{"id":107245,"date":"2020-05-18T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/afsoc-to-finally-mount-a-laser-weapon-on-an-ac-130-gunship"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:28:11","slug":"afsoc-to-finally-mount-a-laser-weapon-on-an-ac-130-gunship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/afsoc-to-finally-mount-a-laser-weapon-on-an-ac-130-gunship","title":{"rendered":"AFSOC to finally mount a laser weapon on an AC-130 gunship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/afsoc-to-finally-mount-a-laser-weapon-on-an-ac-130-gunship.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After years of <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-tech\/ac130j-ghostrider-laser-cannon-funding\">funding woes<\/a>, Air Force Special Operations Command is on track to fire a high-powered laser weapon from an AC-130 gunship sometime in fiscal year 2022, officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles\/2020\/5\/13\/afsoc-on-track-to-demonstrate-airborne-laser-by-2022\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the Virtual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference last week, Air Force Col. Melissa Johnson \u2014 program executive officer for fixed-wing programs at SOCOM \u2014 stated that the command is inching towards strapping a laser weapon aboard an AC-130J Ghostrider following a series of studies and ground tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of funding woes, Air Force Special Operations Command is on track to fire a high-powered laser weapon from an AC-130 gunship sometime in fiscal year 2022, officials said. Speaking during the Virtual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference last week, Air Force Col. Melissa Johnson \u2014 program executive officer for fixed-wing programs at SOCOM [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}