Airplanes-gunships in Vietnam: The main caliber of the US Air Force"s special forces

During the Vietnamese War of 1965-1973. Almost all types of American aircraft were hunted by Viet Kong Trucks along the routes of supplying the Ho Shi mines-from jet “phantoms” to anti-Partizan “Bronko”, but 70% of the destroyed vehicles recorded “Hanship” aircraft. Rifle-gun weapons on them are installed across the fuselage along one side (this arrangement of the guns really causes an association with ancient sailboats-Gun Ship’s) The nature of the operations of special units of the US Air Force was sharply different from the tactics of the use of army aviation and it turned out that aircraft with low speed of flight, equipped, however, very complex on -board equipment, are most suitable for hostilities. The first Hanship (AC-47) was converted from the S-47 transport aircraft. In 1967, tests of an even more powerful AS-130, created on the basis of the S-130 Hercules transport aircraft, began