The term "gunship" is used in several contexts, all sharing the general idea of a light vessel armed with heavy guns. In navy, the term originally appeared in the mid-1800s as a less-common synonym for gunboat. More recently, a "gunship" is a helicopter to which machine guns and similar weapons systems have been mounted, or an airplane with heavy guns on board. (The etymology is that pilots often refer to their aircraft as "ships".) Examples include the AH-64 Apache and the AC-130 gunship. Many science fiction stories and games feature "gunship" as a class of armed spacecraft, although being imaginary there is no set rule for size or armament. ---- Gunship (game) is a computer game simulating helicopter gunships.
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The term "gunship" is used in several contexts, all sharing the general idea of a light vessel armed with heavy guns. In navy, the term originally appeared in the mid-1800s as a less-common synonym for gunboat. More recently, a "gunship" is a helicopter to which machine guns and similar weapons systems have been mounted, or an airplane with heavy guns on board. (The etymology is that pilots often refer to their aircraft as "ships".) Examples include the AH-64 Apache and the AC-130 gunship. Many science fiction stories and games feature "gunship" as a class of armed spacecraft, although being imaginary there is no set rule for size or armament. ---- Gunship (game) is a computer game simulating helicopter gunships.
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