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A helicopter that decided being a vehicle was beneath its ambitions.
means A heavily armed military aircraft, usually a helicopter, built to attack ground targets with guns, rockets, and missiles.
from From gun plus ship, borrowing the nautical naming for warships; Vietnam-era armed helicopters made the word fly.
Fixed-wing tooThe AC-130 gunship fires sideways from a plane.
ApacheThe AH-64 carries a chin-mounted 30mm cannon.
Naval rootsTerm first meant armed riverboats, not aircraft.