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For the game, see Gunship (video game)
The term "
gunship" is used in several contexts, all sharing the general idea of a light craft armed with heavy guns.
In navy
In
navies, the term originally appeared in the mid-
1800s as a less-common synonym for
gunboat.
In military aviation
More recently, a "gunship" has been used to refer to
helicopters to which
machine-guns and similar
weapons systems have been mounted, or a
fixed-wing aircraft with heavy guns on board.
Another application of the term for military aircraft is more specific, describing a vehicle that's capable of circling its target instead of performing
strafing runs. According to such a definition, the
AC-130 Spectre/Spooky or the
AH-64 Apache are gunships.
Such other examples of fixed-wing aircraft are the
AC-47 and the
AC-119.
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