants of the AC-130 have supported special operations and conventional troops in almost every battlefield that the U.S. military has found itself in. As the ...