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The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance, ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft. It carries a wide array of ground-attack weapons that are integrated with sensors, navigation, and fire-control systems. Unlike other modern military fixed-wing aircraft, the AC-130 relies on visual targeting.
The two prototype YC-130s, AF Serial Numbers 53-3396 and 53-3397, were built at the Burbank, California plant, and were given c/ns 1001 and 1002.Production Hercules have all been built at the Lockheed-Marietta, Georgia plant, and began their c/ns at 3001 (USAF 53-3129, still extant at the Air Force Armament Museum).
A United States Air Force Lockheed C-130B Hercules aircraft was shot down on May 12, 1968, during the Battle of Kham Duc in Vietnam. Everyone on board, 150 Vietnamese civilians, one U.S. Special Forces officer, and 5 U.S. Air Force crewmen, [1]: 138, 139, note 95, 96 were killed.
According to the U.S. military, the presence of U.S. special operations personnel in the targeted base elicited a response by coalition aircraft, including AC-130 gunships, F-22 Raptor and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets, MQ-9 Reaper unmanned combat aerial vehicles, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, and B-52 bombers.
The AC-130J is a fifth-generation gunship, according to a fact sheet provided by the U.S. Air Force. This series of planes has extensive combat history dating back to Vietnam where gunships ...
1958 C-130 shootdown incident; 1965 Hong Kong US Marines KC-130F Crash; 1969 theft of C-130; 1976 Venezuelan Air Force C-130 crash; 1981 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash; 1991 Jakarta Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash; 2009 Indonesian Air Force L-100 crash; 2015 Sumatra Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash; 2016 Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash
On 23 January 2020, a Lockheed EC-130Q Hercules, owned by Coulson Aviation, crashed while aerial firefighting for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service during Australia's black summer bushfires.
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