South Korea: Flying aboard the AC-130J Ghostrider, carrying America’s biggest gun in the sky
CNNAbove the Korean Peninsula CNN — As the US Air Force AC-130J flies over South Korea’s towering apartment blocks, its powerful cameras can almost see inside windows on the highest floors. AC-130 gunners Joe Gipson and Isaac Dowell tend the 105mm cannon aboard a US Air Force AC-130J during a live-fire exercise over South Korea. CNN senior global military affairs writer Brad Lendon holds a 105mm howitzer shell aboard a US Air Force AC-130J gunship flying out of Osan Air Base, South Korea, in June 2024 Mike Valerio/CNN The mountain ranges and ridges of the Korean Peninsula present wind conditions not found elsewhere, he says, and that can make a difference even to a projectile traveling more than 800 mph. A 105mm howitzer is seen at the rear of a US Air Force AC-130J at Osan Air Base, South Korea, in early June 2024.
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