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The Lockheed AC-130 Spooky/Spectre Gunship is a heavily-armed Ground Attack Aircraft variant of the C-130 transport plane. The basic airframe is manufactured by Lockheed, while Boeing is responsible for the conversion into a gunship and for aircraft support. The AC-130A Gunship II superseded the AC-47 Spooky and AC-119 Shadow during the Vietnam War.
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Battlefield 3
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The Gunship is a vehicle that appears in the Battlefield 3 expansion, Armored Kill. The pilot is AI controlled, and automatically patrols an area of the map by flying in its characteristic circles. The gunship also adjusts for altitude, as seen on Alborz Mountains.
Players can spawn into either of two gunner positions; one for a 25mm autocannon, and one for a large-caliber gun while both can use Zoom Optics. Both gunners can also access top-mounted 360 degree anti-aircraft guns as well as IR Flares. Players can also parachute out of the aircraft via the Gunship Paradrop spawn point as well a Vehicle Paradrop in Battlefield 3: End Game.
The gunship is vulnerable to enemy aircraft and anti-air weaponry, as it is quite slow and large. Engineer anti-air weapons inflict about 20% damage, while vehicle-mounted heatseekers do about 11% damage. It does not regenerate damage, but does have a high tolerance and plenty of health and does not disable.
ConquestEdit
Control of the gunship is determined by control of a base—when capturing, an aircraft icon will appear next to the base name, signalling that capturing the base will allow players to use the gunship. However, the gunship itself can remain in possession by the enemy until it is destroyed.
RushEdit
The gunship is available to the attacking team in Rush. It automatically advances to the next set of M-COMs, its center point slowly drifting into position. A patch was released that caused the gunship to only spawn at the start of the match and once every time a set of M-COM stations is destroyed.
ControlsEdit
PCEdit
- Select Primary
- Primary weapon (ground attack)
- Select Secondary
- Secondary weapon (anti-air)
- Cycle Weapons
- Switch weapon
- Fire
- Fire weapon
- Alt fire
- Toggle zoom
- Countermeasures
- IR Flares
- Enter/Exit Vehicle
- Exit gunship
- F2
- 25mm gunner position
- F3
- 105mm gunner position
Xbox 360Edit
- B
- Exit
- Y
- Switch weapon
- LB
- Countermeasures
- LT
- Toggle Zoom
- A
- Switch seats (if unoccupied)
- RT
- Fire Weapon
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Battlefield 4Edit
| Gunship | |
| Vehicle passengers |
• 3 gunners |
| Special feature(s) | |
| Main weapon |
105mm M102 cannon |
The Gunship returns in Battlefield 4 as a Commander resource. With team control over a certain control point, the commander can deploy the gunship where needed.
The gunship is briefly seen during the Battlefield 4: "Best Moments" Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer. It is also seen in the Battlefield 4: Official Commander Mode Trailer for a moment as if flies over the map Siege of Shanghai after it is called in by the Commander.
In alpha multiplayer gameplay, the gunship appears to carry four passengers: three gunners and one passenger.[1] It also appears that the gunship no longer carries the top-mounted anti-air batteries seen in BF3.
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TriviaEdit
- The AC-130 has USAF markings on its tail and wings, regardless of which team is operating it.
- The HUD of the 105mm gunner seat is similar to that of the M1A2 Abrams and M1128, particularly the aiming reticle.
- Interestingly, two AA guns are mounted on top of the gunship even though they do not appear on any variant of the AC-130 in real life. This is most likely done to counter the gunship's very slow speed and size, as without these the gunship would be taken out easily by any air vehicle.
- The period of time that the gunship takes to complete a full circle depends on the map size, ranging from 72–120 seconds.
- Strangely enough, if the gunship is spotted, the player will say that a jet is spotted.
- On PC, the controls for each position were originally hard-coded to default values, which may have confused players that customized their key bindings. The patch that corrected this removed Thermal Optics from the 105mm cannon position. Both seats now use day optics at all times. Splash damage from the 105mm cannon was also decreased against infantry.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ BF4 New Ammo Box Explained & Sniper Equipment (E3 Battlefield 4 Gameplay/Commentary - YouTube, retrieved 2013-06-13
