AC-47

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(PD) Photo: USAF
AC-47 gunship - one gatling gun points out the cargo door, and one each points out of the two windows forward of the door.

The AC-47 is a cargo plane that has high volume automatic weapons directed to fire perpendicular to the plane's flight.^[1] The weapons were mounted in the C-47 Skytrain, a plane essentially identical to the commercial DC-3. The plane's pilot would fly the plane so that it circled an area where enemy ground forces were believed to be located.

The planes first saw operational use in Vietnam.^[1]

Currently the United States Air Force fields planes with more advanced weaponry called the AC-130

References

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 "AC-47 “SPOOKY” GUNSHIPS: THE RECORD", United States Air Force. Retrieved on 2008-06-26.