Opponents say the military can provide more efficient fire support on the battlefield by using precision-guided bombs or artillery fire from flying gunships like the AC-130.
In the rarefied world of space travellers, NASA's new astronaut class — seven men and five women, picked from a record-breaking eighteen thousand applicants — includes one, nicknamed "Jaws," who played basketball at M.I.T., is a Marine Corps major, and was decorated for flying Cobra gunships on a hundred and fifty combat missions in Afghanistan.
"He had a kind of a tough life, but he was a very good kid who just needed some stability in his life," said Wade Lieseke, a former sheriff and a twice-wounded Vietnam veteran who flew in gunship helicopters.
Buckle up, because soon you might be able to ride in real Mario Karts, fly Samus' gunship, and eat Jigglypuff-shaped cotton candy, because today Nintendo and Universal Studios announce a partnership that will bring the the gaming titan's iconic intellectual property into the IRL world of theme parks.
You drive tanks, fly gunships and shoot lots of guns at lots of aliens.
There were gunships flying around.
There were Algerian helicopter gunships flying overhead when the cars carrying the hostages left the accommodation area and drove towards the centre of the plant.
If so, that cleared the way for the next stage, which officials said would involve helicopter gunships flying low to find and attack forces allied with Al Qaeda.
With helicopter gunships flying overhead to cover them, a squad from First Platoon crossed several hundred yards of open ground and entered the compound, and found the dead Afghans, along with several others who had been wounded.
