A big country also has to fight a little war, and a butcher also has times to shoot mosquitoes. You can't always take a pig-killing knife and shoot it in the face. So the classic famous aircraft C-130 transport aircraft evolved into the AC-130 air gunboat. Most military fans like fighter jets, strategic bombers, helicopter gunships and other domineering trucks. With exceptions, I love the ac-130 air gunboat. It's an aerial platform that satisfies a lot of my ideas. Various machine gun cannons were carried onto the large transport aircraft with a large fuselage. Hovering in the air for a long time, the ammunition tube is enough. Just think about it. The presence of a handle in the air.
Some military fans said that they encountered an army with a standard air defense system. This plane is a pill. Sorry when the enemy still has the ability to defend against air defense. This is not the time for gunboat machines to work. To fight the monster, you have to use the Green Dragon Crescent Sword. That's what the F-16s and Fa-18s did. The AC-130 was only able to stabilize the ground in the security war that followed. At this time, you use a cattle knife to kill chickens is far less useful than ac-130.
Where there is demand, there is a producer. In the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military was very troubled by a large number of scattered Vietnamese militias, villages, convoys and other targets, and it was much easier to deal with such small target guns than missiles, and it could be used in large quantities at a low price. So the U.S. military developed an attack aircraft with powerful firepower and a long time in the air. The US military soon carried out a large-scale modification of the C-130 transport aircraft, installed search and aiming devices and guns on the side of the door and cabin, increased the weapons pylon, and created the famous "air gunboat". At that time, only major cities in Vietnam had anti-aircraft firepower, and a transport aircraft with poor survivability was enough to deal with ground targets, causing huge losses to Vietnamese personnel, vehicles, and materials.
The AC-130 was never absent when the U.S. military engaged in the war. With its powerful firepower, the AC-130 easily destroyed a variety of light armored vehicles of infantry on the ground without fortification protection. That's how the horrors of the Angel of Death came about.