Players fight zombies with an AC-130 military cargo plane equipped with enormous machine guns.

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Players fight zombies with an AC-130 military cargo plane that can be equipped with a 105mm howitzer.

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The AC-130 gunship is designed for precise attacks in urban areas while providing close support for ground forces.

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The Americans say an AC-130 gunship attacked after four anti-aircraft guns were seen firing at US planes, including from the compound where the wedding party was hit.

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The three admired a level in Activision's 2007 first-person shooter Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which involved shooting bad guys from a very heavily armed AC-130.

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They requested a show of force by an F-15 fighter jet and AC-130 gunship, which launched warning flares toward the positions high above the commandos, the report concludes.

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For example, a just-completed investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned General Powell's judgment in agreeing to deny AC-130 gunships to the units sent to Somalia in a vain effort to capture Mohammed Aideed.

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The addition to the coalition's armoury this week of American A-10 Thunderbolts and AC-130 gunships, lumbering aircraft equipped with fearsome cannon that can hit targets in built-up areas with less risk than fast jets of killing civilians, could tilt the balance in Misrata and elsewhere.

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