{"id":50863,"date":"2023-03-18T02:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T01:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50863"},"modified":"2023-03-21T07:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:10:29","slug":"an-ac-130j-ghostrider-special-operations-aircraft-razes-an-islet-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/18\/an-ac-130j-ghostrider-special-operations-aircraft-razes-an-islet-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"An AC-130J Ghostrider special operations aircraft razes an islet in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a famous military transport aircraft that has a powerful gunship version, the AC-130, which made its appearance in 1966.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/04\/sky-warden-the-agricultural-plane-chosen-by-the-us-special-operations-command\/\">Sky Warden: the agricultural plane chosen by the US Special Operations Command<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/19\/farewell-to-the-ec-130j-commando-solo-iii-the-plane-of-the-usaf-for-psychological-operations\/\">Farewell to the EC-130J Commando Solo III, the plane of the USAF for psychological operations<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the United States Air Force (USAF) has in service <strong>the armed version of the C-130J Super Hercules: the AC-130J Ghostrider<\/strong>. The development of this version began in 2011 on 16 MC-130J Combat Shadow II special operations aircraft. The first AC-130J was delivered in 2015, and the last of them was received by the USAF in November 2022, totaling 31 units.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These aircraft are part of the USAF Special Operations Command (AFSOC)<\/strong> and are divided into three Special Operations Squadrons: the 4th and 7th, both based at Hurlburt Field (Florida) and the 17th, based at Cannon AFB (New Mexico). As their name indicates, <strong>the mission of these squadrons is to support the special operations groups of the USSOCOM<\/strong> (United States Special Operations Command).<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52754565405_f64aefcbcd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">One of 31 AC-130J Ghostriders of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afsoc.af.mil\/About-Us\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/2547234\/ac-130j-ghostrider\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFSOC<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><strong>These planes carry a crew of nine people <\/strong> (pilots and weapon systems operators) and are equipped with <strong>a 105mm cannon and a 30mm machine gun on the port side of its fuselage<\/strong>. In addition, they have weapon racks under their wings in which they can carry <strong>GBU-39 SDB guided bombs, GBU-69 loitering munitions, and AGM-114 Hellfire and AGM-176 Griffin missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, <strong>the AC-130J Ghostrider was deployed for the first time in South Korea<\/strong> to take part in the Teak Knife exercise, during which the US aircraft was able to demonstrate all its firepower by destroying an islet South Korean used as a target for military exercises.<strong> You can see here the impressive video of the exercise published by<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SouthKoreanMilitaryChannel\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Korea Defense Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AC-130J Ghostrider gunship gunnery in South Korea | Exercise Teak Knife 2023\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DDcIyfSwnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video we can see that <strong>this AC-130J Ghostrider was equipped with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles under its port wing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52754384229_6231aacb00_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we can see <strong>an image of the launch of one of those missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52754547730_61377517d7_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under its starboard wing, <strong>the AC-130J Ghostrider carried GBU-39 SDB bombs.<\/strong> Here we see the moment of its release. These bombs deploy small wings that guide them towards their target. They can be guided by laser, infrared or radar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52754629453_4b57d3ae03_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here we see the shots from the 30 mm cannon.<\/strong> In the video you can see the impacts on the islet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52753601157_1a802ef97f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afsoc.af.mil\/About-Us\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/2547234\/ac-130j-ghostrider\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFSOC<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a famous military transport aircraft that has a powerful gunship version, the AC-130, which made its appearance in 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,17021],"tags":[8306,9792,18774,6556,8133,6761],"class_list":["post-50863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-special-forces","tag-agm-114-hellfire","tag-lockheed-ac-130-spectre","tag-lockheed-ac-130j-ghostrider","tag-lockheed-c-130-hercules","tag-lockheed-martin-c-130j-super-hercules","tag-united-states-air-force-usaf"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 08:00:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}