Afghanistan Gets Spooky Ghostriders as the AC-130H Retires

For more than 40 age , American ground forces have relied on the AC-130 gunship for protection and secretive air support . However , the venerable AC-130H Specter var. , which has been deployed in every major combat surgical process since Vietnam , is start to show its age .

As such , the Air Force ’s 16th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron has recently announce that they ’ll be sack out the Specters from fighting this yr in favor of the new AC-130U Spooky ’s and AC-130J Ghost Riders . Ride along with the flight crew of an AC-130H on one of its final mathematical process in Afghanistan in the video above .

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