Gunship
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A gunship is a military aircraft armed with heavy aircraft guns, primarily intended for attacking ground targets either as airstrike or as close air support.
An AC-130H gunship from the 16th Special Operations Squadron
Some B-25 bomber variants were heavily armed with 75 mm and .50 caliber machine guns.
The AC-47 provided CAS with three port side mounted 7.62 mm miniguns.
The Mil Mi-24 was one of the first dedicated gunship helicopters.
Armed helicopter
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An armed helicopter is a military helicopter equipped with aircraft ordnance. Most commonly, it is used for attacking targets on the ground. Such a helicopter could be either purposely designed for a
An AH-64 Apache attack helicopter firing an AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile
HAL Rudra, an armed variant of the unarmed HAL Dhruv transport helicopter
A Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe of the U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division carrying a BLU-82/B bomb