This was Turner's 1838 painting of a gunship that fought boldly in the Battle of Trafalgar.
Galindo said a helicopter gunship had participated in the shootout and that its role had been decisive: "If the helicopter had not arrived, the death toll might have been different".
Mr Wild accused the government of taking a "gunship" approach and ignoring his report's call to invest instead in better education.Memories of white paternalism linger in many communities.
And a matter of hours before the Washington encounter, Israel used a helicopter gunship to kill a senior Palestinian commander whom it blamed for several shooting attacks in which Israelis have died.
On January 7th and 8th, an AC-130 gunship of the Special Operations Command (flying out of the large American base in Djibouti) struck Islamist targets near the town of Afmadow in the bush of southern Somalia and again at Ras Kamboni, a peninsula on the border with Kenya (see map).
In 2001, an Iranian gunship ordered research vessels from Azerbaijan to retreat from a disputed oilfield.
Mr Zenawi's polished reputation abroad, for instance as a member of Tony Blair's Commission for Africa, will be badly damaged if he is found to have given the orders that led to the killing or to have had the ballot rigged.The case of a military helicopter crew who defected to neighbouring Djibouti with its helicopter gunship is murkier still.
So robust was the platform that one version even served during the Korean war as an aerial gunship.
What we got was a window into combat reality, through the sights of a helicopter gunship.
Unfavourable international attention was attracted in September when a Belarusian helicopter gunship shot down a hydrogen racing balloon and killed the two U.S. pilots.
There were tense encounters with Native Americans, including an armed attack on the town of Seattle in 1856; the presence of the gunship Decatur and the arrival of U.S. ground forces ended the confrontation.
