AN AIR BASE IN IRAQ — The U.S. Air Force has begun moving heavily armed AC-130 airplanes — the lethal "flying gunships" of the Vietnam War — to a base in Iraq as commanders search for new tools to ...

The C-130 is a four-engine, turboprop-powered military transport. Several variants have been produced, including the AC-130 gunship and the KC-130 tanker. First flight of a C-130 occurred in 1954, and ...

America’s C-130 transport plane is one of the most iconic and reliable workhorses of the United States military. It first saw action in the Vietnam War, when the United States needed to transport ...

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