![]() ![]() Most fighters carry automatic cannons in the 20 to 30mm range, mostly for short-range air-to-air combat and strafing ground targets. The M102 howitzer is easily the largest gun flying on any existing warplane. ![]() Now, gunships routinely limit flight operations to above the range of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, about 12,000 feet or higher. Marines fighting in the Battle of Khafji. AC-130s used to fly lower, but an incident in the 1991 Gulf War saw a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile shoot down Spirit 03, a AC-130H gunship providing fire support to U.S. Leland WhiteĪir Force gunships typically circle over targets at high altitudes, drawing lazy circles in the sky to keep the side-firing weapons trained on targets below. ![]() The side-firing M102 105mm howitzer and GAU-23/A 30mm autocannon a AC-130W gunship. ![]()
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