AC-130J Ghostrider

Once called a ‘bomb truck with guns’ by the US Air Force, the AC-130J Ghostrider is a next-generation gunship with the tremendous advantage to engage ground targets silently and stealthily.

Incidentally, the Ghostrider also happens to be the most heavily armed aircraft ever built, carrying a standard 105-millimeter cannon, a smaller 30-millimeter GAU-23 A Bushmaster side-firing chain gun, and several types of state-of-the-art laser-guided missiles.

The Lockheed fixed-wing aircraft is also continuously updated with the latest technology, complete with the most requested weapons system in the history of warfare, making it the ultimate battle plane and the stuff of legends...
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