Modifications to Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) fleet of AC-130 gunships means that even if a planned August test of the new Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) system aboard an AC-130J ...

Air Force Special Operations Command (Afsoc) is planning to buy a fleet of bombers to house its future gunship, breaking with a decades-old tradition of using C-130 transports to carry heavy fires ...

It looks like the next generation gunship is going to be based on a bomber, and not a transport aircraft like the C-130 pictured below. Amy Butler of Aviation Week & Space Technology has an excellent ...

USAF is acting on concepts to evaluate gunships of the future that would work as part of a combat package The US Air Force's Special Operations Command (AFSOC) has begun a one-year study of future ...

The combat laser for the AC-130J gunship is “rapidly moving” from the concept to the practice according to General Brad Webb, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command. Webb recently visited ...